By Guy on January 19, 2011
In the years immediately after the 1998 Federal Election, at which John Howard’s Coalition successfully won a mandate for introducing the GST, Federal Labor got stuck in a real policy communication rut. Sure, there was quite a bit of popular [...]
Posted in Politics, The Web | Tagged GST, NBN, Rollback |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
As I observed last night, the Opposition’s first reaction to the COAG deal* on health and hospitals reform was to blather on about “a great big new bureaucracy” (which isn’t as catchy as “a great big new tax”, but is [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Health, Policy, Politics | Tagged COAG, Coalition, Federal election 2007, Federal Election 2010, GST, Health, hospitals, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberals, National Health and Hospitals Network, Peter Dutton, Policy, political strategy, Senate, Tony Abbott, WA, Western Australia |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 30, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Elections, Federal Elections, Howardia, Politics, Polls | Tagged Andrew Norton, Climate change, compensation, consumption, cprs, Economics, Energy, ets, GST, households, John Howard, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, modelling, polling, redistribution, tax, Tony Abbott |
By Robert Merkel on May 19, 2009
Andrew Bartlett has had a couple of fascinating posts up recently. The first is a look back on Brian Harradine’s speech in the Senate when he announced his intention to vote against the tax. Bartlett quotes the key part of [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Policy, Politics, Poverty | Tagged andrew bartlett, Australian Democrats, brian harradine, goods and services tax, GST |
King Lear becomes a kingmaker, Hockey's treachery, and delay is the new denial
By Mark Bahnisch on November 30, 2009
It’s probably time to take stock again of the Liberal leadership spill shenanigans. John Howard has obviously been having a word in a few journos’ ears. Tony Wright penned this piece for The Age yesterday, portraying the Ghost of Wollstonecraft [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Polls | Tagged bernard keane, Climate change, climate change denialism, commentariat, Conservative Party, cprs, David Cameron, delay, ets, GST, Joe Hockey, John Howard, liberal leadership, Liberal leadership spill, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nielsen Poll, Paul Keating, Polls, possum, press gallery, Rudd government, spill, Tony Wright, Tories, twitter, WorkChoices | 29 Responses