Ken Henry resigns
ABC News: The Federal Government has confirmed Treasury secretary Ken Henry is resigning from his role. He will finish up early in the new year and will be replaced by Climate Change Department secretary Martin Parkinson. Confirming Dr Henry’s resignation [...]
The battle of the budget bottom line
The three rural Independents are meeting this morning with Treasury Secretary Ken Henry to discuss the state of the economy. Yesterday, in her address to the National Press Club [see previous LP discussion here], Prime Minister Julia Gillard made a [...]
The Mining industry and the Super tax
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 [...]
Henry Review open thread
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 [...]
The Henry Review
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 [...]
Big Australia
It’s been a couple of weeks since Ken Henry’s speech at QUT kicked off something of a debate about Australia’s future population. Henry – noting carefully that he was speaking only for himself, not Treasury – raised concerns about the [...]
Lame claims: invoking the Reserve Bank and Treasury politically
Sometimes, in politics, it might be better to remain silent. Glenn Milne’s latest intervention, talking up a line from Liberal MP Scott Morrison, has to be one of the lamest ever political attack lines. [For those who don't want to [...]
Death, taxes and the Henry Review
<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, [...]
How might the Senate tinker with the stimulus package?
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 [...]
The Liberal bottom line
Since everyone else is, I thought I might add in my $950 two cents’ worth into the great stimulus package debate. I’m also in the camp of thinking Malcolm’s nuts, and while some have been decrying those who discuss the [...]
A lapse in judgement? Or too many barristers?
The Coalition’s apparent belief that everything that they read in the (Australian) newspaper must be true has got them into all sorts of trouble this week. The bizarre spectacle of a gaggle of Liberal Senators piling on Treasury Secretary Ken [...]
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