It does sound like the kind of pay rise Labor and the unions would engineer three Saturdays before a close election. And a headline like a 35% pay rise sounds like great news to Labor voters and ...

The time has come for me to make my detailed predictions for Australia’s federal elections on 3 May. I can now honestly say that the result I have always predicted will occur. It has always been my ...

Reading the economic tea leaves and notes from John Kehoe, influential economics editor of the AFR, makes me think a May rate cut is a near past-the-post certainty. Only a bad CPI reading on April 30 ...

The national average price of unleaded petrol has tumbled to $1.79 a litre but who can’t remember seeing prices topping $2 in recent times? Helping KO high prices has been the surprise increase in ...

One thing’s for sure about Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton is that they really want the PM job, and they’re prepared to spend our money to get it! Yep, they’ve been promising big, with serious ...

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