26
May
2014
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
25
May
2014
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
23
May
2014
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
19
May
2014
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
15
May
2014
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
14
May
2014
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
13
May
2014
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
10
May
2014
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
8
May
2014
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