Deficits, debt, etc: Bad for business, bad for the economy?
We learned last week that Joe Hockey plans to cut $70 billion from government spending (as he has to do to fund Tony Abbott’s Direct Action and parental leave policies, and to make up for all sorts of foregone revenue [...]
The death of the internet filter
It’s worth noting that just for once, the Liberal Party has actually stuck up for Liberal principles and decided to oppose the internet filter. The decision, along with that of the Greens, ensures that the filter will be, um, filtered [...]
The ABC’s pursuit of Wayne Swan on “leaks”
Mark commented last night that a lot of time that could have been better spent on the 7.30 Report joint interview with Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey was wasted on a discussion of “Treasury leaks”. I won’t call it a [...]
Live Tweeting the Swan/Hockey encounter on the 7.30 Report
Read LP’s tweets here. Update: Well, that was most unenlightening. Joe Hockey has seemed to be in a very grumpy mood all campaign, and he was allowed to get away with his usual bizarre contradictions. Swan’s lines on infrastructure and [...]
Quick link: Lefttothink smells a rat on Liberal costings
… and so do I. This confected rubbish from Andrew Robb about a “Treasury leaker” (shorter Coalition – we love Treasury leakers when they’re called Godwin Grech) is just a way for him, Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott to avoid [...]
The Treasurers’ debate
Today, we have Wayne Swan and Joe Hockey going head to head at the National Press Club at lunch time. I won’t be watching it, because I have a full time job and I’m at work. That’s the problem with [...]
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 [...]
Guest post by Mr Denmore: The debt delusion
One of life’s great mysteries is the established wisdom, reflected in opinion polls and the media, that the Coalition is superior to Labor in “economic management”. Leaving aside the fact that Treasury and the RBA largely manage the macro-economy, it’s [...]
The view from Channel Nine
As I said on a previous post, the best way to get a handle on how most voters are perceiving the campaign is to watch the first ten minutes of a commercial tv news bulletin. By way of illustration, Channel [...]
Laurie Oakes claims Kevin Rudd proposed a Kirribilli style deal to Julia Gillard on 23 June
By Mark Bahnisch on July 15, 2010
In the q&a after a fairly predictable speech by the Prime Minister on economic policy at the National Press Club today, Laurie Oakes asked her a question which implied that Kevin Rudd had indicated, on the night of June 23, [...]
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