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By Guest Poster on August 17, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged Coalition, economic policy, Economics, economists, Federal Election 2010, fiscal stimulus, GFC, Joseph Stiglitz, Thinking Points |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 20, 2009
From today’s Crikey email: Any close observer of Queensland politics – or rather what the press gallery and the pundits write about Queensland politics – could be forgiven for thinking the general approach to election date tipping was to write [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Anna Bligh, Barnaby Joyce, Crikey, early election, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Judy Spence, Kevin Rudd, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Mike Kaiser, MPs, National party, Queensland election 2009, retirements, speculation, stimulus package, The Borg |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2009
A lot of commentary in the US has focused on both the politics of Barack Obama’s stimulus package and on the TARP II bailout announced by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last week. In developments which somewhat parallel the Australian debate [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged actor network theory, barack obama, cultural economics, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, epistemology, finance, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Friedmanites, global financial crisis, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Malcolm Turnbull, Milton Friedman, Republicans, Senate, social cartography, Sociology, Tim Geithner |
By Kim on February 13, 2009
There’s surprisingly good news on the employment front for January, with unemployment only increasing by .3%, full time employment holding steady and female full time employment rising substantially: ANZ economist Katie Dean said the stimulus package had worked to retain [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged economic policy, employment, female employment, figures, fiscal stimulus, January, Julie Bishop, Liberal Party, shadow treasurer, statistics, stimulus package, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 11, 2009
Anyone actually wanting to find out what the result of the much vaunted Senate scrutiny of the Rudd government’s fiscal stimulus legislation can now do so by reading the Senate Committee report. Peter Martin has more. Speaking of Peter Martin, [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged economic policy, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Kevin Rudd, legislation, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, stimulus package, Treasury |
By Kim on February 10, 2009
…didn’t last long. Bernard Keane has the details on Turnbull’s backdown on the stimulus package over at Crikey.
Posted in Politics | Tagged ALP, backdown, backflip, Coalition, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, Senate passage, stimulus package |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
Simon Jackman has the good oil on what Bob Brown and Steve Fielding are putting on the table as Senate deliberations on Kevin Rudd’s fiscal stimulus continue. Both are emphasising the unemployed and job creation (with Brown arguing for green [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Australian Greens, benefits, Bob Brown, Family First, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, Henry review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, minor party, Rudd government, Senate, Senate Committee, Senate passage, Senators, social inequality, social policy, Steve Fielding, stimulus package, The Greens, unemployed, unemployment, welfare policy |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 5, 2009
It’s been suggested – apropos of the title of my last post on the federal government’s stimulus plan – that I was expressing cynicism by calling the piece “Never get between Australians and a pile of money”. Actually, that was [...]
Posted in Economics | Tagged ALP, Coalition, deficit, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Rudd government, tax cuts |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 4, 2009
THE Opposition will vote against the Government’s $42 billion financial stimulus package, Malcolm Turnbull says. “Someone has to stand up for fiscal discipline,” Mr Turnbull told the House of Representatives. “Someone has to stand up for levels of debt for [...]
Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged Coalition, deficit, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kim Beazley, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, tax cuts |
Blindsided?
By Mark Bahnisch on February 7, 2009
[Via Gary Sauer-Thompson] Dennis Shanahan in The Australian claims that the Liberal decision to vote against the stimulus package: has blind-sided the Government over the $42 billion stimulus package… left Kevin Rudd politically flat-footed and frustrated…and given the Opposition an [...]
Posted in Economics, Media | Tagged ALP, bernard keane, Coalition, Crikey, deficit, Dennis Shanahan, fiscal stimulus, global financial crisis, GOP, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited commentators, press gallery, Rudd government, stimulus package, tax cuts, The Australian | 31 Responses