Comments on: Correcting the Hansard Record

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:20:08 +0000

Um, yeah, Naomi!

Still it does give me the chance to highlight David’s work on IR - like this column today in the Courier-Mail.

By: Lefty Elitist

Lefty Elitist — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 04:14:24 +0000

Ok, who likes this one?:

Its fully [sic].

By: Homer Paxton

Homer Paxton — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:08:18 +0000

I can afford that price CL but are you getting a bargain or a lemon?

By: C.L.

C.L. — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 03:03:46 +0000

My friendship will always be pro bono, Homer.

By: Homer Paxton

Homer Paxton — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:51:16 +0000

CL, my very favourite catholic friend ( actually I have no friends now since they all put their fees up this year) I have seen little from the IMF and OECD in RECENT times on the productivity potential of labour market deregulation but I have seem quite a bit on the employment effects which as I said previously are clearly positive.

right again on Q/T. It was Malcolm Fraser who pointed out that Q/T is all in favour of the government.
I remeber when Paul was in full cry and frequently won bets on answers he gave that were wrong.
Costello is even worse and the journos are no better.

Mark,
you are entirely correct as well

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:44:33 +0000

Well, tell that to Mr Costello next time he rubbishes the IMF and the OECD when they say something derogatory about government policy, C.L.

On the member for Adelaide, Kim Beazley needs to diet. The tv seat is often obscured by the leader.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:42:19 +0000

Homer has googled the Professor and deserves credit for that. Like I said, his opinions are massively less noteworthy than those offered by the OECD, IMF and Reserve Governor. Denying that is just nutty.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 02:39:04 +0000

Also Mark, to be fair, the rules of Question Time make it pretty hard for Oppo members to ever really shine.

Except the m. for Adelaide

By: Homer Paxton

Homer Paxton — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:07:23 +0000

Cl is displaying ignorance normally left at Tim Blair’s blog.

David Peetz is highly respected with regard to labour economics and has been for some time.
I should point out he has, from my reading, pointed out the woeful productivity record where individual contracts are in offer.
I have yet to see any empirical work with regard to employment and unemployment.
US experience has employment not being as strong as OZ but unemployment being lower.

By: dk.au

dk.au — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:55:13 +0000

What about Sarah Blasko?

She’s married. Well, was at least…

By: liam hogan

liam hogan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:12:05 +0000

Which is worse, to have your opinions buried for eternity in the vast comment threads of a blog, where only Google and God will ever reach them, or to have them buried for eternity in Hansard, unavailable except to futilely searching political historians?

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 22:37:04 +0000

WTF, Missy Higgins is lesbian?!!

What about Sarah Blasko? Did you ever suss that one out?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:11:56 +0000

C.L., David was my honours supervisor. If I knew my way around a chi squared and econometrics as well as he does, maybe I’d be a Professor too. I think you can distinguish between David’s opinion columns in the C-M, and his scholarly work, but the former are well grounded in the latter.

I think you’ve missed the irony in Costello’s answer, C.L. I’m not belittling him - he does Question Time almost as well as the sainted PJK (but that’s a high bar to jump for a pale imitation…). But Swanny is fond of quoting that trio (OECD, IMF, Reserve Bank Governor) against Cos, so he’s getting his own back. If I were Swanny, I wouldn’t rely on such dubious sources.

I thought you were one of the tv question time viewers, C.L., surprised you didn’t pick it up.

Swan, in my view, would be better (when he’s not quoting Griffith profs) to quote my favourite German intellectual (not the unintelligible Habermas) - Pope Benedict XVI.

Or if he really has to, Cardinal Pell, who’s saying some good things on IR.

By: C.L.

C.L. — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:57:58 +0000

Professor or not, he’s still a Labor hack whose opinions are close to worthless in comparison to the OECD, the IMF and the Reserve governor. To dispute that is Bjelke-esque. Swan gets demolished every day in parliament - he really has risen above his intellectual station.