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Federal budget 2017: At last, Morrison and Turnbull will be able to borrow big.
Tuesday week, Morrison and Turnbull will no longer be as limited by concern about budget deficit.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
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EXCLUSIVE. Copyright Agency diverts funds meant for authors to $15 million fighting fund: goo.gl/Z6D0ki
Millions intended for authors has been set aside to fight fair use.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
We're not really scrapping the 457 visa, and that's a good thing.
Malcolm Turnbull isn't axing temporary migration, and that's a good thing.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
How 48 millionaires pay no income tax, not even the Medicare levy.
A million dollars' worth of tax advice can cut your tax bill to zero.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
$10 billion NSW Cabinet directive. Planners told to ignore rail and build more roads.
For a fraction of what it will spend on the F6 tollway, the government could cut the Wollongong to Central travel time to about one hour.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
Memo Malcolm. How to walk back from the housing abyss, carefully:
There's time to walk back from the housing abyss, just.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
The T word. RBA boss blames lax lending, tax breaks for soaring house prices:
Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe intervenes in the debate over tax and home prices before the May budget.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
Want to know whether the company tax cut will make much difference? Ask an expert:
We mightn't have needed to cut that much anyway.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
Simplicity. How the Productivity Commission will take on the super funds
The non-profit industry funds want you to think there's nothing wrong. They are most often the funds new employees are defaulted into and they perform the best, on average far better than their for-profit competitors.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
One default fund for life. Unions sidelined in radical overhaul of superannuation.
Union-dominated super funds would lose their special status under a draft Productivity Commission recommendation that would delink superannuation from awards and allocate new workers to default funds only once.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
Demographic stats. Victoria fills up as the rest of the nation - including Sydneysiders - moves in
In the last 12 months 82,800 Australians have moved to Victoria from interstate, around 500 carloads a week.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
Peter Martin: How Turnbull can kill stamp duty and produce a budget to remember.
There's still time to craft a budget that actually does something.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
If your wallet is empty, you're part of the new majority.
We're using credit cards more than cash.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin
That sucking sound is Australians being robbed of their gas:
How a nation awash with gas ran dry in the middle of a global gas glut.
smh.com.au|By Peter Martin