CPD post: Cox on punishing the victims
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: 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, [...]
Labor’s bite sized policies on mental health and disability
Let’s face it. Everyone’s more interested in discussing leaks and polls than policy in this campaign. Why is this? In part, it’s because of the political theatre of the horse race and the personality contest, and in part because of [...]
Coalition shows it doesn't care about equal pay for women
Writing in Crikey the other day, Eloise Keating suggested that “if Abbott wants to woo women, he should start with wages”: Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show Australian women earned just 82.5% of the average male rate [...]
Unfairness and Abbott's parental leave non-policy
A lot has been said about Tony Abbott’s parental leave speech yesterday and today on this blog, on these two threads. As I suspected would occur, most of the qualifications and the actual non-policy aspect of the policy were not [...]
Minimum wages and inequality
My post last week on the decision to decrease the real wages of those reliant on awards for their pay by the so-called Fair Pay Commission sparked a somewhat heated thread, largely around the contention by some commenters that it [...]
The Affluenza myth
Don Arthur wrote an excellent post at Troppo last week, which is an object lesson in how ideological positions collapse when confronted with careful empirical work: Australia is in the midst of a flat-screen TV crisis, says Clive Hamilton. Driven [...]
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 [...]
Unemployment – no longer just for "dole bludgers"?
On the same day the Reserve Bank Board meets after its summer break, Federal Parliament resumes tomorrow. Among the bills which will be considered is one embodying the loosening of penalties on jobseekers who “breach” agreements with employment services providers. [...]
Guest post by Angharad: Ending homelessness – but not with the help of the AMA
Commenter Angharad discusses Kevin Rudd’s homelessness white paper which didn’t get much discussion because of its timing, but deserves some because of the importance of the issue. -MB A few days before Christmas, Kevin Rudd launched a white paper on [...]
Strange affiliations: the Clean Feed's political trajectory
Over at Catallaxy, Jason Soon links to Kerry Miller’s article in Spiked about Clive Hamilton’s influence in the propagation of the idea of the “Clean Feed” web censorship plan. There are some strange alliances around this issue, and Miller, who [...]
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