Tag: Australia

Loyalty And Trust Permeate The Zahid-Anwar Relationship

Anwar’s relationship with Mahathir cannot be restored, betrayal even if forgiven, was never forgotten based on lack of loyalty (Part 1).
Opinion

A Jho Low Pardon Would Make A Mockery of Due Process in 1MDB Case

With the alleged mastermind still at large, granting clemency to fugitive Jho Low would leave Malaysia’s most consequential trial half-tried
Opinion
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Rents highlight Australia’s economic Achilles heel, but it’s not what you might think

There's no doubt many renters are in a world of pain right now. CoreLogic data shows asking rents jumped 8.3 per cent last year, after...
Australia & New Zealand

The Housing Crisis Won’t Be Fixed By Pretend Policies

Our housing availability and affordability problem is having perverse effects on work, intergenerational mobility, entrepreneurship, fertility and family formation.
Australia & New Zealand

Journalist Nabil Al-Nashar shares clip of ‘casual racism’

An ABC journalist has called out the “casual racism” he experiences on the job in a new video filmed while working. A video has exposed...
Australia & New Zealand

‘Very broken housing system’: More high-income earners stuck in rent trap

More people earning a higher income are caught in a rental trap as house prices soar, unless they have the help of the bank...
Australia & New Zealand

The tactics Coles and Woolworths use to maintain their power over Australia’s grocery market

Coles and Woolworths say they're looking out for you – they are the fresh food people or the home of everyday low prices. But this...
Australia & New Zealand

The Skinny On Tax Cuts

First published in the MRC’s Watercooler newsletter. The biggest political issue of the first half of 2024 looks set to be a debate around...
Australia & New Zealand

Take A Stroll Through A Majestic Redwood Forest That’s 90 Minutes Away From Melbourne

Drive east of Warburton and feel both humbled and spellbound by the towering natural wonders of Cement Creek Redwood Forest. You don’t need to fly...
Australia & New Zealand

‘Investor handouts’ making housing crisis worse: report

Amid a historic cost-of-living crisis, Everybody’s Home says the federal government has to scrap tax concessions for investors and build more social housing. A national...
Australia & New Zealand

How Albanese could tweak negative gearing to save money and build more new homes

By Peter Martin There are two things the prime minister needs to get into his head about tax. One is that saying he won’t make any...
Australia & New Zealand

The Housing Crisis We Didn’t Have To Have, And How To Fix It

Alan Kohler’s Quarterly Essay is a valiant attempt to put the housing crisis into a historical and macroeconomic perspective. He offers solutions, but there are no...
Australia & New Zealand

The year the Australian Dream died

At the age of 31, Justin Dowswell never imagined he'd be living in a shared room in his childhood home. He had a full-time, well-paying...
Australia & New Zealand

This New Year It Is Time To Reflect Upon Ourselves And Palestine

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and...
World