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2.3KEconomyWhat might have been … Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism won it for Trump …
*Pic: Leunig, http://www.leunig.com.au/works/cartoons . Used with permission … Pic: Gage Skidmore, Twitter, here Donald Trump leads the free world today because the...
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1.2KEconomy
Tall poppies: Yesteryear and today
Australians excel at cutting down tall poppies. Very few know that an Australian might have been the first Secretary-General of the newly-created...
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1.2KEconomy
Tasmanian Federal Liberal’s Bitter Harvest: Parts 1 & 2
With the AEC declaring the Senate results for Tasmania and the Northern Territory on Tuesday 27 July 2016, the loss of the...
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1.2KEconomy
End of an empire
*Pic: Boris Johnson as Neville Chamberlain … Pic by cogito ergo imago, Flickr The world’s geo-political axis has been turned topsy-turvy as...
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1.1KEconomy
Why a drover’s dog* will win the next federal election
The Conservative ‘Brains Trust’: Joe Hockey, Tony Abbott, Julie Bishop, Warren Truss … “The economy, stupid”. Remember that phrase that propelled Bill...
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Tasmania faces a budget emergency
*Pic: ABC Tasmania is experiencing a further $44 million blowout, bringing the 2013/14 FY deficit to $398.7 million:Mercury here Prior to that...
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NATION: Abbott’s flight of fancy
Our Prime Minister Tony Abbott is trying to have his own ‘Port Arthur’ moment. The trouble is, unlike Howard, he doesn’t control...
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NATION: Unemployment hits highest since 2002. Hewson warning. Abetz, Visa fraud …
Latest ABS figures released today shows the jobless rate has leapfrogged from 6.0 per cent in June to 6.4 per cent in...
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971Economy
Abbott fiddles as the nation burns
When the News Corp National Economics Editor Jessica Irvine writes that “Australia is sleep walking its way toward economic demise”, readers should...
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In politics, keeping one’s word is sacrosanct
Honour alone could catapult Will Hodgman to a second term in 2018. By rejecting earlier this week an almighty big carrot offered...
