So much stacked against sensible reform
…tax: lobbyists, particularly industry associations. Their major task is to represent their industry’s interests to government. They cost a bit to run. They usually have a chief executive and a…
Journalism and other writing
…tax: lobbyists, particularly industry associations. Their major task is to represent their industry’s interests to government. They cost a bit to run. They usually have a chief executive and a…
…and the GST) and some quite inefficient and unfair ones. Now what of the carbon tax? The well-heeled actress Cate Blanchett and others have been roundly condemned as hypocritical for…
…Labor’s adherence to the Afghanistan foray and its “let’s-hope-it-will-go-away” attitude to gay marriage, the republic and euthanasia and its “more-brutal-than-now” attitude to boat refugees left people with liberal moral foundations…
…1970s; in reconciliation marches in 2000; and against South African rugby tours – or the Martin Luther King marches in the US and the anti-nuclear marches in Britain in the…
…ethnicities and religions live harmoniously together, often comes back to whether there are enough resources for all, or whether there are simply too many people for the available resources,” Thomson…
…run deficits when the economy is doing badly to stimulate demand and get the economy moving again. And in boom times governments should run surpluses to hold back inflation and…
…albeit a public-spirited one, not a charity. Like all newspaper publishers, Fairfax is facing a difficult time with competition from the internet for both news and advertising. Like any company…
…and presents only one side of the argument. And like most industry groups has engaged a so-called independent consultant to study the question and come up with conclusions favourable to…
…is invariably measured and thoughtful. Bolt is almost invariably inflammatory. Aitkin acknowledges the test for Aboriginal identification and has done an immense amount of good work in the Aboriginal cause….
…about it, sometimes revolt as in France in 1789. A certain amount of inequality of outcomes is healthy and promotes effort and innovation, but when the wealthy drive those in…