Terry McCrann

May 21, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Christian Edwards |Terry McCrann |Ewin Hannan

CoreLogic head of research and housing guru Eliza Owen has weighed up the federal budget’s property moves – and found them wanting in three key areas. There had been talk the budget would have housing as one of its set pieces, but Treasurer Jim Chalmers made three big “misses” when it came to the Australian property sector on Tuesday last, Owen said. She’s spent a shot while considering the document and outlined the three opportunities that have been lost.

May 6, 2024 | theaustralian.com.au | Terry McCrann |Robyn Ironside |James Dowling |Sunday Telegraph ..

Qantas will pay out up to $450 in compensation to customers affected by its flight cancellation policy, after the airline admitted it had misled passengers. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched legal action against the airline in August 2023, claiming it sold tickets for 8000 “ghost flights” between May and July 2022.

Jan 28, 2024 | independentaustralia.net | Alan Austin |Terry McCrann

Perspective is needed on the substantial reforms of the income tax schedules Prime Minister Albanese announced last Thursday, Alan Austin reports. LAST WEEK SAW the most nauseating display of faux-outrage and high dudgeon from the craven clowns in the Canberra Press Gallery since they falsely accused Julia Gillard of lying when voters stymied her carbon trading scheme in 2010.

Nov 21, 2023 | heraldsun.com.au | Terry McCrann

Has Treasurer Jim Chalmers actually got himself – and the rest of us - a more hawkish Reserve Bank governor in Michele Bullock than her predecessor Philip Lowe? Now, we obviously got something of a hint in that direction with her – to be more exact, the RBA board’s – Cup Day rate hike, the first since June. Now true, Governor Lowe could well have also led the board to a Cup Day hike, if he’d still been there – given the September quarter inflation numbers.

Aug 21, 2023 | cairnspost.com.au | Terry McCrann

We started the week with the ‘Big Biz’ fantasy reform plan to build a ‘Bigger, Better Australia’ and we are going to end it with the statistical fantasies of Treasury purporting to tell us what the 2063 Australia – certainly bigger but just as certainly not better - will look like.