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THE WHITE FLAG
Treasury Rings Alarm On Surplus As Budget Hole Means Decade Of Deficits
Hockey Plays It Cool On Chances Of Any Tax Cuts

Why is Europe so messed up?: An illuminating history
China's brutal one-child policy
The saga of the flaming zucchini

For the first time in decades, Australia will go to an election with neither of the major parties offering tax cuts. In fact, both will take a new tax to the polls in the form of a levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme. Pre...

Why is Europe so messed up?: An illuminating history "It's all quite mad, but that doesn't mean it will end anytime soon. Indeed, about the only things that seem likely to change the situation are another blow up in the bond markets or a...