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By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment, Industrial Relations, Markets, Middle East, Policy, Sociology | Tagged economic management, economic policy, economists, eight economists, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Gough Whitlam, Industrial Relations, infrastructure bank, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Nicholas Gruen, open letter, policy process, Politics, public policy, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 5, 2008
It’s been a shocker of a week for Malcolm Turnbull. We’ve had the Julie Bishop shenanigans, the missing deficit as a yardstick line, second guessing the Reserve Bank to argue that interest rates rises tanked the economy (which is an [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Christopher Pyne, crossing the floor, Fiona Nash, infrastructure, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nationals, parliament, private schools funding, Senate |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 3, 2008
It’s hard to know whether to blame the pollies or the press gallery more for the sorry standard of political and economic debate in this country. Did that golden age Paul Kelly used to talk about when Paul Keating had [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Government, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, behavioural economics, cats claws, collective action, dialectic, economic management, economic sociology, economists, fiscal policy, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, interest rates, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberals, LIBOR, lived economy, Malcolm Turnbull, non-farm growth, Paul Krugman, political economy, reserve bank, Rudd government, shared realities, social construction, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unemployment, us economy |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 1, 2008
Julie Bishop‘s been copping it from unnamed “senior Liberals” for her poor performance as shadow Treasurer, who’ve helpfully implied Malcolm Turnbull shares their worries, and suggested a few names to replace her (Dutton, Robb, Hockey) for good measure. While Bishop [...]
Posted in Media, Politics | Tagged Andrew Robb, brendan nelson, Joe Hockey, Julie Bishop, liberal leadership, Malcolm Turnbull, News Limited columnists, Peter Dutton, Peter Van Onselen, press gallery, punditariat, shadow treasurer |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 2, 2008
One of the minor notes of the political narrative last week was Julie Bishop’s half-hearted fessing up to publishing a book chapter containing numerous instances of plagiarism under her name, though (in a move quite reminiscent of the Howard government’s [...]
Posted in Books, Writers & Writing, Ethics, Media, Politics | Tagged brendan nelson, Ethics, Julie Bishop, Liberals and Power, Louise Adler, Melbourne University Press, MUP, Peter Van Onselen, plagiarism, publishing, Tom Switzer |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 16, 2008
Just before last year’s federal election, I read Neal Blewett’s Cabinet Diaries. The book is a good read, but I was also interested in reminding myself – in the dying days of the Howard Era – what a Labor government [...]
Posted in Economics, Howardia, Markets, Poverty | Tagged ALP, economic management, economic policy, economic stimulus, financial crisis, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Neal Blewett, Paul Keating, pensioners, pensions, Rudd government, social justice, stimulus package, surplus, unemployed, welfare benefits, welfare policy |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bishop_1104_narrowweb__300x3642.jpg" align=left Andrew Norton argues that the controversy over Julie Bishop’s lifting of a form of words from the Wall Street Journal is irrelevant, and tries to excuse it by arguing that politicians recite speeches written by departmental or [...]
Posted in Disasters, Media, Politics | Tagged Joe Biden, Julie Bishop, Liberal Party, plagiarism, shadow treasurer, Wall Street Journal, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 24, 2008
As Luke Slattery observes, a significant number of universities are moving to emulate either the whole of or aspects of the Melbourne Model – generalist undergraduate degrees followed by vocational postgraduate degrees. UWA and Macquarie are the latest off the [...]
Posted in Education, Sociology | Tagged ACU, ALP, brendan nelson, Education, education policy, Griffith University, higher ed, higher education, higher education policy, innovation review, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kim Carr, Labor, Luke Slattery, Macquarie University, Melbourne model, QUT, Rudd government, Stephen Schwartz, student income support, universities, university funding, university teaching, UQ, UWA, UWS, venturousaustralia |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 22, 2008
The list is out and it can be found here. Julie Bishop is the new Shadow Treasurer. Contrary to Turnbull’s own claims, it’s clear that he’s rewarded his own supporters and demoted or discarded some of Nelson’s – such as [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged Coalition, Concetta Fioranti-Wells, Julie Bishop, liberal leadership, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Nick Minchin, shadow cabinet, shadow ministry, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Abbott, Tony Smith |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 18, 2008
Earlier in the year, writing in On Line Opinion, I thought that Labor’s “Forward With Fairness” industrial relations policy was best interpreted as an attempt to entrench a new workplace settlement acceptable to all parties – and I still think [...]
Posted in Industrial Relations | Tagged ACTU, ALP, collective bargaining, employment rights, Federal election 2007, Forward with fairness, Industrial Relations, industrial relations policy, ir legislation, Jeff Lawrence, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labour movement, National Press Club address, Rachel Siewert, Rudd government, Senate, Sharan Burrow, Telstra, The Greens, unfair dismissal, unions, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 11, 2008
There’s a fair bit of analysis of and commentary on the Northern Territory election results around the blogosphere. The Poll Bludger is progressively updating late counting, while Tim Dunlop discusses the low turnout. Antony Green also looks at the impact [...]
Posted in State/Territory Elections | Tagged Alan Carpenter, ALP, blogosphere, Chris Bowen, Clare Martin, Coalition, Country Liberal Party, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, labor party, Northern Territory election 2008, Paul Henderson, Peter Beattie, political journalism, Rudd government, Stephen Smith, Terry Mills, WA election 2008 |
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