Houses and Holes

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of <i>The Great Crash of 2008</i> with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second <i>Garnaut Climate Change Review</i>.

One party state Australia says fix budget

Newspoll has dispensed with two-party preferred polling since February this year, nominally owing to the rise of One Nation but probably because the Murdoch press finds it too painful to produce a weekly poll that describes Labour’s one-party state like a metronome.

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