Whilst Australia seems unconcerned about the TPPA, over the ditch the Kiwis are up in arms and have taken to the streets.
Last week Joe Hockey released the Intergenerational Report. It is a thinly veiled attempt to show that the government's last budget was the only way to save our future.
The average Sydney house price is now well over the $850k mark. So what's pushing prices so high and will we ever see the bubble burst?
There are 3.4 million Australians aged over 65 – in ten years’ time that’ll be 4.6 million, in twenty years 6.1 million. Can we really afford to keep them in the manner they'd like to be accustomed?
Whilst the US President has promised to lift the US minimum wage to a level where people could afford to eat, Walmart has unilaterally adding a few extra dollars on the payback of its half a million low income workers.