BlueScope Steel, jobs and the mining boom
After campaigning against the Carbon Tax, BlueScope Steel is being cruelled by the lack of a proper Resources Rent Tax.
Breaking the stalemate on asylum seekers and refugees: How?
The CPD suggests a return to evidence-based policy on asylum seekers. The question is: how do we get there?
Why process is important: Another perspective on parliamentary and donations reform
One of the most interesting aspects of the agreement between The Greens and the ALP is the way in which it promises to put flesh on the bones of parliamentary reform. A number of clauses envisage combined committees of parliamentarians [...]
CPD post: Politics, policies and cultural diversity
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Coalition claims to have economic policy
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, [...]
CPD post: Cox on the social policy scorecard
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
CPD post: Armstrong on the need for a climate change/health alliance
During the election campaign, LP will be cross-posting selected items from the Centre for Policy Development’s discussion of policy issues, Thinking Points. Readers may also be interested in the CPD’s collection of policy ideas and priorities for the next term, [...]
Quick links: Broadband policy posts
There are two very useful posts on the Coalition’s broadband policy [earlier LP discussion here] published today worth highlighting: Tama Leaver on industry reaction and “the folly and farce” of the Coalition’s stance, and Stilgherrian in Crikey on the policy [...]
The Roxon/Dutton health debate at the National Press Club
Nicola Roxon and Peter Dutton will be debating health at the National Press Club momentarily. I’ll be live tweeting here. Update: The debate is being live streamed here. Update: Roxon is very impressive, across the detail. The thing is that [...]
Has Twitter made a difference to press focus on the trail?
I remarked earlier today that Labor has obviously adopted a communications strategy designed, in part, to short circuit the media focus on “distractions” and polls, and to bypass the circus taking place somewhere in Sideshow Alley, where Mark Latham lurks. [...]
Guest post by Pavlov’s Cat: Sorry Annabel, not good enough
Originally published at Still Life With Cat: The ABC’s Annabel Crabb published a long, informative, entertaining piece at The Drum the other day, characteristically witty and meaty, in defence of journalists and their current behaviour and reportage on the campaign [...]
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