No need, no gain, no glory
Only nine years late, we are to have a Parliamentary debate about our involvement in the Afghan conflict! What has bought our leaders to consider, at la...
Tag: transparency
Global Trade Alert
Just before the London G-20 Meeting in April, Andy Stoler and I wrote a paper for a booklet published by the Center for Economic Policy Research in which we s...
Budget transparency turns murky
So much for the Government's "Operation Sunshine" that was supposed to make budget program expenditure more transparent and accountable. On the biggest single...
More transparency in the Federal budget
The budget to be introduced next Tuesday will be the first to fully implement the recommendations of the (former Senator Andrew) Murray Review on cutting gobble...
Empty words won’t limit the ‘wriggle room’
Democracy ensures we get the governments we deserve. Gideon Rachman seems to think we deserve only to be consoled for the political dilemma of G20 leaders rat...
Can the G20 halt ‘murky’ protectionism?
What should the G20 do, when they meet in London next month, to put an end to the growing use of what I've been calling 'wiggle-room' protection? Is 'murky' p...
Transparency as stimulus
This is a great idea that the Rudd government should adopt. "…The ‘American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,’ better known as our national Ha...