Shane Wright

3 days ago | theage.com.au | Paul Sakkal |Shane Wright

By Paul Sakkal and Shane WrightUpdated June 4, 2025 — 5.47pmfirst published at 1.40pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Coalition has shut the door on a deal with Labor to pass a watered-down tax on paper profits for wealthy superannuants, setting up an agreementwith the Greens as Treasurer Jim Chalmers attacked media and political opponents of the revenue-raising move.

5 days ago | smh.com.au | Paul Sakkal |Shane Wright

By Paul Sakkal and Shane Wright June 2, 2025 — 7.30pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A powerful bloc of eastern states is demanding Prime Minister Anthony Albanese fix the broken GST system, as influential economists urge the government to use its thumping election mandate to wean Western Australia off a sweetheart deal on track to cost taxpayers $60 billion over 11 years.

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Shane Wright

Senior economics correspondent May 29, 2025 — 5.15am, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It was the brilliant American journalist Bob Woodward (of Watergate fame) who supposedly came up with the term that “democracy dies in darkness”.

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Shane Wright

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1 week ago | smh.com.au | Olivia Ireland |Shane Wright

By Olivia Ireland and Shane Wright May 26, 2025 — 4.02pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Health Minister Mark Butler wants significant attention paid to discovering why the rate of informal votes has almost tripled in hospitals and aged care centres as it potentially affects the results of closely contested electorates.