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Why The Aussie Economy is F*cked

1 hour 33 minutes Posted Jun 30, 2026 at 10:23 am.

The Hidden Tax Nobody Voted For

What Is Inflation Really?

Why Governments Want Your Money to Lose Value

Capital Gains: How the Goalposts Just Moved

Why High-Growth Investment Gets Punished Most

James's Plan to Dodge the Tax Man

Is the Stock Market Even Worth the Risk Now?

Are Australia's Politicians Thick or Deceptive?

Did Labor Politicians Just Commit Insider Trading?

Pulling the Ladder Up on Negative Gearing

Australia Is in Economic Trouble

The Immigration Trap: Six Years Locked Out

The 457 Visa That Vanished Overnight

What GDP Growth Actually Hides

The Festival Trick That Explains the Economy

Printing Money Is Just Diluting You

Government Waste and the $70,000 Plaque

Three Tiers: Government, Employment, Self-Employed

The Curse of Never Switching Off

Chasing a Billion-Dollar Exit for Neutonic

Why the Journey Beats the Payday

A Petrolhead's Defence of Buying the Car

Why Ripping It for Ten Kids Is Worth It

Smiles Per Mile vs Saving It All

The Revolver Logic of Retirement

Should You Buy a House or a GT3?

Why Buy When the Market Feels Worst

The Leverage Play Explained

Will Gen Z Just Inherit It All Anyway?

Are We Heading For a Death Tax?

The Welfare Trap: Better Off Not Working

You Get Less of What You Tax

Will Australia Lose Its Entrepreneurs?

Tall Poppy Syndrome vs the American Way

Closing Advice for the Everyday Punter

What the Government Must Do to Save the Australian Dream

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Tom Hawley joins James Smith to expose the deliberate machinery behind a cost-of-living crisis most people don't even know is happening to them. The co-founder of Azura Financial, one of Australia's top 10 brokerages and a three-time Residential Broker of the Year, Hawley argues that inflation isn't a natural force but a policy choice, a quiet tax on your purchasing power that hits lower and middle-income earners hardest precisely because they can't see it.

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