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Thursday Mussing from Annabell

ELECTIONS
Beta blockers were the order of the day for Labor types in Canberra as Anthony Albanese — riding queasily on a new poll suggesting his lead is melting fast — arrived at the National Press Club for the traditional final-week address. For the first time in 50 years, this engagement will...
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Budget repair starts with grants

ECONOMY
Andrew Brown, AAP writes in Crikey Anthony Albanese says axing $750 million in government grants will go some way to repairing the budget left in a mess by the Liberal-National coalition. In a speech to the National Press Club in Canberra just three days before the election, Mr Albanese said an...
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The Big Gas Con – how fossil fuel giants are cheating Australia’s emissions system

ECONOMY
by Callum Foote | May 15, 2022 | An unholy alliance of carbon farmers and Big Gas lobbyists are quietly shaping Australia’s emissions reduction framework to maximise their take of taxpayer money while increasing emissions as much as possible. Callum Foote follows the money. It’s a perfectly devious plan by the cabal...
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I have not seen an Australia so bereft of trust in its politicians, so cynical of their motives and their promises as it is...

ELECTIONS
Kerry O'Brien writes A strong, independent public broadcaster, with its governing board appointed at arms-length from executive government, and funded by and accountable to a healthily functioning parliament, is a gift to democracy. When Australia achieved nationhood in 1901 it had already become a land of newspapers and has retained...
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The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery

POLITICS
The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery The latest ruling in the trial of the former ACT attorney-general effectively liberates Australia's intelligence agencies from judicial oversight. Opinion / Politics The legal playing field has tilted sharply against Bernard Collaery The latest ruling in the trial of the former ACT attorney-general...
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Integrity policy Where do the parties and candidates stand?

ELECTIONS
Over the past weeks it has been mostly confusing. Distorted by bullshit, bravado, macho statements from his and his fawning self-interest groups. Ginormous pork barreling, look-at-me-photo-ops and all the rest of the political crap driving me and perhaps you nuts. Here is a reason to STOP, Gather your thoughts and...
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Renovate or detonate? Morrison opts for latter with late campaign bombshell

ECONOMY
David Crowe The Sydney Morning Herald's Chief political correspondent writes Scott Morrison has gained the political fight he wanted by promising a housing policy that the superannuation industry, the union movement and Labor cannot abide. This is a culture war on the economy that energises the Liberal base and gives the...
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Every ‘bricks and mortar’ intervention results in the same thing: higher prices, not greater ownership

ECONOMY
Saul Eslake writes in CrikeySaul Eslake is an independent economist, company director and public policy advisor. We now have almost 60 years of unambiguous and unequivocal evidence telling us that anything that allows Australians to pay more for housing than they otherwise would –- first homeowner grants, stamp duty...
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Minister concedes super home deposit plan will push up house prices

ECONOMY
Dominic Gianinni / AAP writes in INQUEENSLAND The Coalition’s housing policy has been rubbished as one of the worst in 30 years while a government minister has admitted house prices would temporarily go up in the short term as a result of the scheme.Federal Labor has also attacked the government’s new...
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Opinion / Politics The Liberal Party is beyond reform. That’s why this former Liberal minister says you should vote independent

ELECTIONS
Ian Macphee writes in Crikey Independent candidate for Goldstein Zoe Daniel (Image: Voices of Goldstein/Facebook) Ian Macphee served as the Liberal member for Goldstein for 16 years between 1974 and 1990, and was a minister during the Fraser government. I once intended this article to be about how the Liberal Party could reform itself...
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