In Australia, Labor's recent changes to the Capital Gains Tax and Negative Gearing provisions were based on financial modelling by Commonwealth Treasury. Has Treasury got the modelling right or wrong and the questions that economists are asking Treasury to reveal that may have contributed to the loss of a Trillion Dollars in residential property values around Australia.

A satirical interview with Steven Paull playing playing Dr Jim Chalmers and Graham Higgins asking the quesions:

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The Liberals Have a One Nation Problem …

Have They Learned Nothing in 40 Years?

I've been watching what's happening between the Liberal Party and One Nation with a growing sense of déjà vu.

Because nearly forty years ago, I watched something remarkably similar from inside Parliament House.

I was working as a political staffer for a federal frontbencher who had also been President of the Liberal Party in Queensland.

And in 1987 the Liberal leadership was being torn apart by Joh Bjelke-Petersen's extraordinary “Joh for Canberra” campaign ....

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Can money buy political influence?

or are voters more discerning?

Can Australia's Richest person Mrs Gina Rinehart use her money to boost One Nation into government?

Is democracy under threat or are Australians smart enough to see what's happening?

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