Is Australia high-taxing, high-spending country? The below chart shows the revenue and expenditure of a wide variety of countries. Australi...
June unemployment numbers
Today the ABS released the June labour force figures. They make for more bleak reading, following on from other indicators of a softening e...
Trust and votes
Some interesting numbers out of this week's Essential polling on trust in state governments . The graph below shows how each of the thr...
Intergenerational Theft
Conservative politicians and commentators love to talk about intergenerational theft. Through the prism of this line of argument, governmen...
Recent Overseas Migrants
Australians are a funny bunch when it comes to overseas migration. We tolerate outsiders crossing our shores, if only because our populatio...
The facts about job vacancies
One of the many surprise policies announced in the federal government's 2014-15 Budget was a big change to the way income support is pa...
Clive Palmer's Atomic Wedgie
As if Tony Abbott hadn’t wedged himself enough on climate policy, yesterday Clive Palmer delivered him a Seinfeldian atomic wedgie that will...
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