Our polling suggests close to a dead heat in the federal election with the economy, and issues like immigration, pitched against health and education concerns.
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Qld Budget includes unbelievably low expenditure growth forecasts
Compare the expenditure growth forecasts with the historical data and you will see how heroic they are.
The budget and election 2016
This budget has effectively been written by the Labor and minor parties by restricting what measures they will allow through the senate, while they blame the government for the resulting deficits.
Report released on Australian attitudes to taxation
Most significantly 56% said they were prepared to pay higher tax. While Greens (75%) were the most generous, even 46% of Liberal voters said they were prepared to pay more.
Time ripe to raise taxes…unfortunately
There is a good argument to keep taxes as low as possible. It’s an argument that is losing ground in modern Australia.
Kohler’s mistakes underline why negative gearing is threatened
One of our best economic commentators makes fundamental errors about negative gearing, the ABCC and housing prices.
Turnbull held aloft by projection and likeability
Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity seems a lot like Kevin Rudd’s on the basis of our polling. So will it disappear just as quickly and catastrophically for his own party?
Shorten in policy disarray on housing affordability and negative gearing
This morning Bill Shorten admitted on ABC Radio’s AM program that Labor’s negative gearing policy would not achieve its headline goal as a “Positive Plan to Help Housing Affordability”.
ALP would make Australia the second most expensive OECD country for Capital Gains Tax
Such "low tax" countries as Germany, France, Italy and even New Zealand tax capital gains at 0%, but Labor would tax at a level second only to Denmark.
Negative gearing policy channels mining tax debacle
The Labor Party’s negative gearing policy has the potential to become a rerun of its mining tax – creating major upheaval and uncertainty but raising very little additional revenue.
