During the election we were promised jobs and growth. But in 2019-20 The Conversation’s forecasting panel is predicting an economic growth rate as weak as any since the financial crisis, as well as dismal consumer spending, no improvement in unemployment or wage growth, and an increased chance of recession. By […]
At the NSW Australian Labor Party NSW Conference at the Sydney Town Hall, I was lining up with other delegates to vote for the various ballots for office As it happened, I was standing in the queue with Anthony Albanese. By Andrew Woodward, Labor candidate for Cowper in the 2019 […]
In April, renewables provided 23% compared to coal’s 20% ‘The fate of coal has been sealed. The market has spoken’ The US generated more electricity from renewable sources than coal for the first time ever in April, new federal government data has shown. By Oliver Milman The US generated more […]
The Australian economy is in recession. Rather than heeding sound advice from the Reserve Bank the Coalition’s response is to so far to do the opposite. By Ian McAuley Four charts summarise the economic situation facing Australia. The first shows economic growth over the last twenty years. As in 2008, […]
Right now Labor is preoccupied with its defeat and is not the major obstacle to coalition survival. By Jack Waterford When federal parliament resumes, the mockery coming to Labor from the government benches will seem to many opposition politicians far greater than they can bear. They really did have expectations, […]
It took just a month after the election for the miraculous Morrison mob to dial back up to peak crazy. By Mungo MacCallum And unsurprisingly the paranoid megalomania was enunciated by the elected dictator, Peter Dutton. His omnipotence has been challenged by the insurrectionists of the Federal Court, in particular […]
The alternatives to a deal are looking better to both the U.S. and China, which means the prospects for an agreement are looking worse. It’s possible a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at next week’s G-20 summit will result in an “agreement to agree” on […]
The late Bob Hawke was more honest in his political views and determination to better the country than our current leaders, writes Mungo MacCallum. By Mungo Macallum Bob Hawke’s widow Blanche d’Alpuget summed it up best: his was “a life triumphantly well-lived”. The state memorial service last week sent the […]