Rob Burgess
After a decade of peril, let’s not risk all we’ve achieved
What made Tuesday night’s federal budget so disappointing was the government’s apparent amnesia about what our economy has just been through. It...
Flattening taxes will undermine our economic foundations
Slowly it is sinking in that Tuesday night’s budget contained a major turning point in Australian policy making – a flattening of our...
Budget 2018: It’s a Dirty Harry budget – so do you feel lucky, punk?
With an election likely to be called before the next full federal budget, it’s not surprising to see this year’s budget papers...
Budget 2018: Labor must hit back against ‘tax cap’ nonsense
By writing a hard-and-fast upper limit on tax revenue into this year’s federal budget, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison...
Cut company tax and, umm, maybe boost growth
Fans of the Turnbull government’s company tax cut plans are lauding a new report that appears to support the notion they will...
The jobs of tomorrow: what to tell your children
One of the difficult bits of advice many parents will have to give their kids in the next few years is “don’t...
Three cheers for Aldi … and the company about to rip into it
Genuine competition is a wonderful thing for consumers, so it’s been heartening to see a lot more of that in Australia’s supermarkets....
Canberra must own the rental affordability crisis
Anglicare wasn’t mincing words on housing affordability on Monday, saying that a “crisis” was fast becoming a “meltdown”. Launching the charity’s ninth...
Investors get green light to outbid home buyers
At one level, the decision by bank regulator APRA to scrap its ‘speed limit’ on the growth in investor mortgages looks like...
Banks played a rigged game, but cheated anyway
The really staggering thing about the corruption and lies being exposed by the banking royal commission is how unnecessary it all was,...