Michael Pascoe: Property prices + interest rise threat = Clickbait
When not promoting the government’s shakedown of Google and Facebook, the main focus of media companies is attracting eyeballs in the hope...
Michael Pascoe: Josh Frydenberg sure got Zucker punched in this tech-giant fist fight
If I was a cartoonist instead of a journalist, I’d be drawing a bashed and bruised Josh Frydenberg with black eye, stitches...
Michael Pascoe: National Party’s failure adds to educational disadvantage in the bush
A graph illustrating one thing can sometimes be most telling about another. For example, a study of NSW Year 3 NAPLAN results...
Michael Pascoe: Married At First Sight – and other public interest journalism
There’s a big hint in the name, Nine Entertainment – not “Nine Public Interest Journalism”. It’s Nine Entertainment that is reportedly copping...
Michael Pascoe: What the betting says about Packer’s Crown – No worries, mate
For all the commentary about what might or might not happen to the Packer-controlled Crown Resorts, it pays to look at what...
Michael Pascoe: Australians surrender wages hopes
Australians have effectively surrendered hope of improved living standards, expecting inflation will be much higher than weak growth in their pay packets....
Funny thing, Packer’s Sydney Crown doesn’t need its casino anyway
As expected, the final report of the NSW inquiry into the suitability of James Packer’s Crown Resorts to run a casino –...
Michael Pascoe: The Great Wages Suppression is destroying trust
Ask nearly any employer or read the Australian Financial Review and you’ll be told Australian wages are too high. It’s a claim...
Michael Pascoe: A simple change to heal our deepest wound
It’s on again, the Australia Day culture war, the annual clash of those placing primacy on a more inclusive society with those...
Michael Pascoe: Grants rorts? Wait, there’s more …
#Sportsrorts was the most egregious of the Morrison government’s grant frauds and the $3 billion Community Development Grants are by far the...