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By Mark Bahnisch on June 5, 2010
Much more is at stake in the noise around the RSPT than whether the mining industry ends up paying more tax. A whole host of serious public issues entwined with the proposal – including but not limited to the adequacy [...]
Posted in Media, Policy, Politics | Tagged company tax, Henry review, infrastructure, institutions, Media, Miners, narrative, political debate, public sphere, regional economy, resources super profits tax, rspt, shaun carney, superannuation, tax, the drum, tim dunlop, two speed economy |
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 Robert Merkel on May 2, 2010
The Henry Tax review should be out this afternoon, presumably available from their website. Peter Martin has a series of posts on the issue that should fill the intervening hours if you just can’t wait. Aside from the foreshadowing of [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics, WA Government | Tagged compulsory superannuation, Henry review, Henry Tax review, Ken Henry, superannuation, tax, taxation |
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 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 |
By Mark Bahnisch on August 8, 2008
Crikey editorialised about Paul Keating yesterday: He’s the Bert Newton of Australian politics: the polished performer whose gift for spontaneous, stiffly splenetic wit was honed in tougher vaudevillian times, times when having a personality meant more than booking an in-store [...]
Posted in Politics | Tagged compulsory super, Kevin Rudd, media cycle, micro management, Paul Keating, retirement income, spin, superannuation, whitebread politicians |
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