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The monetary policy galahs are squawking their usual lines about a strong labour market preventing the RBA trimming rates next month, but Michael Pascoe argues the RBA’s integrity will be open to question if it doesn’t cut. The labour market is actually saying the Reserve Bank has been woefully wrong. “You had one job,” as […]
The Government commissioned an official history of our operations in Timor and then censored the historian, removing an entire chapter. The partially redacted chapter obtained by MWM confirms lies told by the Howard Government. Rex Patrick reports. In 2015, the Australian Government commissioned the War Memorial to write an official history of our peacekeeping operations […]
Contrary to what you might read in the AFR or Murdoch press, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been doing a solid enough job, writes Michael Pascoe, but he’s suddenly looking desperate. Jim Chalmers has been one of the steady hands as the good ship Albo began to drift over 2024. He has stayed steady despite being […]
There’s an outcry over Australian government funding of think tanks. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s ego may have taken a hit but hardly its funding. Marcus Reubenstein looks at the future of Canberra’s biggest war cheerleaders. It’s hard to know where to begin with the Varghese review into federal government funding of strategic policy think […]
With ex-partners suing them, the parliament grilling them, the government firing them, AFP investigating them, and media lambasting them, the scandal-ridden PwC has their lawyers pick on an academic. Marcus Reubenstein reports. Andy Schmulow, an associate professor from the University of Wollongong, has made a name for himself, calling out the wrongdoings of the Big […]
One rule for the unions, another for business. While Nine Entertainment mastheads have been battering the CFMEU, when it comes to similar practices by developers, they look the other way. Marcus Reubenstein with the story. The CFMEU construction division is smouldering in administration following reports of links to organised crime aired by Nine Entertainment. But […]