There are three numbers Australians should walk away from the last twenty four hours of Senate estimates remembering.
Every twenty years, give or take, the British Left rediscovers the wealth tax. They rediscover it with the bright-eyed conviction of a Labrador rediscovering a tennis ball under the sofa, and with roughly the same level of new information.
There is a certain quality of light that falls across the western plains in late autumn, a light my father used to call "the bachelor's hour" because it found you alone whether you wanted to be or not.
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In Australia, childcare has become increasingly important as more parents enter the workforce and rely on childcare services to care for their children.
Free trade and globalisation have hollowed out the middle class of developed western countries, suppressing wages and living standards below those experienced before these two forces reshaped economies.
Let us not over state it. The Liberal Party has faced difficult times in the past and will do so again in the future.