Michael Pascoe

Michael Pascoe is an independent journalist and commentator with five decades of experience here and abroad in print, broadcast and online journalism. His book, The Summertime of Our Dreams, is published by Ultimo Press.
Three decades of policy failure. Productivity Commission’s housing shame file

Three decades of policy failure. Productivity Commission’s housing shame file

The latest Productivity Commission report on government services underlines three decades of housing policy ...
Dutton’s dog whistle – why the grandstanding on antisemitism

Dutton’s dog whistle – why the grandstanding on antisemitism

What’s the political payoff for Peter Dutton’s all-the-way-with-Israel stance? The number of Australians ...
Will they or won’t they drop the rate? Big Four banks betting against the RBA

Will they or won’t they drop the rate? Big Four banks betting against the RBA

The Big 4 banks are betting the Australian Bureau of Statistics will prove tomorrow that the RBA has been wrong on ...
Sir Lunchalot Dutton and some uncomfortable truths

Sir Lunchalot Dutton and some uncomfortable truths

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is pulling level with Anthony Albanese as preferred Prime Minister, using the ...
Ignore the galahs. The RBA should cut interest rates.

Ignore the galahs. The RBA should cut interest rates.

The monetary policy galahs are squawking their usual lines about a strong labour market preventing the RBA ...
Crypto tip-toe: Jim Chalmers suddenly looking a tad desperate

Crypto tip-toe: Jim Chalmers suddenly looking a tad desperate

Contrary to what you might read in the AFR or Murdoch press, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been doing a solid enough ...
The LNP’s nuclear policy is working just fine

The LNP’s nuclear policy is working just fine

Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy announcement has been totally nuked, so to speak, but Michael Pascoe argues it is ...
Channeling Trump: dark motives behind Dutton’s Gaza dog whistle

Channeling Trump: dark motives behind Dutton’s Gaza dog whistle

Peter Dutton’s hyperbolic denunciation of Australia reinforcing existing policy on Palestine, along with its ...
Damned if you do: Jim Chalmers cops the blame for no recession

Damned if you do: Jim Chalmers cops the blame for no recession

Government spending is keeping Australia out of recession, just, as this week's feeble GDP numbers tallied 7 ...
Trump won, but not by a landslide. Does it matter?

Trump won, but not by a landslide. Does it matter?

Contrary to almost every headline, Donald Trump did not achieve his second coming by a landslide, at least not by ...
Australia in the Trumposphere: climate, trade, Asia and the new world order

Australia in the Trumposphere: climate, trade, Asia and the new world order

Trump 2.0 could provide a less-myopic Australia a chance to get with the strength. No, argues Michael Pascoe, that ...
Trumpification Australia. The winners and losers and what might be

Trumpification Australia. The winners and losers and what might be

What will Trump 2.0 mean for Australia? What will China do? But there are two similar questions to ask: what ...

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