Economic management: A choice between austerity and complacency?
Laura Tingle’s story that the Coalition are planning a mini-budget if elected featured on the front page of today’s Financial Review. Tony Abbott downplayed the prospect on radio this morning, probably because to do otherwise would be to be seen [...]
Cigs up, Labor down? Nielsen 2PP 50-50
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 [...]
Nine-star rated eco houses
Now that the Government has capitulated for the time being on the CPRS they would surely be looking around for ways that they can demonstrate their commitment to mitigation of climate change. The Australian Financial Review on the weekend carried [...]
The Affluenza myth
Don Arthur wrote an excellent post at Troppo last week, which is an object lesson in how ideological positions collapse when confronted with careful empirical work: Australia is in the midst of a flat-screen TV crisis, says Clive Hamilton. Driven [...]
Guest post by Ben Eltham: Useless pack of Bankers
Earlier this week at New Matilda, I explored the growing problem of the media’s fascination with corporate-backed reports and surveys. There’s already been plenty of discussion here about the BCA report into emissions trading, and my colleage Ben Pobije put [...]
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