BlueScope Steel, jobs and the mining boom
After campaigning against the Carbon Tax, BlueScope Steel is being cruelled by the lack of a proper Resources Rent Tax.
Deficits, debt, etc: Bad for business, bad for the economy?
We learned last week that Joe Hockey plans to cut $70 billion from government spending (as he has to do to fund Tony Abbott’s Direct Action and parental leave policies, and to make up for all sorts of foregone revenue [...]
Power shifts East?
Political and military power lags behind economic power, but the bill falls due. This could be the way the hegemon ends, not with a bang but with a Tea Party.
Clean economy jobs pay better, employ more workers
A report by the Brookings Institution has found that clean economy jobs pay low and semi-skilled workers in the US significantly better than the median. Similar research in Australia would be very valuable in informing the carbon price debate.
Has Abbott done his dash?
Tony Abbott’s response to the country independents’ request for Treasury costings of his promises [see this previous post for details, and for Julia Gillard's response] is to offer them meetings with the Coalition’s accountancy firm and his shadow ministers. Peter [...]
The media, ‘reform’ and the interregnum
In my article for The Drum on Monday, I observed: What will be most interesting over the next few days and weeks will be whether the Australian commentary machine’s momentum finally switches – an actual event has occurred, but the [...]
CPD post: McAuley asks if Coalition economic policy is a Nauru solution
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Open economists’ letter on Labor’s stimulus
John Quiggin has published an open letter from 50 academic economists arguing that the stimulus package prevented Australia from going into recession:
The Treasurers’ debate
Today, we have Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey going head to head at the National Press Club at lunch time. I won’t be watching it, because I have a full time job and I’m at work. That’s the problem with [...]
CPD Post: McAuley on economic management
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s upcoming collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next [...]
Who are the golden geese?
By Kim on May 5, 2010
A couple of interesting pieces appeared today about the self-serving claims of the mining industry about the Resources Super Profits Tax, dutifully echoed by journos and opposition pollies, and it would now appear, Anna Bligh. Bernard Keane:
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