Michael Pascoe
Forecasting is so much easier in retrospect
They have my deepest sympathies, The Conversation’s 24 economic forecasting victims – sorry, I mean “volunteers”. Forecasting is hard, particularly forecasting the...
Michael Pascoe: PM’s spin suggests strategists coached in sports rorts election game
Bridget McKenzie remains in the firing line for the corrupt $100 million community sport grants program, but the bigger #sportsrorts story has...
Michael Pascoe: Morrison’s grants corruption defence working a treat
You’d never guess it from the rolling sport rorts headlines, but the government’s defence of its grants corruption is working a treat....
Michael Pascoe: Morrison announces massive carbon emissions cuts – but he doesn’t mean it
On Monday Scott Morrison claimed Australia’s carbon emissions will be slashed by 42 per cent this decade – a vastly greater reduction...
Anatomy of a snow job: Scott Morrison whitewashes corruption
Let’s be very clear about this. The rorting of the $100 million community sports grants program was flagrant corruption and Prime Minister...
Michael Pascoe: Look who helped sports grant corruption get the go-ahead
So Senator Bridget McKenzie, the most senior members of the coalition government and their sundry ministerial office staff are fine with corrupting...
The $100 million question: What did the PM know about sports funding scandal?
Of course Bridget McKenzie is rabidly defending her indefensible rorting of $100 million in community sports grants – she must do that...
Minister McKenzie spits in the face of decency, ethics and every decent Australian
There is no news in this column. You’ll learn nothing more of the $100 million Bridget McKenzie sports grants scandal than has already...
Scott Morrison’s response to climate change is economically irrational
There was Scott Morrison on Sunday morning, still a captive of “brutal retail politics” as Peta Credlin put it when explaining the...
Michael Pascoe: This is how govt can create a fairer, more sustainable Australia
Before the term “neoliberal” took over, there was “economic rationalism”. It’s time to bring it back and this time actually try it....