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By Kim on August 18, 2010
Apparently, there’s more to it than reciting “debt and deficit” like a mantra. Yesterday, in his address to the National Press Club, when he could wean himself off talking about talking to “real Australians” at Rooty Hill and similar places, [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged Andrew Robb, bonds, debate, debt, economic management, economy, Federal Election 2010, infrastructure, national press club, Policy, public private partnerships, super, Tony Abbott |
By Brian on August 9, 2010
Much has already been said in the previous thread about alternative strategies that might have been taken to safeguard against the GFC. Specifically the virtues of a monetary response over fiscal stimulus has been promoted by Labor Outsider. Lenore Taylor [...]
Posted in Education, federal election 2010, Government | Tagged BER, building the education revolution, economic stimulus package, infrastructure |
By Kim on July 26, 2010
Ever since the Penrith by-election, we’ve been hearing endlessly about Western Sydney as the epicentre of the Australian political nation. The population “debate” proclaims that we need to “pause” as outer suburban areas groan under population pressure and failing infrastructure. [...]
Posted in Australiana, Brisbane, federal election 2010, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Sociology, Sydney, Urbanism | Tagged Bob Carr, Brisbane, Don Arthur, fear of crime, Federal Election 2010, growth, infrastructure, Lindsay, outer suburbs, Policy, population, Sociology, Sydney, Urbanism |
By Kim on July 22, 2010
Bernard Keane has a good piece in this morning’s Crikey election special edition, reflecting on yesterday’s installment of the so-called population debate. Let’s remember that Julia Gillard linked the asylum seeker issue to infrastructure and sustainability issues in the first [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Howardia, Immigration | Tagged asylum seekers, Big Australia, Federal Election 2010, Immigration, infrastructure, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, little australia, mark latham, population, Scott Morrison, sustainability, Tony Burke, western sydney |
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 June 18, 2009
I think there are quite a few self-inflicted political problems for Queensland Labor in the presentation of the budget handed down on Tuesday afternoon. But Anna Bligh and Andrew Fraser certainly aren’t helped by the ubiquity of the ‘debt is [...]
Posted in Economics, Media, Politics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, credit rating, debt, deficit, economic management, Economics, George Megalogenis, infrastructure, investment, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, Media, Nationals, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public services, public spending, QR, Queensland, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland Budget papers, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, stimulus, The Borg, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 15, 2009
In the wake of the unnecessary firesale of state assets, the Bligh government has continued down its merry path of trashing Labor policy. Last week we had the refusal to take any action over the charges laid against a 19 [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged abortion, ALP, ALP policy, Anna Bligh, Bligh government, budget, GFC, infrastructure, Ipswich, Labor conference, Mike Kaiser, One Nation, Peter Beattie, privatisation, public sector, QR, Queensland budget 2009, Queensland election 2009, Queensland Labor, Queensland politics, Queensland rail, RU486, unions, wage negotiations, Wayne Goss |
By Ben Eltham on March 22, 2009
Both Marcus Westbury and Nick Pickard lead their blogs with strongly critical posts about recent reports that the NSW government is about to commit to spending $1 billion to renovate Joern Utzon’s iconic Sydney Opera House. As Westbury writes, “this decision is one that is so [...]
Posted in Art, Culture, Music, Policy | Tagged cultural policy, infrastructure, Marcus Westbury, sydney opera house |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 2, 2009
The Fin Review today published a big feature article on the financial plight of the state governments. And yes, Virginia, they’re all in a bit of a hole, with Victoria possibly an exception depending on whether the VTC head’s claims [...]
Posted in Economics, Markets, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged Andrew Fraser, bonds, financial markets, GFC, infrastructure, sovereign debt, state governments, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 22, 2009
Various newspapers described Queensland Treasurer Andrew Fraser’s budget outlook review on Friday as providing a “trigger” for an impending poll. That’s something of a misleading formulation. But the budget position does give state Labor – perhaps paradoxically – a political [...]
Posted in Economics, Queensland, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, debt, deficit, economy, global financial crisis, Graham Young, infrastructure, jobs, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, LNP, political strategy, Polls, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, The Borg |
By Robert Merkel on February 12, 2009
Political machinations to one side for a moment , it’s worth considering whether Xenophon’s proposed amendment is a good idea. While it’s clear we’re collectively not doing enough to protect the Murray-Darling basin, that obviously doesn’t make any random throwing [...]
Posted in Economics, Water | Tagged infrastructure, murray-darling basin, nick xenophon, stimulus package, water buyback |
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