The coalition scrambled across the line by gaining enough votes from minor party voters on the economy, and also Mediscare, to cancel out problems with superannuation.
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Textor Thesis fails empirical test
Winning the first or second preferences of the voters currently voting non-Greens minor party is the key to securing a workable majority in Australia's federal parliament.
Fix the deposit gap and leave negative gearing alone
The major issue with housing affordability is the time it takes to save a deposit, and abolishing negative gearing would do little for this while potentially devastating home values.
Housing affordability – the deposit gap
This analysis shows the major issue with housing affordability is the time it takes to save a deposit, not negative gearing, and that mortgage repayments themselves are quite affordable by the standards of the last 23 years.
Polling shows Australia probably heading for another three years of stalemate
An electorate that trusts neither side of politics will deliver a result too close to call in the House of Representatives, but hand power to independents in the Senate.
‘Stick with the current mob for a while’
But if this is the best argument the coalition has to be returned then their focus groups are telling them what ours is: this is an election almost without alternatives.
Mid-election poll results
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.
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.
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