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The problem with the Victorian Labor Party

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By BArry Jones, Barry Jones
| The Saturday Paper Verified
I joined the Australian Labor Party in February 1951, and 75 years later I remain a rather queasy life member. With a Victorian state election due in November, I am constantly asked to explain policy decisions or statements by Premier Jacinta Allan. I am acutely aware and embarrassed that I cannot understand, let alone explain or justify, policies or decisions I find baffling or abhorrent.
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Latest MRN Forecasts Point to Higher Than Expected Inflation for the Second Half of 2026

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By Huw Dixon, Jane M. Binner, BArry Jones, Barry Jones
| National Institute of Economic and Social Research
In this month’s update, we are trying something slightly new. We are taking the “simple” MRN (based on the CPI data alone), and adding one variable to it: the updated Divisia Price Dual (DPD). In addition, since the Divisia Dual is a cost-based index, we also include the simple MRN with the addition of the MPC rate. The DPD is produced by Barry Jones, as described in our previous blogs (see Binner et al 2025 for a detailed description) and is now complete up to and including December 2025.
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A minister for social cohesion

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By John Hewson, BArry Jones, Barry Jones
| The Saturday Paper Verified
A most important national challenge to all involved in our political process – especially government, opposition and media – is to restore social cohesion. Surely one of our great national successes was to build a tolerant and effective multi-ethnic, multireligious and multicultural nation, one that has as part of it the world’s longest surviving culture, and which until recent times was the envy of the rest of the world.
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