Having embraced expert advice on bond aggregation to finance housing, Scott Morrison needs to ensure the Commonwealth commits to long-term investment and cooperation.
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Scott Morrison has delivered a surprisingly big-taxing budget that pays for the last burial rites of the toxic Abbott legacy from 2014.
This budget, led by Scott Morrison and Malcolm Turnbull, will form part of the government’s repositioning as an advocate of equal opportunity and fairness.
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The Turnbull government is desperately trying to develop a more convincing economic narrative around good economic management, nation-building and fairness.
Scott Morrison is digging in behind the government’s changes to the way schools are funded.
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Scott Morrison has a lot on his plate ahead of Tuesday night’s federal budget, including Catholic schools unhappy at how the school funding changes will affect them.
Scott Morrison said the Productivity Commission had been asked to inquire into the impact of the current system of horizontal fiscal equalisation.
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The government will highlight in its May 9 budget a distinction between ‘good’ debt, incurred to boost growth, and ‘bad’ debt, used to finance welfare and other recurrent spending.
Barnaby Joyce and Scott Morrison have channelled 1940s-era debates in their comments on housing affordability.
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It’s not the first time Australia has grappled with concerns about affordable housing. History offers insights that can help inform contemporary debates and policies.
At least ten cents in every dollar of superannuation assets is indirectly financing house purchases via commercial bank debt.
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What critics of the plan to use superannuation for housing miss is that Australia’s super system already channels a significant proportion of retirement savings into housing.
Scott Morrison says the response on housing must be comprehensive.
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The question is totally reasonable, and deserves an answer. But when Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison were asked on Tuesday for estimates of the growth and jobs dividends from the company tax cuts passed…
Impact investing emerged in 2007 out of global discussions on how to mobilise more capital to tackle societal problems.
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The proposed housing affordability package in the May budget will target people relying on social housing as well as those trying to break into the market.
Anna Bligh is now the chief spokesperson for an industry that fares poorly in the public eye.
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Beyond her political savvy, Anna Bligh’s appointment as CEO of the Australian Banking Association brings greater access than a Liberal appointee would.
Scott Morrison is headstrong – a quality that has marked his career, including before he was an MP.
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Less than three months from his second budget, Treasurer Scott Morrison is not in a happy place. The last week has been a disaster for him, culminating in the weekend exit of his strategy and communications…
The government was this week caught off-guard by a decision from the Nick Xenophon Team to reject the omnibus bill.
For Nick Xenophon, the past few days have brought home just how difficult things can become when you hold a great deal of crossbench power.
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The trenchant stand that Nick Xenophon – who is usually a compromiser – and his team took this week against the omnibus bill saw a disconcerted government resort to a risky tactic.
Scott Morrison is continuing to make the case for the government’s company tax cut plan to be passed.
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Senior Lecturer in Political Science: Research Fellow at the Cairns Institute; Research Associate for Centre for Policy Futures, University of Queensland, James Cook University