Why the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance ‘facts’ are not facts
A couple of links culled from the carbon price polls thread: Roger Jones and Peter Martin on the deceit behind the anti-carbon price scheme ads from the Australian Trade and Industry Alliance.
Tough budget bollocks
Peter Martin (who really, really ought to know better) in The Age: Wayne Swan will be forced to make savage cuts to his May budget after confidential Treasury figures showed a $13 billion fall in economic growth for this financial [...]
Quick link: Peter Martin on Costingsgate
In an interesting article this morning, Peter Martin looks at the broader implications of the kerfuffle about the Coalition’s costings – how a bunch of firms and institutions have been dragged into the political questions around the whole Charter of [...]
Has Abbott done his dash?
Tony Abbott’s response to the country independents’ request for Treasury costings of his promises [see this previous post for details, and for Julia Gillard's response] is to offer them meetings with the Coalition’s accountancy firm and his shadow ministers. Peter [...]
Quick link: Peter Martin on the Coalition’s costings
Read the article here.
The tax debate we’re sort of having
The launch of the Coalition’s tax policy (which is mainly about taxes they oppose, and two further reviews of the Henry Review) was “overshadowed” by Mark Latham yesterday, and by “Treasury leaks” today, with the only bit that really made [...]
Possum on how exactly super profitable mining companies are
There’s been some discussion on another post about Possum’s piece on the super profitability of the mining industry, so I think it’s appropriate to have a dedicated thread for the topic. Possum’s post is here. Peter Martin has picked out [...]
Some super profitable companies could pay 58 per cent tax
That’s pretty much what Wayne Swan said in this exchange on the Four Corners report on the RSPT: SARAH FERGUSON (to Wayne Swan): The Minerals Council is arguing, as are major players in the industry, that they’ll be facing a [...]
The Liberals and economic management
Peter Martin details evidence given by Treasury at a recent Senate Estimates Committee hearing, on the latest GDP numbers and the contribution of the stimulus:
Open Joe Hockey Press Club thread
Today, Joe Hockey is outlining concrete and costed savings at the National Press Club. Or so we were led to believe, in a Budget reply speech from his leader which Peter Martin characterises as a ‘dog ate my homework’ address. [...]
No one watches daytime tv; and other Health Debate myths
By Mark Bahnisch on March 23, 2010
As anticipated, commentariat memes very quickly emerged after the Great Health Debate – “Abbott was disadvantaged because he didn’t have a policy”, “Abbott came out swinging”, “He was authentic”, “Rudd played to The Worm”, “It’s not important anyway”, “No one [...]
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