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1 day ago · ‘Muddying the waters’ is a common strategy in politics. It entails finding a key fact or piece of information that can scuttle an attack line or confuse an issue. This is probably the best framework to assess the December 2024 Consumer Price Index (CPI) numbers released by the ABS. The key ...

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Dec 20, 2024 · Equally concerning is the government’s reluctance to even consider carbon capture, usage, and storage (CCUS) technologies – solutions that countries like Norway are employing to reduce emissions, and other countries like the US and Canada already benefit from. This technology can reduce emissions from hard-to-abate industries, yet it remains ignored in the Australian conversation.

Jan 5, 2025 · Senator Rennick goes on to accuse various ratings agencies of corruption due to a failure of accountability and a lack of separation between the regulators and regulated institutions.

Jan 22, 2025 · Opposition leader Peter Dutton describes the upcoming federal election as a ‘sliding door moment for our nation’. He is right. It isn’t being partisan to point out that economically and socially Australia has gone into a steep decline since Labor took office.

A recent newspaper article asked university students how they would solve the current housing crisis. The article suggested that we were heading towards a housing ‘catastrophe’, but Gen Z had the answer. However, an economist mate of mine pointed to the HILDA data and suggested people found it harder to pay their rent or their mortgage in the early 2000s than today.

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