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Alan Kohler: Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?

A desire to pay less tax is part of the conservative mindset, which will make it more persistent even if Professor Stiglitz is right about government.

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Alan Kohler: The three things our Energy Minister must do

The planet is heating much faster than expected – and it’s clear that net-zero emissions by 2050 will not be enough, writes Alan Kohler.

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Inequality has worsened and the budget is shot, so means test everything

Casuals with no access to sick leave obviously need to be looked after by the government, but everyone else should be told to look after themselves.

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Alan Kohler: Labor’s love affair with summits continues

Labor governments love having summits. Hawke had two, Rudd had one and now Albanese is having one. It's down to their bent towards consensus building.

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Alan Kohler: Look to the west to find out how to get the end of coal right

The state governments of NSW, Queensland and Victoria should look to Collie in WA for a model of how to transition away from coal.

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Alan Kohler: Australia’s expensive climate change double whammy

Australia’s net-zero commitment has always just been a matter of us doing our part of the global effort.. But that global effort is now in tatters.

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Alan Kohler: A recession we don’t have to have is coming, and it will be the RBA’s fault

The RBA has turned on a sixpence, from smiling benignly and welcoming some inflation to sprouting horns and bringing on a recession we didn't have to have.

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Alan Kohler: Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme, it’s an outcome of capitalism’s failure

Bitcoin is a magnet for the victims of modern capitalism, like lottery tickets, and is therefore both a symptom and a symbol of its failures.

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Alan Kohler: Sentient or not, AI needs regulating

We need the digital equivalent of the ingredients lists and nutrition panels we get on food packets: We deserve to know what is being put in our minds.

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Alan Kohler: Albanese’s note to self – Don’t get blamed for the Morrison crises

Governments usually change after a recession, not before one, so the job is a nice one – to manage the recovery. But this time is different.

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Alan Kohler: The NDIS could crush the Labor government

The Albanese government faces something of a classic Hobson’s Choice when it comes to the revamping the NDIS, writes Alan Kohler.

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Alan Kohler: The two great stupidities behind our inflation

Here’s a wild idea for economists to smile at condescendingly: How about the Reserve Bank stands back and lets this inflation episode run its course.

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Alan Kohler: It’s 1973 all over again, but with a greater energy cost for Australia

After a century of gearing the entire global economy to burning fossil fuels, it was never going to be easy or cheap to switch to sunshine and wind.

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Alan Kohler: We all lose when monopolists prosper

The role of government is to correct the tendency towards monopoly and inequality through regulation, but they have been falling down on the job.

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Alan Kohler: Jim Chalmers needs an inquiry into tax

By far the best thing Jim Chalmers could do for his party and the country would be to find a way to escape the 23.9 per cent limit on tax to GDP.

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Alan Kohler: Here’s a crazy idea for the Liberal Party – sensible policies

If the Liberal Party goes to the right, whatever that means, it will be doomed and politics in Australia will be transformed.

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Alan Kohler: This was Julia Gillard’s election victory

It’s tempting to think the Coalition lost the election purely because of climate change, but there’s much more to it than that.

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Alan Kohler: The major parties have no plan for housing affordability

The Coalition’s idea of letting first-home buyers use their super to buy a house is another stinker in a long line of housing policy stinkers.

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Alan Kohler: The time for lazy, comfortable government is over

If Treasurer Josh Frydenberg loses his seat on Saturday his best legacy could end up being his commissioning of a review of Australian productivity.

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Alan Kohler: The real story of the budget is that Treasury got the pandemic wrong

The overriding fact of federal government finances in 2022, and everything about last night’s budget, is that Treasury got the pandemic entirely wrong.

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Alan Kohler: The ‘dodgy schemes’ hiding the real cost of climate action

The Morrison government tolerates dodgy carbon offsets because they keep the price of credits down, helping to hide the real cost of climate action.

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Whatever happens from here, Putin has already changed the world

Instigated by Putin, the war has come down to two competing pressures – the wretched human toll of Russia’s brutality versus the sanctions against it.

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Inflation, cost-of-living increases leave people struggling to afford everyday items

Inflation in Australia is officially 3.5 per cent, but the prices of many everyday items, especially petrol, are rising much faster and this new era of higher inflation has only just begun.

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Alan Kohler: China is at a crossroads, which means Australia is too

It looks like Australia will finally have to confront the problem of trading with a repugnant dictatorship, unless China dumps its partnership with Russia.

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Alan Kohler: Don’t touch the petrol excise. It’s Australia’s carbon tax

Petrol excise is Australia’s de facto carbon tax – cutting it would confirm that the Morrison government is not serious about dealing with climate change.

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