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By Mark Bahnisch on August 23, 2011
After campaigning against the Carbon Tax, BlueScope Steel is being cruelled by the lack of a proper Resources Rent Tax.
Posted in Economics, Featured, Markets, Policy, Politics | Tagged Australia, BlueScope Steel, carbon tax, Economics, export industries, manufacturing, mining boom, monetary policy, Policy, resources boom, resources rent tax, steel, trade liberalisation, unemployment |
By Guest Poster on August 22, 2011
Am I the only person who is thoroughly sick of the neoliberals and right-wingers carping on about the evils of the welfare state? It was, after all, they who invented it.
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics | Tagged Culture Wars, ideology, jobs, neoliberal economics, politics&govt, unemployment, unemployment benefits, welfare policy, welfare reform |
By Robert Merkel on June 10, 2011
It seems like the release of monthly employment data passed almost without comment yesterday. The lack of interest – if you’ll pardon the pun, it seemed the major focus of commentary was the data’s likely effect on the deliberations of [...]
Posted in Economics, Featured, Industrial Relations | Tagged labour force, labour market, labour underutilisation, underemployment, unemployment |
By Guest Poster on August 19, 2010
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, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy, Sociology | Tagged CPD, Eva Cox, social policy, Thinking Points, unemployment |
By Kim on August 18, 2010
One of the strange things about watching Tony Abbott on Q&A the other night is that he doesn’t actually appear to be a quick thinker. Any sort of question sees him raise his eyes to heaven in search of inspiration. [...]
Posted in federal election 2010, Policy, Sociology | Tagged Federal Election 2010, national press club, Noel Pearson, Paul Keating, Tony Abbott, unemployment, welfare reform, working nation |
By Robert Merkel on February 16, 2010
We’ll never know for sure, but the stimulus package probably saved several hundred lives. There are quite a number of studies examining the adverse health effects of unemployment. It seems that many do find an adverse impact. A survey in [...]
Posted in Economics, Policy, Politics | Tagged medical journal of australia, stimulus package, Treasury, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2010
News is just coming in that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts has been lost by the Democrat, Martha Coakley, to the Republicans’ Scott Brown. FiveThirtyEight.Com has the margin at 52-47 and that blog will be well worth watching for [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Politics, USA | Tagged anti-politics, barack obama, David Hirst, Democrats, filibuster, GFC, living standards, Main Street, Martha Coakley, Massachussetts, nate silver, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special election, super majority, Ted Kennedy, unemployment, US politics, Wall Street |
By Guest Poster on October 1, 2009
From The Australia Institute’s ‘Between the Lines’: The Australia Institute has recommended that the unemployment benefit be increased in line with community standards, which basically means providing for the unemployed as we do our pensioners and disabled. Another way of [...]
Posted in International, Politics, Sociology | Tagged benefits, dole, newstart, OECD, replacement rate, social welfare, The Australia Institute, unemployment |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 29, 2009
[Via SocProf] Remember how all economic ills could be cured by cutting wages and trashing labour protections? How the US economy was a shining beacon of low unemployment and enterprise? The whole Washington Consensus package… Writing in Social Europe Journal, [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, International | Tagged andrew watt, economic policy, GFC, global financial crisis, neo-liberalism, political economy, regulation, social europe, unemployment, unions, wages |
By Mark Bahnisch on July 14, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Economics, Industrial Relations, Politics, Sociology | Tagged award rates, awards, Ben Eltham, Economics, employment, Fair Pay Commission, Ian Harper, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, labour economics, minimum wage, neo-liberalism, New Matilda, social inequality, social policy, steve dowrick, unemployment, wages policy |
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