By Emilie Dye | The National Interest
Before Americans consider mimicking Australia's coronavirus response, they should consider the full costs of heavy-handed governance.
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By Emilie Dye and James Skibinski | The Daily Telegraph
While most of the western world is in recession because of COVID-19 lockdowns, China has been busy gearing up their export machine. Australia’s over-dependence on China led to massive supply shortages and panic earlier this year.
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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator
Albert Einstein pointed out the obvious when he said, “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” This year alone the Australian Border Force’s Illicit Tobacco Task-force seized 421 million cigarettes and 175 tonnes of loose leaf tobacco. The regular excise tax increases for tobacco products has made the illicit trade increasingly profitable.
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By Emilie Dye | The Daily Telegraph
According to Service NSW, Victorian farmers will only be able to get their lambs to market when sheep fly. Sydney based bureaucrats don’t see anything odd about loading 40 sheep onto an aeroplane in Melbourne, flying them to Sydney, then driving them to Corowa Sheep Yards on the border of Victoria. Our draconian COVID-19 restrictions have entered and ventured well into the realm of the ridiculous.
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By Emilie Dye | Orange Country Register
California is once again robbing its residents of opportunity. Sobbing hearts have decided gig workers aren’t earning enough money or receiving the benefits they deserve. In January, California changed labor law to make it more difficult for companies to hire workers as independent contractors. Now a judge has ruled that Uber and Lyft are breaking that law and must classify their drivers as “employees.”
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By Julia Kokic | The Daily Telegraph
First-year university students who fail more than half of their subjects are set to lose HECS support. Universities and student activists will sob about the harshness of this decision, but as a university student, I support this type of tough love.
By Emilio Garcia | The Spectator
Santa came early this year for traditional media monoliths who will soon profit at the expense of independent content creators, small businesses, and everyday Australians….
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By Julia Kokic | The Mercury
Tax reform is not a subject that makes you dinner party invitee of choice. But if we don’t have an adult conversation about payroll tax soon, we could condemn an entire generation of Tasmanian youth to joblessness. Businesses are enjoying a reprieve from payroll tax as a result of COVID-19. But as we enter the new financial year, the Tasmanian government appears to have no plans to extend the tax relief.
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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator
Australians in every state are waiting anxiously for lockdown restrictions to ease. Businesses stand poised to flip their signs to “Open”. But despite our thoughts and prayers, Australia’s economy isn’t going to suddenly spring back to life as pasty consumers emerge from their homes blinking at bright storefront lights.
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By Julia Kokic | The Spectator
National crises challenge liberal democracy more than anything else. Citizens surrender civil liberties they couldn’t imagine living without in ordinary times. During the coronavirus pandemic, the adage “desperate times call for desperate measures” feels painfully apt. The coronavirus has effectively put all of Australia under house arrest, restricted our freedom of movement, and even taken away many of our livelihoods. For some reason when we are afraid, we look to the government. The era of our first Anzacs was no different.
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By Jacob Watts | The Spectator
Australia contributed $63.7 million in 2018 for the two year WHO budget. We need to pull funding from WHO until further notice as we are funding a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party. When our belts are being tightened, we need to focus on our national interests and not empowering unelected globalist elites that are out of touch and uncountable.
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By Julia Kokic | The Spectator
Gen Z has come face to face with our first crisis, and it isn’t the climate emergency. Coronavirus is sweeping through the globe, forcing people into long-periods of self-isolation. The Australian economy is looking down the barrel of our first recession after 29 consecutive years of growth.
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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator
Yesterday, we poor taxpayers paid the ABC to reprimand us for stockpiling alcohol in case of a lockdown. This prompted me to plop down at my home computer with a large glass of wine and say a few things about the nanny state.
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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator
Yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenburg announced their $189 billion eight-plus point plan to stimulate the economy in response to the coronavirus slowdown. For context, if the ATO were to issue a blanket tax refund to everyone working in Australia, this stimulus package would add up to $17,700 per person.
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BY BRIAN MARLOW
Together we can ensure common sense and level heads will prevail. We immensely appreciate the ongoing donations of supporters like you, who have always kept our lights on, and we of course understand that for some this is no longer a possibility for the immediate future.
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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator
Liberals Tim Wilson, Craig Kelly, Jason Falinski and James Paterson are grinding Treasurer Josh Frydenburg’s gears by demanding we send the luxury car tax the way of the dodo (or the Holden). The luxury car tax was introduced in 2000 to protect the domestic car industry, but like most protectionistic policies it has failed.
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By Julia Kokic | The Spectator
Another one bites the dust in Australian manufacturing. This time it’s Holden. Across Australia, people are lamenting the end of the iconic automotive brand. While the nostalgia of ‘football, meat-pies, kangaroos and Holden cars’ is strong, the market is stronger.
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By Brian Marlow | The Daily Telegraph
Spare a thought for the Aussie spirit that’s being battered and bruised by bureaucratic busybodies. On Sunday, a group of local heroes on the central coast banded together to try and save homes near Tuggerah lakes from the coming onslaught of torrential rain that rocked NSW’s east coast, flooded towns and destroyed the power grid for tens of thousands of homes
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By Julia Kokic | The Spectator
Through an open and competitive energy market, Australian can achieve the holy energy trinity: cheap, clean, and reliable. In 2020, let’s deregulate. Government intervention in the energy market forced electricity prices through the ceiling and made our energy supply less reliable. There is a reason Sydneysiders pay some of the highest utility bills in the world, bills comparable to those paid by New Yorkers in a city notorious for its unaffordability.
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By Emilie Dye | The Daily Telegraph
The Senate Economics Committee is holding a hearing on January 30 in Sydney to discuss restricting people from using Australia’s own currency. The bill, intended to stop illegal activity, would stop law abiding Aussies from making cash purchases over $10,000, even if those purchases were made over multiple payments.
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