You can’t help first home buyers without making other buyers worse off.
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Expect two more interest rate cuts, but they mightn’t be enough.
The debate about the transition away from fossil fuels has focused on costs, but right here in Australia we have examples of the benefits of sustainable new energy sources for our cities.
In the research’s February round, many participants hadn’t heard of Steggall. By last week – unsurprisingly given the rash of publicity – everybody had, although some knew little detail about her.
Topping up deposits by as much as 15 percentage points will help, but housing isn’t risk-free.
The Labor leader’s personal popularity is stubbornly low, but this has allowed him to build himself as a team player, and position him well to become Australia’s next prime minister.
If someone asked the “real Scott Morrison to please stand up”, two men might rise to their feet. The uncompromising, don’t-give-an-inch hard Scott, and a more conciliatory, flexible character.
At some level, democratic societies have had enough of Murdoch and his propaganda operation masquerading as a news service.
Here’s how the coalition, Labor and the Greens stack up against the Paris targets.
History shows there’s no best economic manager. They’re both pretty good.
Plenty of services use AI to study your behaviour to suggest new things to you. So could such a tool help you decide how to vote?
The election is complicated by the apparent lumpiness of the vote, with seats expected to change hands in both directions.
The timing of the promise appears to be designed to make an impact, without leaving much time to examine details. But with Labor promising to match it the political advantage will presumably be lost.
Once opposition costings were once a highlight of election campaigns. They would be full of mistakes. Not now.
Yes, 86% of GP visits were bulk-billed in 2017-18, up from 82% when Labor was in power. But they also rose under Labor, while the percentage for “patients” seems to be lower than the percentage for “visits”.
Wentworth remains one of the most interesting individual contests in this campaign.
Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics.
It remains to be seen whether the Liberals’ campaign woes in Lyons will have any impact on the neighbouring battleground seats of Bass or Braddon, which recent polls suggest the Liberals could regain.
The state of budget-balance fetishism in Australia means political leaders promise to balance the budget, no matter what.
Bigger surpluses, lower debt and tax cuts baked in the Coalition’s worst nightmare come true.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Lecturer of Australian Politics, Murdoch University
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Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra
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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
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Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University
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Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer, The University of Queensland
