Commentary on state and federal finances

Super: Reckless Labor's great unfunded swindle
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Brumby hailed as Mr Responsible as debt triples to $39b
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mayne: Mining slug mainly hits multinationals, so who cares?
Monday, May 3, 2010

Revealed: the Liberal Party's $58m share portfolio
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Joe Ludwig's dad shows the real campaign finance agenda
Monday, 8 February 2010

Mayne digs some donations data dirt
Monday, 1 February 2010

Rudd cuddles up to greedy extreme capitalists
Friday, 6 February 2009

Rudd's brilliant disaster diversion from China donations scandal
Tuesday, 3 February 2009

The reckless stimulus package we didn't need
Wednesday, 15 October, 2008

How a $12 billion surplus would have helped Kevin
Thursday, 10 July 2008

Time again for the debt truck?
Wednesday, 4 June 2008

The $25 billion debt expansion and tax cut that wasn't in the budget
Wednesday, 21 May 2008

Solving Swan's $100b super liability discrepancy
Thursday, 15 May 2008

Mayne: Making a mockery of budget accounting
Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Mayne: Infrastructure fund hide state bailouts
Wednesday, 14 May 2008

Did the credit-crunch hit revenue? Don't believe it for a second
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

15 minutes, 13 questions: inside the Swan press conference
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Doing the budget security crawl
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

The budget paper storm
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Will Swan keeps his hands out of the Reserve Bank till?
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Mayne Diary: Who and what I saw in Canberra
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Yet another Future Fund accounting rort from Costello
Crikey, September 4, 2007