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Should you leave your money in superannuation or put it towards a deposit for a first home?

Allowing first home buyers to draw their superannuation will likely, over time, push up house prices, according to many leading economists, but are you better off leaving your money in your super fund or pulling it out for a home deposit?

ABC News · May 16, 2022

Will lifting the minimum wage worsen inflation and raise interest rates?

Wages have become the latest battleground in the election, with debate raging about how much extra workers can get paid without sending businesses broke and consumer prices soaring.

ABC News · May 12, 2022

A clean future or merely greenwashing? Critics claim Coalition's hydrogen plans are a 'fig leaf' for fossil fuels

Plans by the federal government to develop a "clean" hydrogen industry in Australia have been branded greenwashing by critics who say taxpayer money is being used to subsidise fossil fuel activities.

ABC News · May 11, 2022

Morrison government’s $7.4bn in dam commitments could be ‘biggest pork barrel in history’

Exclusive: Report says majority of funds ‘allocated to where the National party vote is highest’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 20, 2022

Gains for Labor in three post-budget polls, as budget has weak response compared with historical record

The polls presented here are in addition to Monday’s Newspoll (54-46 to Labor) and Ipsos (55-45 to Labor), which I covered here.

The Conversation · Apr 7, 2022

‘Judge me on my actions’: can Andrew Forrest become Australia’s clean, green hero?

The billionaire mining magnate known as Twiggy may be emulating Bill Gates with the scale of his philanthropy, but not everyone is convinced

The Guardian - AU · Mar 26, 2022

Tax rise for low- and middle-income workers possible as LMITO's fate hangs on federal budget

With cost-of-living concerns dogging the government ahead of next week's federal budget and the upcoming election, experts are again questioning whether its tax cuts are directed at those who need them most.

ABC News · Mar 24, 2022

Labor government would present second 2022 budget to correct ‘decade of rorts and waste’, shadow treasurer says

Jim Chalmers says if elected, an Albanese government will deliver a ‘proper’ budget before the end of the year to amend ‘damage of the last 10 years’

The Guardian - AU · Mar 21, 2022

Western Sydney will swelter through 46 days per year over 35°C by 2090, unless emissions drop significantly

If emissions continue to accelerate, Western Sydney can expect to endure up to 46 days per year over 35℃ by 2090, a new analysis from the Australia Institute finds. This is a fivefold increase from the historical average of just under nine days of extreme heat per year.

The Conversation · Feb 16, 2022

Men on high incomes to take lion’s share of Coalition’s $184bn tax cuts, analyses find

Government’s ‘trickle down disaster’ will further entrench inequality between men and women, Greens say

The Guardian - AU · Feb 16, 2022