More Mussings from Annabel
ABC's Annabell Crab writes on her blog
Liberal leader Scott Morrison wants to let first homebuyers crack into their super to free up funds for home buying.
Labor...
Every ‘bricks and mortar’ intervention results in the same thing: higher...
Saul Eslake writes in CrikeySaul Eslake is an independent economist, company director and public policy advisor. We now have almost 60 years of unambiguous...
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...
