Reality check: Tony Abbott’s 7.30 Report comments on immigration
Tony Abbott tied himself in knots trying to explain to Kerry O’Brien tonight why, if he chose to use 2008 as a baseline for his immigration cuts (which is misleading, as the intake is on the way down), the then [...]
"Great new tax on everything"
The government has released modelling showing the effects of the CPRS on household incomes, demonstrating that many low income earners will, on average, be better off financially. Predictably, this disclosure has added fuel to the fire of complaints from the [...]
After Copenhagen II: Whither progressive politics?
A predictable response to the Copenhagen fail has been calls from Australian business for *even more* ‘compensation’ as a condition for continued support of the Rudd government’s ETS. I’ll save the domestic politics of the Copenhagen washup for a later [...]
Clive Hamilton and Higgins
The Greens are running Clive Hamilton in Higgins. As Andrew Norton observes, Hamilton criticising seems to be a politically ecumenical practice in the blogosphere. Guy Rundle puts a contrary view. I’m by no means enamoured of some of the ideas [...]
Does Turnbull have a (viable) political strategy (at all)?
There’s an interesting debate (so far one sided) between Possum and Andrew Norton on the question of Malcolm Turnbull’s and the opposition’s prospects. Possum, after making a statistically derived argument about what factors drive voting, suggests that Malcolm Turnbull’s only [...]
The vigilance of (il)Liberalism never sleeps
Probably one of the most laudable steps taken by the Rudd government has been the attention given by Senator John Faulkner as Special Minister of State to cleaning up the electoral system. Admittedly, this isn’t one of the funky and [...]
Expectations about unemployment
Andrew Norton has posted on some interesting findings from Roy Morgan’s employment perceptions survey. Basically, there’s something of a disjunction – with 70% of respondents believing unemployment will rise over the next year (the highest since the last recession, and [...]
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