Why shoot elephants?
It’s the most effective way to kill them. Any game-keeper will tell you that. Just as any economist will tell you that the most effective way to control o...
It’s the most effective way to kill them. Any game-keeper will tell you that. Just as any economist will tell you that the most effective way to control o...
“Keith De Lacy, chairman of takeover target Macarthur Coal, said yesterday the absence of a viable alternative to coal to fuel Asia’s economic growth ...
The Prime Minister is saying that today’s Peabody bid for Macarthur Coal demonstrates that the Gillard/Brown “coal tax” has not hurt the prospects of the Au...
Qantas—the airline that will soon call Singapore home (?)—says consumers will foot the entire bill for the un-compensated tax on aviation fuel.&nb...
Some aspects of the Prime Minister’s advocacy for her coal tax are, at best, misleading: a wedge for the much greater costs implied by the Labor/Greens ag...
Among the slogans that the Labor/Greens alliance will pound out over the next few weeks is that their coal tax is “low cost.” They don’t seem to understand th...
No doubt Ms Gillard will assure us, next Sunday when she announces the coal tax she has agreed with the Greens and two “independents”, that this is a “reform...