The government has found a A$19.5 billion hole in Labor’s plan to boost tobacco excise – a proposal that Treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget will also adopt in the scramble for revenue.
Whether the Coalition is re-elected or Labor wins, tobacco excise, which has been increasing by 12.5% annually since 2013, will continue to rise...
Local voices are more important than ever in a time of global oligopolies.
i naina _94/flickr, CC BY-SAThe following is an edited version of the Brian Johns lecture, delivered on Monday night by Professor Julianne Schultz. It’s a longer read at just over 4,500 words.
We now live in the Age of Fang – the...
… when John Howard handed government over to the Labor Party and then the Labor, Green, independent alliance, Australia was owed tens of billions of dollars by the world. When they handed government back to us, all your listeners owed the world hundreds of billions of dollars. – Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, speaking on the...
Ancient Roman relief carving of a midwife (Wellcome Trust, photo NO. M0003964EB).Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAWhen I think back to the traumatic birth of my own daughter - and how I would have lost her and my partner if it hadn’t been for some swift medical intervention - I can’t help but wonder how the heck we’ve grown to be so...
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