May 2025

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When the Sheriff comes for your Super

The Albanese government, fresh from electoral victory and emboldened by a tighter alliance with the Greens, has wasted no time signalling its intentions: the nation’s nest eggs are in its sights with their plans to tax unrealised gains on super accounts over $3m. It was a policy that seemed to go with minimal challenge by Dutton during the election campaign, no doubt paralysed in fear that he would be accused of pandering to the 80,000

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Sussan Ley no longer barking up the wrong tree

When the Facts Change: In Praise of Politicians Who Pivot “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?” That famous line, attributed to John Maynard Keynes, ought to be stitched into the lapels of every politician wandering through Parliament House with a talking point in one hand and a Twitter poll in the other. Out here in the Wheatbelt, we know better than most that stubbornness is a vice when the

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