As Australia heads into an eight-week election campaign, the trigger for the early election – the defeat of the Government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission Bill – seems to have disappeared into the distant past. No one is focusing on what started the race. Because the quota for the Senate in a double dissolution is…
The centrepiece of Labor’s election manifesto is to increase the production of renewable energy to 50 per cent of total energy production by 2030: that is, in less than 14 years’ time. Bill Shorten not quizzed on imponderables. The enormity of Labor’s proposal can be seen in an examination of Australia’s current renewable energy usage:…
For a man who promised certainty and clear direction on his accession to the Prime Ministership last September, Malcolm Turnbull has been a huge disappointment. The Minister for Announcing Thought Bubbles. His succession of announcements on fiscal policy – lifting the GST rate to 15 per cent, extending the range of the GST, capital gains…
The extraordinary decision by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to propose the abolition of federal funding for government schools has given Labor’s Bill Shorten his best opportunity to win the 2016 election since Turnbull’s accession to power last September. Bill Shorten and Malcolm Turnbull have never been so close in the polls. Although the running of…
