Alan Austin
Forget polls. The economy is Turnbull’s true measure of failure
The true measure of Malcolm Turnbull’s failure of leadership is not his 30 straight Newspoll losses but his inability to manage the...
Barnaby Joyce scandal thrusts Australian politics back into international headlines
The Barnaby Joyce scandal has thrust Australia into the world’s headlines again – after two years of respite from Abbott-era global embarrassments....
Major report shows richest 1 per cent has boomed under Abbott, Turnbull
Australia’s wealth has become increasingly concentrated in the hands of the top 1 per cent in the past four years, with this...
Record-low wage rises an international shame
Australian wage earners seem to be singled out in the developed world for exclusion from the benefits of the current global economic...
It’s official. Regular Australians are getting poorer
Of all the measures of wellbeing of Australia’s workers and families, one has reliably increased over the decades. That is despite droughts,...
Our national debt blasts past half a trillion dollars
Australia’s national debt has exceeded $500 billion, more than double the debt Labor added during the global crisis but in a fraction of the time,...
Benefits of profits boom flow offshore
Big business is booming. This week’s profit figures show the current surge in corporate mega profits is rapidly accelerating. Robust revenue and...
Budget 2017: Eighty billion dollars in extra debt this year, all of it bad
By the end of this financial year the Turnbull government will have added $80 billion in gross debt, and smashed the $500...
Bumper corporate profits but no help for workers in sight
That sound of champagne corks popping across the country comes from mining executives and shareholders. Tuesday’s trade figures confirm Australian corporations are...
Coalition doubles Labor’s debt – in less than four years
Late last Friday, Australia’s Treasury quietly released a nifty statistic. It revealed that government gross debt is now $483,080,000,000.00. That’s $483.1 billion....