Leo D'Angelo Fisher
There is everything to fear in the Liberal proposal to sell the ABC
Some believe the recent call by the Liberal Party’s Federal Council to privatise the ABC provides no cause for alarm because the...
Royal commission proves it: The big banks are too big
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the banking royal commission is delivering in spades. If a single conclusion...
ACTU’s plan to lift wages should be taken seriously, not rubbished
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has a knack for making employers nervous. The latest public utterance from Ms McManus to give skittish employers...
Turnbull’s energy soap opera continues with the Monash Forum
Government in Australia is broken. There is no cause for immediate alarm: services will continue, moneys owed will be paid and public...
‘Turnbull, stop treating us like mugs. Show us your economic plan’
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his shouty Treasurer Scott Morrison are very fond of talking about their “economic plan”. Australians hear a...
Money vs morals: why Woolworths is holding on to its poker machines
Woolworths chairman Gordon Cairns has vowed to act on reports that employees of the retail giant’s $1.5 billion gaming and pubs division...
Why Australia desperately needs a population policy
Anyone routinely caught in gridlocked traffic or forced to look further and further beyond city limits to find affordable housing will be well familiar...
Morrison’s ‘cut corporate tax’ mantra shows his political antenna doesn’t work
It’s a mystery why the Turnbull government is investing so much of its scant political capital on reducing the tax rate for...
Super raiding for obesity treatment signals a much bigger problem – so what is the government doing?
More Australians are dipping into their superannuation early to pay for medical bills and super purists warn this is not healthy. It’s...
Logan Paul scandal: YouTube breaches our trust
YouTube star Logan Paul made the biggest mistake of his young life when he shared his grim discovery in a Japanese forest...