Climate Change
Obama’s announcement that the EPA will act to reduce by 30% by 2030 the use of coal in producing electricity in the... Read More
Various subjects
Today we have faced a wide range of interesting policy-related issues, most of which can only be touched on here. Turnbull’s blogging... Read More
Bad Polling Continues – and economy seems weak
As expected, the Coalition polling continues to be bad and, despite minor errors by ministers in publicly explaining budget measures, there is... Read More
The Battle of the Budget
Today’s The Australian reports that “senior sources” in the Coalition support the recalibration of the social welfare structure along the lines suggested... Read More
Budget Strategy
The AFR has published my letter on budget strategy, which is similar to the letter published in yesterday’s Australian. Interestingly, the AFR... Read More
Budget Strategy
While the letters in today’s The Australian are rather a hotch-potch, they reflect the widespread concern about the failure of the Abbott... Read More
What can Abbott do now?
As Parliament resumes tomorrow, the Abbott government will find many Senators (and others) geared to opposing many of the budget measures on... Read More
Explaining the Budget
The excellent article below by Judith Sloan contains the kind of explanations and rationale for (most of) the budget measures which should... Read More
HR Nicholls Society XXXIV Conference on “Stopping the Decline: Our Urgent Jobs Plan”
The highlight of the Brisbane conference of the HR Nicholls Society last Saturday was the dinner address by Queensland Attorney General and... Read More