Peter Martin is the Economics Editor for The Age.
I hate going into bottleshops. Partly because I was brought up a Methodist, and partly because I never pick the right thing. If I spend too much, I'll be wasting my money; if I spend too little, the guests will think I'm serving rubbish. And to me, it all tastes the same.
Turnbull and Morrison are genuinely concerned about the inability of ordinary Australians to buy houses and are open to ideas.
The concept of "two Australias" isn't new, but those of us in VicNSW are less aware of it than we were back at the peak of the mining boom when it was QldWA versus the rest.
What if the right to an income was as basic as the right to vote?
From dead birds to power outages in severe storms, it seems that wind power can be fitted up for anything.
President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.
There's another massive deal you've never heard of.
What if we were on the cusp of the biggest advance in productivity in centuries and didn't recognise it?
What matters for a tolerable retirement (far more than superannuation) is owning the home in which you live.
There is much, much more to a good life than jobs and growth, and the head of the treasury ought to know it.
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