Michael Pascoe
Michael Pascoe: The RBA bungle and the huge money wasted on a ‘marginal’ policy
Remember the Reserve Bank’s $356 billion bond purchase program? Probably not, but it’s costing us $40 billion or so and achieved bugger-all....
Michael Pascoe: Dutton’s party takes another jump to the right
The National Party going the full Don Quixote tilting at windmills this week has been billed in some quarters as a problem...
Michael Pascoe: No, the headlines are wrong – the RBA is pushing rates higher
While all the headlines say the Reserve Bank decided to keep rates steady, the ugly truth was tucked away in the fine...
Michael Pascoe: We can’t rely on developers to fix housing crisis
If you were running the state suffering the very worst of Australia’s housing disaster, a state where the number of public and...
Michael Pascoe: Treasury degraded to PR spinners – what everyone’s missed
Overshadowed by the politics surrounding the stage-three tax cut changes is the sad matter of Treasury proving incompetent, or so degraded by...
Michael Pascoe: Lamb shock, but at least Oz Day is right this year
While the culture warriors subject our flag to sartorial abuse and swear our very existence depends on a merely 30-year-old public holiday,...
Michael Pascoe: Not the ‘broken promise’ or policy rethink, it’s Albanese’s bumbling politics that worry
To be clear, the proposed adjustment to the stage-three tax cuts is a big improvement on the ideological trap set by Scott...
Michael Pascoe: For all the talk, public and social housing just got worse
The Productivity Commission has released a damning report on Australia’s worsening public and community housing disaster. Needs have increased, supply has not...
Michael Pascoe: The outrage over Gaza killings but we do it, too
It shouldn’t be too surprising that the US and its loyal allies Australia and the UK have been somewhat muted in their...
Michael Pascoe: Two or three RBA rate hikes – that’s the stage-three tax cuts
Spare me anyone again asking the Prime Minister or the Treasurer if the stage-three tax cuts will go ahead. They’ve told us...