Michael Pascoe
Exit Mathias Cormann, the facilitator
Position vacant: The federal Liberal Party requires a skilled facilitator to guide matters of dubious popularity through the Australian Senate. The successful...
RBA tells the government not to worry about debt
In a few careful sentences, the Reserve Bank this week told the federal government not to worry about debt approaching $1 trillion...
Beware the government punishing the poor for earning more
You know last week’s minimum wage increase of less than $2 a day? The federal government will be getting more of it...
The verdict is in: Morrison’s plan has zero credibility
The main lesson from The Conversation’s poll of 22 economists’ forecasts? Scott Morrison’s plan to deliver the growth Australia needs over the...
Michael Pascoe: I stopped paying the ‘lazy tax’
Something good had to come out of the COVID lockdown period – I stopped paying the “lazy tax”. And about bloody time,...
Michael Pascoe: No, the minimum wage is not rising by 1.75 per cent
The headlines last week declared that the Fair Work Commission had granted a 1.75 per cent increase in the minimum wage, an...
Michael Pascoe: Twenty per cent underutilisation? ’Tis but a scratch …
Locked in neoliberal armour, Prime Minister Scott Morrison is playing Monty Python’s Black Knight, in total denial about the Australian labour force...
Michael Pascoe: Senators go fishing in corrupt community grants pool
The Senate passed a Greens motion on Monday ordering the Minister for Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities to table documents by Wednesday...
Michael Pascoe: The neoliberals back in charge – let ‘market forces’ rip
The euphemism of the week is that the Coalition wants “to let the economy adjust”. Hold on tight. It means the Morrison...
Michael Pascoe: Are sharemarkets experiencing ‘a dead bat bounce’?
Funny thing about the latest NAB business conditions and confidence survey this week – the jump in business confidence was much greater...