Climate Change, Terrorism and Privatisation
The Fairfax press has continued its attacks on Abbott through disputes over climate change policy (and ridicule), with today’s Age even making... Read More
Climate, climate ever changing
Some readers of The Age might possibly be waiting with baited breath for Abbott’s forthcoming meeting with Obama to reveal “damaging” differences... Read More
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
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
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
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
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