Economy

ASIC’s Chairman, Greg Medcraft, is a lobbyist and deal-maker at heart, a member of the CEO club. He does not have a law enforcement mindset.

Once the smoke of the false intergenerational spat clears, we’re still left with a policy mix that has engineered the current housing affordability issue.

Curiously, Scott Morrison says ‘you can’t tax your way to surplus’. Tell that to Peter Costello. The revenue that gave him his surpluses was just that: revenue.

Why would a treasurer invest so much time and capital softening up the electorate for big tax changes only to ditch them, not once but three times?

People who have read the TPP document in the search for safeguards have been disappointed to find that the term ‘climate change’ does not appear once.

While some in the party frame the contrary positions on national security as healthy policy debate, the view of that argument is pretty blunt. It was put to me as follows: ‘Bullshit.’

Extended education, longer retirement and the creation of a permanent benefits class have hidden the great shift. With Uberisation and automation that will rise to the point where it can no longer be ignored.

Right now, officials in capital cities the world over are scheduling, briefing and fretting over the feast of looming diplomatic jamborees.

The question on many lips is, ‘Was Turnbull controlled by Murdoch or controlled by Abbott who was controlled by Murdoch?’

Morrison says we need to have a mature discussion. But is there a grown-up way of cutting the wages and conditions of four million Australians?