The tax debate we’re sort of having
The launch of the Coalition’s tax policy (which is mainly about taxes they oppose, and two further reviews of the Henry Review) was “overshadowed” by Mark Latham yesterday, and by “Treasury leaks” today, with the only bit that really made [...]
CPD post: Spies-Butcher on a Coalition revival of the flat tax agenda
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, [...]
Reality check: Abbott’s claims about the impact of a carbon price on electricity tarriffs
Tony Abbott has been running the line that a carbon price of $40 a tonne would double the price of electricity. John Quiggin has done the math: For coal-fired electricity, CO2 emissions are around 1 tonne/MWh for black coal (a [...]
Labor could turn a carbon tax into a positive
The Coalition campaign has less money in the coffers than Labor, and if past indications are any guide, they’ll be holding back on their advertising spend for a blitz in the final ten days or so. It’s worth gazing into [...]
The view from Channel Nine II
For an explanation of why I’m writing these posts, see last night’s entry. So, from the vantage point of commercial news, tonight was all about the kids. (And, again, the election was bumped into second spot, this time by a [...]
Julia Gillard, presidential governance and the future of progressive politics
Tigtog has written an interesting and thoughtful post at Hoyden About Town, reflecting on a number of aspects of the way Julia Gillard’s rise to power, and her performance in her short time as PM, has been discussed. Of particular [...]
Who governs Australia?
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 [...]
What if the mining industry backs down?
Such is the impact of the 24 hour news cycle and the eternal present it creates that commentators seem unable to contemplate what comes next, and seem to assume that what has happened before will always happen again. So we’ve [...]
The RSPT, 'nationalisation' and hyperbole
Wayne Swan recently said that mining company executives were either lying or displaying their ignorance in their statements about the Resources Super Profits Tax, a comment which apparently horrified Kerry O’Brien: how could this be true of respected business leaders? [...]
Cigs up, Labor down? Nielsen 2PP 50-50
Possum parses the latest Nielsen poll over at Pollytics: We don’t usually see these types of dramatic changes in the polling unless we either have a new leader (but Abbott has been here for months), a scandal (the only scandal [...]
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:
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