Fiscal fiction of tax levies
Levies for worthy causes are used to drive a rising tax burden and elevated spending
Bank tax is a populist whim
The government undercuts the tax-cutting principles of its own growth agenda and muddies the waters on tax reform.
Treasurer delivers the wrong budget
There is little in this budget about incentives-based economic reform to help structural change and reform that looks at outcomes rather than inputs.
Now to upend the French economy
For too long France has been able to import subsidies while simultaneously exporting their bureaucratic legal traditions to Europe.
Media ownership law changes long overdue
The reactionaries on the so-called progressive side of politics have media laws arse about face, to use the vernacular.
Budget set to kick the can down the road
The budget looks like a capitulation to the political system's fetish for more spending
The futility of the Fairfax strike
The seven-day journalists' strike at Fairfax Media is a clash between old and new Australia.
Mission accomplished for Turnbull
For Mr Turnbull, who travelled a long way only a few days out from a critical federal budget, that amounted to mission accomplished.
Labor should help clean poison pills
Labor wants the government to lock in new spending on the back of a cyclical upturn, just when we should get the budget out of the red
Twenty-seven years is just too long
In today's world, a single individual should not run what is an important public institution for decades on end.
