Evidence-free policy on cars
His Telstra term has apparently left Ziggy Switkowski with a taste for Gaullist illogic. He reckons that the absence of a rationale — other than rent-se...
His Telstra term has apparently left Ziggy Switkowski with a taste for Gaullist illogic. He reckons that the absence of a rationale — other than rent-se...
This is the sentence that makes me feel most uncomfortable: Voters are likely to be less hostile to foreign investment if they think that the government...
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...
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...
What is the point of the “emissions” tax now? By excluding petrol from their proposed tax, the Labor/Green alliance have moved the goal posts to make the tax...
Sensation sells, of course (“Salut DSK!”). Today’s Australian carries a gloom-laden account of Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson’s address to the Mel...