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
Various subjects
As might be expected, the whingers about the treatment of certain elements of government assistance have emerged, with Labor leading the way... Read More
Budget Analysis
There is more than one way of skinning a cat – and of interpreting a budget. In previous messages I have criticised... Read More
Budgeting and Modelling
What does one do when attempts to convert fail? Presumably not succumb to what Henry Ergas describes below as Calvinist despair reflected... Read More
Various subjects
Further adverse polling (46/54 TPP), albeit in an irregular Fairfax poll (see below), adds to the perspective of a failure to “sell”... Read More
Deficit Levy, Heydon RC
Perhaps we are being bluffed but the (economic) outlook for next Tuesday’s budget goes from bad to worse. This is not to... Read More
Budget Chips Not The Answer
The Abbott government has been in office for about nine months and is apparently still trying to decide what spending reductions to... Read More
Various subjects
Yesterday’s resignation of the NSW Police Minister (a former policeman) after questioning at ICAC has been accompanied by a warning from ICAC... Read More
Deficit Levy
Yesterday the Herald Sun ran a front page story – headed TAX SMASH – and a follow-up story in which Terry McCrann... Read More