The big jump in the CPI has created some dramatic headlines, but digging just a bit deeper into the data reveals a different story. 

How have a select few accumulated such colossal wealth while many Australians struggle?

With the federal budget looming, a gas export tax would drive down prices and fund vital public services at a time when Australians are feeling the pinch.

Australia is one of the largest exporters of gas in the world, yet beer drinkers pay more tax than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resources Rent Tax.

It reads like a dystopian sci-fi novel, but the latest IMF report on the global economy refuses to name the orange elephant in the room.

The US president is wreaking havoc in Iran and around the world.

There is no reason our societies can’t change radically, to produce more of what we need and less of the things that are sowing the seeds of our own destruction, says Yanis Varoufakis.

Until a 25% gas export tax is put in place, Australians are missing out on billions every year that could be used to support people through the living standards crisis.

Despite big talk from the government about punishing any fuel retailers profiteering from the global energy crisis, many forms of price gouging remain perfectly legal.

A 25% gas export tax would drive down gas prices for Australians and collect billions of dollars that can be used to provide better, cheaper health and education services. 

Australians are already paying a price for the illegal US-Israel war on Iran, so why did the Reserve Bank double down and raise rates again?

Now costing Australian governments $31,020 per minute, fossil fuel subsidies are growing faster than spending on the NDIS.

You’re meant to tax things you want less of and subsidise things you want more of – yet Australian governments are handing out $16.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies this financial year.

In the MAGAverse, it’s white men who are born to rule – at home and abroad.

The joint US-Israel war on Iran could have serious, lasting impacts on the global economy.

The far-right is benefitting from a failing status quo – but it doesn’t have to be this way.

Australia is a low taxing nation, but Shadow Treasurer Tim Wilson still seems to want the highest earners to pay less.

Wages aren’t driving higher inflation, so why do workers always seem to cop the blame?

Inequality creates insecurity and, as the United States is demonstrating right now, that insecurity can have devasting consequences for democracy.

On the back of ongoing tax concessions primarily benefitting the wealthiest and the government’s five per cent deposit scheme for first home buyers, Australia has just broken a new record for average home loan size.

The privatisation of Australian high school education, originally led by the Howard government, has caused prices to soar.

With inflation driven by Christmas holidays and data centres for artificial intelligence, the RBA didn’t need to raise the interest rate this week, argues Matt Grudnoff.

Even the Mathias Cormann-led OECD says the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are a problem.

The Australian government can’t keep its head in the sand and hope the chaos of the Trump administration will just go away.

What would it take to make the PALM scheme a genuine win-win for Australia and its neighbours?