STONE the crows! Swannie can’t take a trick. Why surpluses are essential Stone the crows! Swannie can’t take a trick. Tony Abbott argues that Treasurer Wayne Swan penalises families by being profligate with the public purse: The reason why he is now looking at cuts, including more means tests, including a means test on childcare, is [...]
Barack Obama embraces Republican icons - Abe and Ike and Teddy STONE the crows! Just who is running in the Republican primaries? Last time I looked, Mitt and Rick and Newt were still there but so it seems were Ronny and Abe Teddy and Ike. Last week, Governor Santorum adopted the memory of the last [...]
Free markets need to be free of both bureaucrats and bankers STONE the crows! Since when were crookedness and capitalism supposedly synonymous? As far as the Crows can tell, pretty much since the Medicis got into the banking business. Bankers, especially since the GFC, are as suspect as they were in the 15th century. And [...]
Dave Oliver’s productivity delusion. STONE the crows! The ACTU is misunderstood. Sure, industrial action under the Fair Work Australia regime is up, working days lost last year doubled.[i] Sure unions are pursuing what looks suspiciously like industry wide pattern bargains, under cover of Fair Work Act’s get-out clause which allows “bargaining representatives” to push for [...]
Britain runs out of money – it’s official. A lesson for Australia STONE the crows! Didn’t Australians get the memo warning against unsustainable welfare spending? Evidently not – or if they did nobody paid any attention to the Chancellor of the Exchequer who last week warned what happens after state spendathons. “The British government has [...]
STONE the crows! What a relief the government doesn’t do the governing. As the Labor Party makes the Republican primaries look like a process of policy and politesse, it’s good the real government is getting on with it with the public service keeping the country ticking over. Err no. The cage-fight in Canberra ensured nobody [...]
Beware: "Comparative Wage Justice" is back! STONE the crows! Things are awfully like the early 1980s as the industrial relations system atrophies. With a high dollar, industry argues productivity improvement is essential to stay competitive and that the country cannot afford to reverse the deregulation of the Hawke, Keating and early Howard years. According to [...]
Stone the crows! Technology smarts trump property rights! The Crows are not especially smart at programming digital whizbangery (what with having fat claws and all) but they know enough to recognise people pinching property when they see it. Of this there is a bit about and there will soon be a big bit more. In [...]
Stone the crows! The great and the good were cutting and coming again this week as people found ever-more original ways to spend public money, on demands for increased spending on aged care accommodation, on pay rises for welfare workers and a national dental scheme, whether or not there is money for any of them. [...]
STONE the crows! Global trade and climate change deals are off the agenda, with the great powers acting in their own interests. That the nation state will always act in its own interest is far from surprising (except to the left) but it still is bad for Australia, just not in ways the believers in [...]
