Over that decade, interest deductions were higher than in 2022–23, leading to net rent income being negative. As a result, instead of paying some tax on their net rent income as happened in 2022–23, ...

Chris Murphy is a visiting fellow in Economics (modelling), Australian National University. He specialises in economy-wide modelling of tax policy and macroeconomic policy. He has consulted to the ...

The feeding machine scene in Modern Times now appears less absurd than diagnostic. The machine is designed to eliminate lunch breaks so that production never stops. It malfunctions, violently, ...

Every powerful actor in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict professes to seek peace. The US and EU repeat the two state mantra, the Arab states invoke Palestinian rights, AIPAC proclaims its defense of ...

The chairwoman of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, Virginia Bell, has not disappointed in presenting an interim report on the date that was originally given to the Dennis ...

Take for example, the hospitality industry. According to a February 2026 report in The Guardian between December 2024 and December 2025, it was estimated that the US hospitality industry lost 98,000 ...

King Charles III is in the United States on a repair job, playing diplomatic handyman and mender for Sir Keir Starmer and the US-UK alliance so long regarded as special. On the occasion of the 250 th ...

The organisation despairingly notes that the Index's legal indicator has registered a sharp fall in 2026. "This score deteriorated in more than 60% of states – 110 out of 180 – between 2025 and 2026." ...

Australian Population Research Institute (TAPRI) has researched this disjunct, between immigration attitudes of the governing classes and governed. A 2023 TAPRI report found an educated minority (19% ...

These policies are often defended as pragmatic responses to public safety concerns, homelessness, and untreated mental illness. Critics typically object on utilitarian grounds (questioning ...

At the peak of recent tensions, up to 10–12 million barrels per day of oil-roughly one-fifth of global trade-was at risk, alongside significant LNG flows. Refining and product supply chains were also ...

The Australian government has a serious spending problem. In recent years the federal government’s spending level has surged to now sit at an estimated 26.9 per cent of GDP, with little sign of ...