By Kim on August 18, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in Economics, federal election 2010 | Tagged Andrew Robb, bonds, debate, debt, economic management, economy, Federal Election 2010, infrastructure, national press club, Policy, public private partnerships, super, Tony Abbott |
By Kim on May 31, 2010
Anyone who’s been watching commercial tv recently would have noticed lots and lots of ads for Kevin Rudd’s National Health and Hospitals Network. Although they come in the guise of information, they strongly mirror the Prime Minister’s rhetoric. Now we’ve [...]
Posted in Advertising, Politics, Polls | Tagged ALP, Coalition, Essential Research, government advertising, Kevin Rudd, Labor, mining industry, National Health and Hospitals Network, political donations, Polls, rspt, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]
Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, Sociology, Women | Tagged business, capital, casualisation, globalisation, Henry review, Ken Henry, Miners, mining industry, population, resources rent, resources tax, rhetoric, Rudd government, super, super tax, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 6, 2008
Picking up on Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens’ remarks about “borrowing to invest” and not being afraid of a deficit if there are good policy outcomes to be had, eight prominent economists (including a couple of blogging ones) have written [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Environment, Industrial Relations, Markets, Middle East, Policy, Sociology | Tagged economic management, economic policy, economists, eight economists, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Gough Whitlam, Industrial Relations, infrastructure bank, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Malcolm Turnbull, Nicholas Gruen, open letter, policy process, Politics, public policy, Rudd government, super, superannuation, Wayne Swan |
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