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Gillard's first clue on carbon stance a worry
Under its climate change proposals, Canberra proposed an energy tax, rising to more than $18 billion a year - $900 per person. Lower carbon dioxide...
Speak out, Robert Manne: Ken Henry silences dissent
If Australian bureaucrats were bound by baseball rules, Treasury secretary Ken Henry has had his three strikes, and it's time to go back to the...
No more frank and fearless
On Treasury's conservative estimates, the super profits tax on miners, as well as foreclosing new projects, is a grab on profits of existing...
The pursuit of economic growth
The financial crisis must be over. Whenever the economy crashes, wise men and women say we need governments to manage the financial world for...
PM's economic shambles
The government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has not lived up to its early promise. Rudd is not an economic conservative; the surplus is gone, and...
Ruddtopia: fool's gold
In October 2006 Kevin Rudd published his now famous Brutopia essay in The Monthly magazine. One paragraph in particular stands out. There is a...
States' actions shape nation's economic outcome
Into the foreseeable future, Australian economic outcomes will be heavily shaped by circumstances faced by NSW, Victoria, Queensland and Western...
Two-speed economic theory a walk on the dark side
The Rudd Government's argument for a super profits tax on mining is based on a flawed proposition striking at the heart of economic aspiration. The...
Carbon tax dated
Canberra's decision to shelve its greenhouse tax, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), was a dramatic political backdown. Ironically,...