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Turkish Airlines deal means cheaper flights, but it won’t end Qantas’ stranglehold

Why is there one rule for one international airline but another rule for others? The short answer is because Australian carriers want it to be this way.

Matt Grudnoff
Matt Grudnoff

Economist

Taxes got your goat? You’re fooling nobody by calling it a levy

The nation’s tax system is complicated enough, without adding to it with levies that don’t raise much money and are expensive to collect.

Shane Wright
Shane Wright

Senior economics correspondent

Anyone could have predicted Victoria’s billion-dollar cost blowouts

Victorians can’t make a fair political choice when they are forced to vote on rushed projects for which costs are badly miscalculated.

Jago Dodson
Jago Dodson

Professor of Urban Policy

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