By Mark Bahnisch on May 16, 2010
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Politics | Tagged australian workers union, AWU, Miners, mining industry, resources, resources rent, resources super profits tax, rspt, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 6, 2010
A couple of snippets from today’s papers: MINING giant Rio Tinto has shelved plans to spend $11 billion expanding its massive iron ore operations in Western Australia because of the wave of uncertainty sparked by the Rudd government’s proposed tax [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Policy, Politics | Tagged capital, capital strike, Capitalism, democracy, Federal Election 2010, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Miners, Paul Keating, resources, resources rent, Robert Gottliebsen, rspt, Rudd government, super profits |
By Kim on April 21, 2010
Tony Abbott has a plan which would end skills shortages in the resources sector: TONY Abbott has proposed banning the dole for people under 30 in a bid to entice the unemployed to head west and fill massive skill shortages [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged dole, ideology, mining sector, newstart, populism, resources, skills shortages, Tony Abbott, unemployment benefits, youth |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 11, 2010
I spoke yesterday at a Search Foundation Forum, Breaking the Addiction: challenging Bligh’s privatisation push, in Brisbane at the Workers’ Community Centre at Paddington. This is the text of my talk, written up from my notes: I The Bligh government’s [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Economics, Government, History, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology, State/Territory Elections | Tagged ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, autonomy, Bligh government, capacities, capital, Carole Ferrier, commodification, communitarianism, communities, corporatism, decommodification, democratic socialism, ETU, GFC, global financial crisis, globalisation, governmentality, History, homgenisation, homogenisation, ideology, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, John Quiggin, John-Paul Langbroek, Labor, Lawrence Springborg, Liberal National Party, LNP, managerialism, Media, neo-liberalism, New Labor, New Labour, nudge, Peter Beattie, political class, political culture, Polls, privatisation, QR, Queensland election 2009, queensland government, Queensland Greens, Queensland history, Queensland rail, radical brisbane, Ray Evans, resources, Sociology, Sunday Mail, T. J. Ryan, The Greens, trade unions, unions |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Government, Policy, Politics | Tagged Coalition, economic policy, Federal Election 2010, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Peter Martin, political communication, population, rent, resources, Rudd government, superannuation, tax, tax policy, Treasury, welfare |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 4, 2010
One of the accusations frequently made by climate change deniers or ‘skeptics’ against those who would like to see concerted action taken to ameliorate the impacts of anthropogenic global warming is that of being somehow apocalyptic. A related charge is [...]
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Who are the golden geese?
By Kim on May 5, 2010
A couple of interesting pieces appeared today about the self-serving claims of the mining industry about the Resources Super Profits Tax, dutifully echoed by journos and opposition pollies, and it would now appear, Anna Bligh. Bernard Keane:
Posted in Economics, Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged abc, Anna Bligh, bernard keane, commentariat, Economics, Henry review, James Farrell, journalists, Kevin Rudd, Media, Miners, mining industry, Policy, public finance, resources, resources rent, resources super profits tax, tax, Wayne Swan | 58 Responses