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Nov 3, 2026
Mostly yes, but the sharpest line runs between owners and renters, and it cuts deeper than income.
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Nov 1, 2026
Canberra's spending keeps your interest rate about one rise higher. It didn't cause this year's inflation jump, and one government cut made the number worse.
Oct 30, 2026
Young startups mostly keep today's tax deal, but the next stage of growth faces one of the rich world's toughest tax bills.
Oct 29, 2026
Yes at the till, for those three items. The catch is how little of your bill they are, and what happened in the countries that tried it.
Health
Oct 26, 2026
Labor's $1.5 billion plan builds more room at the front door of 12 hospitals, but the longest queue sits further inside.
Oct 23, 2026
The gas half of this claim stands up far better than the mining half, and the gap that survives still runs to billions.
Oct 20, 2026
A $55,000 tax cut sounds like a door opening, but the evidence says most of it lands with people who were already walking through.
Oct 19, 2026
Labor's new cap would make the daily commute cheap, but the best Australian evidence says it will mostly reward people already on the train.
Oct 17, 2026
House prices started falling before the budget, and the Reserve Bank has now raised rates five times this year. The official models still put most of the blame on rates.
Oct 15, 2026
Barely, on the best evidence, but the real cost lands in pensioners' budgets and in quiet policy downgrades that nobody in Canberra has counted.
Oct 12, 2026
Canberra wants exporters to keep up to a fifth of their gas at home, but the real prize is a price spike that never happens.
Oct 11, 2026
Its polls say it could, but the one real election test of a vote that size handed it four seats out of 47.
