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A hard, tough and brutal tax debate is brewing
Tax is exciting - despite what they say. Last year the Rudd Government set up the Henry Tax Review and, for a while, shovelled all its problems on...
Deficit failures condemn us to sluggish growth
The Federal Government is keen to triumphantly declare that it has conquered the recession. Germany and France -- but not other European Union...
Rudd's stimulus has nothing to do with the economy
The "go hard, go early, go households" advice given to government last year is starting to look a little sick. Serious doubts are being raised...
The great CPRS green jobs con
The Senate has rejected the Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme today. By all accounts it will be be reintroduced and then passed...
Going green is just another rinse in government washer
There's no better way to dress up your drab, colourless economic plan than calling it ''green''. The Victorian Government has been trying to create...
Green jobs subtract value
One justification being given for the government's emissions trading bill is that it will provide tens of thousands of new "green jobs". Our...
Softly, softly
The goal of international agreements being considered on climate change is to stabilise the world's human-caused carbon dioxide emissions. This...
Glenn Stevens' high wire act on rates
The Reserve Bank of Australia has begun softening up the public for interest rate rises. Given that the official rate is at 3 per cent, it's not...