Auto-Industrialism: DIY Capitalism and the Rise of the Auto-Industrial Society […]

After Malcolm Turnbull became prime minister last year the veteran […]

That Labor might punish savers is lamentable but not surprising, as it long ago morphed into the party of public servants, welfare beneficiaries and feather-bedded union mates. That Liberals are casting an acquisitive eye on the wealth of those who worked, earned and saved is appalling

Slowly, as if awakening from a drug-induced phantasmagoria, some of those erstwhile Abbott-backers are asking themselves what they have done. Their deepest fear is that by changing leaders they have not just changed the country but the party

Labor's enduring and tragic delusion, encouraged by admirers such as those who put together the ABC's recent Killing Season series, is its utter faith that it managed the economy with aplomb, did not overspend and navigated the GFC with a sure and steady hand

Now that Abbott & Co are enjoying a resurgence in the polls and Bill Shorten's union past is casting its shadow, the usual suspects -- Fairfax and the ABC -- are beating up Joe Hockey for daring to note that house prices are high and likely to remain so until regulations are pared and supply increased

While ideological conservatives hunger for the bold reforms of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, voters in these troubled times respond not to radical rhetoric but reassurance. Tony Abbott has taken note, as next week's budget will demonstrate