Dan Ryan Flat White Getty Images Dan Ryan 3 February 2025 5:50 PM The Australia Day debating season has now finally, mercifully, come to an end for another year. It is clear the right and left in this country have very different perspectives about how January 26, 1788 – the date a new British colonyContinue reading “Australia’s founders understood MAGA better than today’s centre-right”
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Ghosts of premiers past: Queensland’s budget is a fiscal horror show
Judith Sloan The Australian January 23, 2025 Once upon a time – OK, a very long time ago – public finances in Queensland were extremely well-managed. Public sector superannuation was fully funded, recurrent budget surpluses were the norm and there was limited government debt. The state’s credit rating was an unquestioned AAA. It began toContinue reading “Ghosts of premiers past: Queensland’s budget is a fiscal horror show”
John Howard, Peter Costello lash Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers’ budget mismanagement
Troy Bramston The Australian December 31, 2024 John Howard has warned that Australia’s deteriorating budget bottom line and escalating debt could put the nation’s credit rating at future risk, while Peter Costello has lashed Treasury as an institution in decline that no longer defends taxpayers against spendthrift governments. The former prime minister and treasurer criticisedContinue reading “John Howard, Peter Costello lash Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers’ budget mismanagement”
Did you just have a tight Christmas? Blame Labor’s reckless spending spree
Saxon Davidson The Herald Sun December 25, 2024 Like a disappointed parent at Christmas dinner, MYEFO delivered some home truths to Jim Chalmers he has been seeking to avoid during his time as federal Treasurer. With forecast deficits of $143 billion across the forward estimates, and federal government debt set to soar to $1.16 trillionContinue reading “Did you just have a tight Christmas? Blame Labor’s reckless spending spree”
Economist says Australia is in recession, with private sector being ‘clobbered’ by Labor’s extreme immigration policy
Date: December 5, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 20 Comments Australia’s Labor Party Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers sends the country broke, has not held a real job in the private sector From Macrobusiness The head of Deloitte Access Economics, Pradeep Philip, gave one of the best summaries of Wednesday’s Q3 national accounts release from the Australian BureauContinue reading “Economist says Australia is in recession, with private sector being ‘clobbered’ by Labor’s extreme immigration policy”
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