Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe: No, the wage case shouldn’t panic the RBA
Few things are more predictable than the usual business lobby suspects warning that life as we know it will end if wages...
Michael Pascoe: How to ethically minimise income tax
June – the winter solstice, the bare London plane trees in our street briefly not dropping stuff of one type or another,...
Michael Pascoe: Waiting for other PwC shoes to drop all over Canberra
While the hunters are in full tally-ho mode pursuing the PwC fox finally flushed out of the Canberra thicket, there is a...
Michael Pascoe: We urgently need a real national security review
For all the effort of current Labor and LNP politicians to talk tough and spend big on defence, wrapping themselves in the...
Michael Pascoe: The ‘A’ in ALP stands for Albanese
Something rather important has been largely overlooked in all the words devoted to the first anniversary of the 2022 election – Anthony...
Michael Pascoe: Why you might never see that ‘wage growth’ we hear about
One thing we know for sure about the Reserve Bank of Australia – it knows even less about the outlook for wage...
Michael Pascoe: JobSeeker can be higher than the minimum wage
The thing about increasing the JobSeeker payment – both the government and the Opposition want to make the cut-off for it higher...
Michael Pascoe: The ratings are in: Dutton’s a dud – a dangerous dud
Forget the various polls and pundits, the real voice of the Australian people has spoken: Peter Dutton is a dud – and...
Michael Pascoe: Still waiting for the real budget boot to drop
Did the Treasury Secretary keep schtum in the Reserve Bank board room last week, not warning that Jim Chalmers was about to...
Michael Pascoe: Hiding in plain sight, Labor commits to further big fossil fuel projects
What the, er, hell? Is it possible that nobody else saw the big story in Jim Chalmers’ sweetheart deal with Big Carbon...