Minister concedes super home deposit plan will push up house prices
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...
Opinion / Politics The Liberal Party is beyond reform. That’s why...
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...
The erosion of Medicare
Charles Maskell-Knight writes in Pearls and Irritations
Large out-of-pocket costs for specialist consultations driven by inadequate indexations are undermining Medicare.
When Medicare was introduced in 1984...
Superannuation for houses is a bad policy
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian
If the 2022 contest is between a bulldozer and a builder, it makes sense that the final act of...
Make your vote count
First-past-the-post
Elections that use a simple majority, or first-past-the-post, system elect a candidate who has received the most number of votes in a contest following...
Morrison ramps up class war with intergenerational wealth shift — yet...
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey May 15, 2022
Scott Morrison has made senior homeowners the centre of the federal Liberal election launch, promising to allow...
Yellow-bellied ‘moderates’
Rachel Withers writes in The MonthlyFor weeks now, the increasingly shrill “moderate” Liberals have been demanding to know who the teal independents would support...
Strawmen and slippery slopes: how to spot politicians tinkering with the...
The Guardian's Susan McDonald writes
As a magician’s audience suspends its disbelief, in Australia’s parliament you aren’t allowed to call someone a liar. But in...
How to use Google Lens on your iPhone or iPad
By techradar's Chris Rowlands
(Image: © Future)
Taking a moment to figure out how to use Google Lens on your iPhone or iPad is...
The track record of Peter Dutton’s incompetence
By Michael McKinley
Failing up is a common phenomenon in many organisations – not least those concerned with national defence and security.
It is too often...
