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PM lines up Shorten as he warms to tough penalty-cut argument
There is no arguing with the proposition that Malcolm Turnbull has the tougher task on the Fair Work Commission's ruling to cut Sunday penalty rates.
There is no arguing with the proposition that Malcolm Turnbull has the tougher task on the Fair Work Commission's ruling to cut Sunday penalty rates.
The PM would do well to concede, even if it only in private, that there's more to his problem than Tony Abbott's sniping.
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Malcolm Turnbull needs to find a solution to his Tony Abbott problem as Coalition MPs sweat on the next negative development in this toxic rivalry.
All of a sudden, Labor went quiet on Friday, right when it was gearing up to hammer Malcolm Turnbull over slashed penalty rates for hospitality and retail workers.
Australia's economy is held back because wages are too low, not too high.
Any decision to increase Australia's commitment now, must imbibe the lessons of the last decade and a half.
There is an important discussion to be had about the penalty rates decision, but our politicians appear incapable of engaging in it, much less leading it.
Could it be possible that Centrelink is sometimes unfairly castigated?
Civil war has broken out in the federal parliamentary Liberal Party, and more importantly, within the government of Australia.
If the Liberal Party were a schoolyard - and really, it is, isn't it? - there'd be excitable kids rushing about yelling that oldest of rallying cries: "fight, fight, fight".
I attended a country show a couple of weeks ago.
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After laying siege to the Australian labour fortress of weekend penalty rates over decades, employers have finally loosened a few bricks and clambered over the wall.
That people still hold hostile attitudes towards working parents, and particularly working mothers, is baffling.
Low wage growth is what the Coalition wanted. Within weeks of being sworn in as employment minister in 2013 Eric Abetz warned "weak-kneed employers" not to cave in to unreasonable demands.
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With the Coalition in power, why did the banks pick a Laborite as their lobbyist?
Maybe it will be called the Donald duck-around - a diplomatic game in which what is apparent to the entire world is not raised and a phone call that stung goes unmentioned.
Is Peter Dutton deliberately trying to sabotage the deal to resettle refugees from Manus Island and Nauru? Or is the Immigration Minister simply insensitive, undiplomatic and incompetent?
When in doubt, soak the rich. It seems obvious because, after all, there's votes in it, right?
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The total cost of six years of childcare is astonishing.
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Descending east from Jerusalem into the Rift Valley, the landscape turns decidedly hostile, and that's just the start of it.
The public seems to think a surplus is either impossible or unimportant.
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The public policy case for lowering the concession is strong. But the political cost was seen as too high.
The hurly-burly of the 2016 election campaign, as seen through the eyes of Fairfax reporters and photographers.
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