No lightbulb idea in energy failures
It is politics and regulations that has failed, not markets
The populists and the poll results
The Fairfax Ipsos poll has confirmed, once again, that the Malcolm Turnbull-led Coalition is trailing BIll Shorten's Labor
WA's tax slug budget fix
With ad-hoc tax slugs like these, it might be a while before WA has boom time worries again.
Marrying up competing rights
Liberal democracy must reconcile competing marriage and religious rights. Failure risks a backlash.
Sugar Daddy industry super
The New Daily shows how tax breaks propsoed by Senator Xenophon inevitably would be garnished for advocacy dressed up as journalism.
Bashing business bashes growth
The trouble is the Coalition, too, has parked the pro-business and pro-growth route to higher wages that's behind its company tax cuts polic...
The power scramble has to end
The AEMO report is a timely warning to the Turnbull government to stop the ad hockery and start acting.
Productivity still the main game
Some have wrongly sought to portray a Treasury paper as pooh-poohing the whole idea that Australia has a productivity problem.
Corporate scapegoats and honest mistakes
The co-managing of listed companies by government or noisy minorities of shareholders has its risks too
Marooned in political no-man's land
With our politicians returning to Canberra this week, Australians should prepare for groundhog day.
