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?
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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.
The Labor $80 Billion con
Moreton MHR Graham Perrett claims an increase in expenditure on health and education is actually a decrease.
The Medicare problem in a table
Number of patients stable with population, but on average receiving 30% more services, but the benefit per patient has increased 72%. Over the same period inflation increased 30%.
Taxi industry cannot brake Uber’s run in an old, overregulated market
And the story isn’t about regulation or deregulation. It is more nuanced. It is about appropriate regulation.
Farmers’ bank idea has been tried before, and has failed
The Australian Institute for Progress today blasted calls for a “farmers’ bank”, saying the notion of taxpayers propping up failing rural businesses had been tried and had failed in the recent past. The Queensland-based policy think tank urged the Palaszczuk government to reject calls by Katter’s Australia Party to establish a Rural Reconstruction Board to take over debts of struggling farmers.
Advance Queensland program doesn’t approach innovation from right direction
It makes all the basic mistakes. It assumes we are not an innovative economy, innovation consists in advances in science and technology alone, and is something out there.
Opponents of shark nets and culling ignore the risk to all and the hierarchy of species
Drawing moral lessons from sharks.
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