Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

Politics

🗞️The new kids shaping the election block

Mar 28, 2025

•

3 min read

🗞️The new kids shaping the election block

By Intifar Chowdhury, Flinders University in Adelaide

Latest News

📰 Coalition super policy would hike house prices by 10%, pushing the dream of home ownership further out of reach

Mar 27, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Coalition super policy would hike house prices by 10%, pushing the dream of home ownership further out of reach

A Coalition policy to raid super for house deposits – reaffirmed in tonight’s Budget-in-Reply speech - would just pour more fuel on the fire of Australia’s housing affordability crisis, hiking house prices by up to 10% and pushing the dream of homeownership even further out of reach for everyday Australians.

Latest News

📰 Budget reply fails to set out plan to lift living standards or tackle housing crisis

Mar 27, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Budget reply fails to set out plan to lift living standards or tackle housing crisis

The Coalition’s budget in reply contained no plan for supporting those on the lowest incomes or addressing the housing affordability crisis.

Jaime Bada

Latest News

📰 Dutton Promises Fuel Excise Cut in Budget Reply: 'Sliding Doors Moment' for Economy

Mar 27, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Dutton Promises Fuel Excise Cut in Budget Reply: 'Sliding Doors Moment' for Economy

Setting the stage for the approaching election as a pivotal event for Australia's future prosperity, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has presented a different economic vision focused on offering instantaneous relief for living expenses and reforming the energy market in a major speech to Parliament.

miko santos

Politics

🗞️4 key myths that manufacture an immigration 'crisis'

Mar 27, 2025

•

3 min read

🗞️4 key myths that manufacture an immigration 'crisis'

By Fethi Mansouri and Amanuel Elias, Deakin University in Melbourne

Latest News

📰 Australian Inflation Eases to 2.4% as Housing and Food Price Pressures Moderate

Mar 26, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Australian Inflation Eases to 2.4% as Housing and Food Price Pressures Moderate

The most recent inflation figures point to a possible change in Australia's cost-of-living crisis as price pressures in key areas of household expenditure seem to be gradually relaxing.

Jaime Bada

Latest News

📰 Tax Cuts Take Center Stage as Labor Sets Stage for May Election Amid Global Economic Headwinds

Mar 25, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Tax Cuts Take Center Stage as Labor Sets Stage for May Election Amid Global Economic Headwinds

As election drums beat louder across Australia, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled a budget that places income tax cuts at its heart, immediately sparking fierce political debate.

miko santos

Press release

📰 HSU welcomes groundbreaking Medicare budget, but more needed for workers

Mar 25, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 HSU welcomes groundbreaking Medicare budget, but more needed for workers

The Health Services Union (HSU) has strongly endorsed the Albanese government’s record investments to strengthen Medicare in this year’s federal budget, while noting a missed opportunity to provide cost-of-living relief for disability support workers.

Press release

📰 Nature-wrecking bill undermines budget commitments

Mar 25, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Nature-wrecking bill undermines budget commitments

The Albanese Government has undermined modest commitments to nature in tonight’s budget by rushing through destructive changes to Australia’s environment laws, said WWF-Australia.

Press release

📰 Billions to gain if energy relief budget spend focuses on electrification

Mar 25, 2025

•

3 min read

📰 Billions to gain if energy relief budget spend focuses on electrification

Rewiring Australia broadly welcomes the government’s commitment to helping households tackle the cost-of-living crisis, but is urging for an investment in longer-term solutions.

Archive

Dive into a collection of past posts and rediscover timeless content.

🗞️The new kids shaping the election block

📰 Coalition super policy would hike house prices by 10%, pushing the dream of home ownership further out of reach

📰 Budget reply fails to set out plan to lift living standards or tackle housing crisis

📰 Dutton Promises Fuel Excise Cut in Budget Reply: 'Sliding Doors Moment' for Economy

🗞️4 key myths that manufacture an immigration 'crisis'

📰 Australian Inflation Eases to 2.4% as Housing and Food Price Pressures Moderate

📰 Tax Cuts Take Center Stage as Labor Sets Stage for May Election Amid Global Economic Headwinds

📰 HSU welcomes groundbreaking Medicare budget, but more needed for workers

📰 Nature-wrecking bill undermines budget commitments

📰 Billions to gain if energy relief budget spend focuses on electrification

The Financial Register