Joe Hockey watch (now incorporating Christopher Pyne watch)
Somebody had to do it. Rob Corr’s been tracking Joe Hockey’s opportunistic and wildly inconsistent statements about the economy – much material there – two posts in one day! And imagine if the Coalition actually came up with a coherent [...]
Queensland election – it's all happening
Lots of stuff going on at the moment – there’s a great roundup at The Poll Bludger of this week’s retirements and preselections. And Antony Green’s election guide is up. Note that this doesn’t necessarily imply that an election is [...]
Victorian bushfire memorial and appeal event map
The Victorian government is using google map technology to enable people at community level to organise memorials and fundraisers related to the bushfires in their local area. Check it out here.
Opposing the CPRS II – Carbon Tax Edition
With allies as diverse as Richard Denniss, John Humphreys, John Quiggin and 9 other ‘economists’, it’s perfectly understandable that the Liberals put the call out for Cinderella Carbon Tax [h/t Paul] once, in the cold political daylight, the ETS turned [...]
Martin Jacques on the New Depression
My attention has been drawn (thanks to David McKnight) to this piece by Martin Jacques in the New Statesman on the GFC and its possible political consequences. Amongst other things Jacques notes: The British government – like every other government [...]
Embedding the economy II
Apropos of my post the other day on Karl Polanyi and “embedding the economy”, Andrew Crook has an excellent essay at New Matilda on the phony war over neoliberalism sparked off by Kevin Rudd’s musings in The Monthly.
Health reform report
The interim report of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission was released yesterday, and most of the coverage seems to have focused on the proposal for “Denticare” – a universal dental health scheme. Dentists and private health insurers seem [...]
The Overshadow
Props to Paul Burns for cooking up the latest apt nickname for Peter Costello – it says it all, really. If the Liberal Party thought they’d recovered from the political morass they sunk themselves into with the stimulus package naysaying, [...]
Another day, another election false alarm
It seems that the ALP still can’t lift a political finger in Queensland without the press wizards at The Australian heralding it as a sign of an imminent election. On Friday, they were writing about a “trigger” for a poll, [...]
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