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.
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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.
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.
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.
Queensland budget 2016: Curtis Pitt’s reckoning day will come
The day of reckoning will come and, it is not far away. Were the federal government to lose its AAA rating, Queensland would very quickly be marked down a further notch or two.
Community rescue programs have failed Aurukun
Since 2008, the dominant focus of policy in Aurukun, and much of Cape York, has been to reimpose missionary disciplines in Aboriginal communities.
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.
What’s so bad about inequity?
Hey Bill, what about a royal commission into rating agencies? Aren’t they the capitalist bastards threatening to downgrade the Australian government because it pays for programs, pensions and public servants with money borrowed from foreigners?
A quick refresher course in how to create jobs
This entrenched idea that governments create new jobs by stimulating demand using taxpayer funds is flawed.
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