Ballooning Military Spending Comes At A Cost
“We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms,”…More
Author: Ben Eltham
Ben Eltham
Ben Eltham is New Matilda's National Affairs Correspondent.
Victorian Parliamentary Circus Remains A Shaw Thing
You’ve got to hand it to Victorian MLA Geoff Shaw. He certainly makes state politics…More
A Bolt From The Blue Sends The Govt Off Message
An unpopular prime minister, languishing in the polls. A charismatic former leader, who appears to…More
Students Are Right To Rage Over Debt
Another day, another student protest. This one was in Melbourne’s CBD, where a small group…More
Sending All The Wrong Signals
Price signals. You’ve heard a lot about these curious indicators lately. Treasurer Joe Hockey is…More
How To End The Deficit Without Screwing The Poor
Mark Twain said that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. So, too, for New…More
The Rich And The Rhetoric Won The Day
Joe Hockey’s much-leaked first budget promised wholesale surgery to the Australian body politic. It has…More
Highlights Of Hockey's 2014 Budget
Joe Hockey’s first budget is strong on the rhetoric of sacrifice. “It is time for…More
Abbott's Targeted Attack On Ordinary Australia
The Commission of Audit has laid bare the neoliberal agenda driving the Abbott government’s assault…More
What's Hockey Hiding?
The current hearings of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in New South Wales are not…More