The Senate Economics Committee is holding a hearing on January 30 in Sydney to discuss restricting people from using Australia’s own currency. The bill, intended to stop illegal activity, would stop law abiding Aussies from making cash purchases over $10,000, even if those purchases were made over multiple payments.
Read MoreI am sick and tired of writing about sports rorts, but I actually value my responsibility to the taxpayers. Please, just stop!
Read MoreIn bars across Sydney, people are raising glasses to the repeal of lockout laws. Monday marked the end of the 1:30 am lockout and moved last drinks all of 30 minutes from 3:00 am to 3:30 am for everywhere except Kings Cross and Darlinghurst. While this is a move in the right direction, the government is still choosing winners and losers under the pretence of safety.
Read MoreThe government may not know how to build a working national broadband network, but they do know how to covertly collect ever more money from Australians. This July, taxpayers will begin paying an extra $7.10 each month to the government for their internet. Because someone needs to pay for that $51billion NBN mess.
Read MoreIf you’re one of the many Australians who uses protein powder or other supplements, take note: those who wield red tape want to re-categorise them as medicine instead of food, writes Emilie Dye.
Read MorePrime Minister Scott Morrison has given business and taxpayers an early Christmas present with today’s announcement of cuts to government waste and red tape in what is expected to be the largest cull of government departments since 1987.
Read MoreAs tensions rise in Hong Kong and the protests become ever more violent, some have begun wavering in their support for the umbrella-wielding protestors. Closer to home Australians have suffered from the aggressive, violent, and destructive behaviour of the young Extinction Rebellion activists.
Read MoreFormer PM Paul Keating should have a look at what’s going on in China before lashing out at ‘pious do gooders’
Read MoreNot only is this excellent news for consumers who enjoy the convenience of free lightweight bags, but it is also welcome relief for hardworking small businesses and independent grocers trying to challenge the corporate oligopoly of big supermarket chains that don’t like competition.
Read MoreAll too often the information spreading across social media and into reporting misleads users and is inaccurate or all-around fake. In response to this, fact-checkers and social media platforms have waged a somewhat ineffective crackdown on misinformation. Yet this misinformation has seeped into our government and has begun impacting a broad set of issues including the vaping debate, the drought facing Australian farmers, and even climate policy.
Read MoreThe International Monetary Fund has forecasted a sharp decrease in Australia’s economic growth over the next year. The estimate predicts Australia will have an even weaker economy than Greece. Experts have shown the Morrison government’s low-income tax rebates have been ineffective due to misaligned incentives. Australia needs to fast-track tax cuts and rollback regulation to stimulate the flagging economy rather than spending taxpayer dollars to create a short-lived impression of growth.
Read MoreSeventy years ago, the authoritarian dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party was established.
The “Great Leap Forward” which followed in the fifties was one of the largest acts of systematic genocide in world history, taking 45 million lives in just four years.
Read MoreAlthough pro-Beijing Hong Kong Premier Carrie Lam formally withdrew an unpopular bill early in September that would’ve allowed Hong Kong residents to be extradited to the mainland to face Chinese courts, protests for the city’s autonomy are still ongoing — even though it’s fallen out of the main news cycle.
Read MoreThe federal government’s highly controversial robo-debt program has extorted thousands of dollars from hard-working Australians and abused bureaucratic power, hurting some of the most vulnerable groups in our society and discrediting attempts to crack down on welfare fraud.
Read MoreIt’s tempting to see the mainland Chinese government’s recent repression of Hong Kong as far removed from Australia’s national interests. Yet at a time when politicians like Gladys Liu and state representatives in NSW and Queensland are already being linked to or even outright support groups that serve the interests of the authoritarian and increasingly brazen Chinese Communist Party (CCP), these events in fact mark the beginning of a new chapter in Sino-Australian relations. One which threatens not only our sovereignty, but our businesses, investors and workers.
Read MoreBusiness and investors are up in arms about the Liberal South Australian government’s land tax reforms. Scott Salisbury, Managing Director of Salisbury Homes, this week has become just the latest to warn that the changes not only risk handing over government back to the Labor Party with a large war chest, but that they alienating the SA Liberals’ voter base.
Read MoreGovernment legislation that would have outlawed cash payments for goods and services exceeding $10,000 AUD to or between businesses has just been set aside and referred to a committee that won’t report back until February 2020. Although this setback for the bill is a notable victory, it should be seen as part of a wider pattern amongst world governments to push for cash’s demise for the sake of their own interests.
Read MoreThere is no greater act of economic or environmental vandalism in Australian history than our nonsensical prohibition on nuclear power. It’s doubly perplexing that successive state and federal governments have given in to the whims and bullying of anti-nuclear activists and special interest lobbyists when Australia has the world’s largest uranium reserves.
Read MoreThe protests in Hong Kong have rightly attracted international media attention. Escalating tensions frequently boil over into violence coming from both the police and pro-Beijing triads as well as hardcore elements among the protestors.
Read MoreHundreds of medical personnel from three hospitals across Hong Kong have staged sit-ins this week in resistance to the excessive violence used by police when responding to protests.
The savagery dished out by police was compared to that dished out by the triads in their infamous attack on passengers and protesters in Yuen Long train station.
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