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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...
Taking liberties
It should be clear by now that the Rudd government is not a government full of civil libertarians. Sure, there's less to the government's intention...
Population posturing
In January this year the Commonwealth Treasury released its Intergenerational Report for 2010. First introduced by former Treasurer Peter Costello,...
Privatisation is not enough
State governments cannot seem to rein in spending so it matches their revenues. The upshot is skyrocketing debt levels. The NSW and Queensland...
It's alive, after a fashion
Tony Abbott is a strange person to run an anti-tax, anti-spending election campaign. Sure, Abbott got the leadership on the back of a simple phrase...
States look beyond the power of one supplier
Fifteen years after Victoria privatised its electricity industry, New South Wales is dipping its toe into those same waters. But its focus is on...
Mad ads won't help PM
Some people in the Labor Party are delusional. They think Kevin Rudd's problem is that he's not "selling" his policies. Apparently, if he improved...
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...