Michael Pascoe
You’re being robbed to fund the Coalition’s election advertising
How do you feel about paying for particularly misleading advertising aimed at winning votes for the Coalition? Having ditched its biggest donor...
Michael Pascoe foretells the political year ahead
A regular January feature of Mining Monthly magazine has been Olde Pascoe’s Almanacke. In light of the resignations of Kelly O’Dwyer and...
The politics of faking it – Australia going all Trumpy
As Bill Shorten trots out his “Bill bus” for a Queensland election drive, and Scott Morrison whistles boat people and keeps having...
OECD gets Australia’s effective corporate tax very wrong
An OECD claim that Australia has the world’s third highest effective marginal corporate tax rate made a great headline and pleased the...
The other Murray-Darling wildlife disaster – it’s what you don’t see
There is one good thing about a massive fish kill: You can see it. The whole world can see it when a...
How a dream turned around our worst state
There it was again, tucked away in a set of statistics, Tasmania doing markedly better than the rest of the nation. That’s...
Productivity Commission report throws superannuation back into the political fire
Yes, the Productivity Commission (PC) has come up with some straight-forward ideas that would make average workers hundreds of thousands of dollars...
The latest dismal car sales point the Coalition down the road to ruin
The nation’s car yards have fired a distress flare about consumer confidence: new vehicle sales crashed in December. National sales were down...
And so endeth the Year of Falls … none disastrous
Some years roar ahead, some plod along and, just occasionally, a year will be remembered for falls. In the case of 2018,...
Unemployment in greater Sydney hits 40-year low. And still, no wage rises
Greater Sydney’s unemployment rate fell to 3.5 per cent in November, the lowest such figure since unemployment rose above 3 per cent...