Stone the crows! With the not especially surprising surprises about the carbon tax/trading sideshow finally revealed can we get on to issues that are actually important to the economy? Because whether carbon tax/trading will save the planet, or just lets the Greens feel smugger than usual, does the debate remind anybody else of the GST? [...]
Tilting at windmills as the Greens take on power STONE the Crows! Bob Brown is believing his own bunkum. On the weekend, Brown told Dennis Shanahan the Greens are set to become a major political party, likely to replace Labor.[i] To which the Crows just caw. Certainly the senator now has nine colleagues with him [...]
STONE the crows! Bribery is now the basis for reform. According to Henry Tax Review member Greg Smith, the absence of enough money to “overcompensate” households reduces Canberra’s capacity to push through needed economic change. [i] It’s an opinion in-line with the all but universal assumption that the great age of reform is passed that [...]
We have met the bogan and he is us. STONE the crows! According to the country’s green-left opinion arbiters, the country is over-run by bogans, culturally-clueless xenophobes with appalling politics. The self-appointed taste-makers in everything from arts to electricity supply, who also see themselves as keepers of the national conscience, are outraged that members of [...]
A sovereign remedy for sovereign wealth funds STONE the crows! Now the Productivity Commission has injected objective economics into the carbon tax and trade debate, showing the economy might survive a price on the stuff what are we to worry about? How about sovereign wealth funds and what they can be used for? Eric Weiner [...]
A carbon-copy of the great era of reform? STONE the crows! The debate over why everybody who forgot to turn off the outside light last night should pay for global warming is morphing into an argument over economics. And a good thing to. Certainly we pump out a poultice of greenhouse gas per capita, 18.75 [...]
Health guilds hate being called to account STONE the crows! Accountability is out of order. At least for guild members who hate the idea of being called to account. On Thursday, Adam Creswell reported health fund NIB was upsetting 160,000 dentists, podiatrists, optometrists plus people in 14 other related occupations, by giving clients an online [...]
STONE the Crows! No wonder the Brits are broke, cuts to even peripheral public sector spending are generating outrage. British councils are responding to budget reductions by committing to closing local libraries.[i] And literary types are angry, “the assault on Britain’s public libraries is a thoughtless cultural crime whose after affects will linger for decades,” [...]
Stone the crows! What’s the mandarin for “magic pudding?” According to the Treasurer, “China and India are undergoing an historic transformation - an industrialisation and urbanisation process that is larger than any the world has ever witnessed.”[i] He has a case, certainly for their impact on Australia. According to ABARE, India’s purchase of Australian minerals [...]
Wayne Swan, Kim Wells – beware the lessons of the 1920s STONE the cows! Listening to the Treasurer on Tuesday looks like being a bit of a bore, given the government has leaked so many of the best budget bits (more spending on training and welfare) and signaled some of the phony-tough aspects, (watch out [...]
