Stone the crows! There’s a deal of despair in the decline of the dismal science. La Trobe University is cutting back on economics education - allegedly planning to cut staff from 28 to ten.[i] The University of Western Sydney did the same in 2012, sacking four senior professors and their staff. [ii] And, across the [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 231 27 JUNE 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
THE CASE AGAINST AN INFLATION-LED RECOVERY Stone the crows! Inflation is on the agenda. Anybody who remembers the 1970s will recall inflation as awful – stealing savings, slowing growth and stopping budget discipline in state spending. According to Don Stammer: Australia fared worse than other countries, with stagflation running from 1972 to 1984. Unemployment rose [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 230 20 JUNE 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
UBER – EMPOWERING TAXI DRIVERS AND CUSTOMERS Stone the crows! Licenses to run up money on the meter aren’t what they were and taxi owners know it. Last week cabbies turned out all over Europe to protest the arrival of Uber, the app based system that connects passengers with drivers who aren’t in licenced cabs [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 229 13 JUNE 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 228 6 June 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
SELF EMPLOYED THE NEW WINNERS IN NEW ECONOMY STONE the crows! The cottage is back in industry. There were two whammys last week for Australian workers. The first was bad news – a prediction of falling wages to compete with Asia. But it was whacked by the second. This one pointed to a fab [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 227 30 May 2014 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
CHRISTOPHER PYNE – THE GREATEST ADVOCATE OF UNIVERSITIES SINCE GOUGH WHITLAM Stone the crows! Vice chancellors really should have been careful what they wished for. For decades, university leaders lamented they were under-resourced, over-regulated and politically ignored, despite education being the surest way to expand the economy, improve society and enrich individuals. As University of [...]
