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Treasurer Scott Morrison says the government will take on more ‘good debt’ to boost productivity when current spending is under control.
The sale of the vast Kidman pastoral empire to the joint venture Outback Beef has passed the foreign investment hurdle.
After the national accounts showed the economy going backwards in the September quarter, Scott Morrison called for “partners” in the parliament to drive the government’s economic plan through.
The backpacker tax deadlock has been broken with a deal between the government and the Greens for a 15% rate that will be lower in effective terms because backpackers will keep extra superannuation.
Treasurer Scott Morrison this week reignited the discussion about housing affordability in Australia. The question is: will the government be willing to bring forward meaningful reform?
Scott Morrison is a “once bitten, never shy” sort of guy. The Treasurer this week launched into the hot topic of housing affordability.
While Australia faces its greatest economic challenges in a generation, we are still waiting for the greatest economic reformers in a generation to arrive.
Scott Morrison will argue that Australia ‘can’t afford not to trade’.
The government will impose an increase in the departure tax and claw back more superannuation from holiday makers departing Australia.
Scott Morrison posted a this-was-mine claim on Facebook after Christian Porter promoted what was received as a fresh approach to welfare reform in his Tuesday speech.
Finally – though who knows for how long – we see signs of the Turnbull government pulling up its socks.
The decision to refuse the ARC and academic researchers a right of reply appears to be a straightforward breach of the News Corp Australia code of conduct.
The government and Labor have offered up competing packages of budget savings. The question of whether they can meet halfway will be a test for both sides.
Federal treasurer Scott Morrison’s diagnosis of the risks and challenges confronting the Australian economy is hard to fault. But tackling those problems will require flexibility from the government.
Treasurer Scott Morrison has given notice of a fresh assault on the crucial challenge of budget repair. Let’s hope he and Malcolm Turnbull have learned from the unfortunate self-destructing experience…
Scott Morrison has formally ruled out Chinese companies obtaining a 50.4% share of Ausgrid.
The University of Canberra’s acting vice-chancellor Frances Shannon and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
Poor Scott Morrison. Public policy storms don’t get more perfect than this. Nor are they generally quite as revealing of the increasingly complex environment in which policies are made these days. The…
Scott Morrison has rejected Chinese bids for the 99-year lease of 50.4% of Ausgrid, the NSW electricity distribution system, for security reasons.
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