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By Guest Poster on August 11, 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, Policy | Tagged Ben Spies-Butcher, Coalition, CPD, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, flat tax, henry ergas, Henry review, tax, Thinking Points |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 5, 2010
Much more is at stake in the noise around the RSPT than whether the mining industry ends up paying more tax. A whole host of serious public issues entwined with the proposal – including but not limited to the adequacy [...]
Posted in Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged company tax, Henry review, infrastructure, institutions, Media, Miners, narrative, political debate, public sphere, regional economy, resources super profits tax, rspt, shaun carney, superannuation, tax, the drum, tim dunlop, two speed economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
Possum parses the latest Nielsen poll over at Pollytics: We don’t usually see these types of dramatic changes in the polling unless we either have a new leader (but Abbott has been here for months), a scandal (the only scandal [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, budget 2010, cigarettes, credibility, electricity prices, Essential Research, Henry review, household spending, housing, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, living standards, Newspoll, Nielsen, polling, Polls, possum, public health, regressive tax, resources tax, rspt, Rudd government, tax, tobacco, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
I get really annoyed when journos and biz types refer to mining companies as “miners”. Miners are not companies, but workers; the workers who actually generate the windfall profits a portion of which the Rudd government is planning to redirect [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged business, capital, casualisation, globalisation, Henry review, Ken Henry, Miners, mining industry, population, resources rent, resources tax, rhetoric, Rudd government, super, super tax, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
By Robert Merkel on May 2, 2010
The Henry Tax review should be out this afternoon, presumably available from their website. Peter Martin has a series of posts on the issue that should fill the intervening hours if you just can’t wait. Aside from the foreshadowing of [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, WA Government | Tagged compulsory superannuation, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, superannuation, tax, taxation |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
A summary of Ken Henry’s tax review can be read at Peter Martin’s blog. The report’s emphasis changed a fair deal along the way, a topic treated of by Martin in another post. If you’ve been wondering why Kevin Rudd’s [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged Coalition, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Martin, political communication, population, rent, resources, Rudd government, superannuation, tax, tax policy, Treasury, welfare |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 29, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/death_and_taxes.jpg" The latest issue of the Centre for Policy Development‘s online mag, Insight, is out, and ‘Taxation for Our Times’ focuses on the Henry Review. I make no claims to any expertise in the technical aspects of taxation policy, [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Philosophy, Policy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Amartya Sen, Australia, capacities, Centre for Policy Development, collectivism, CPD, cultural studies, Economics, Henry review, History, ideology, insight, Ken Henry, liberalism, political culture, Politics, Rudd government, Sociology, statism, tax, taxation policy |
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 Robert Merkel on January 9, 2009
While navigating the CPRS – sludge of a policy that it is – through the Senate will undoubtedly provide much of the political theatre this year, there are a number of other government reviews that will start to report back [...]
Posted in Policy, Politics | Tagged bradley review, defence white paper, Henry review, policy reviews, tax review |
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:
Posted in Economics, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged abc, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, commentariat, Economics, Henry review, James Farrell, journalists, Kevin Rudd, Media, Miners, mining industry, Policy, public finance, resources, resources rent, resources super profits tax, tax, Wayne Swan | 58 Responses