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Drowning in Gillard's flood levy spin

Governance & Service Provision | Chris Berg
The Sunday Age 30th January, 2011

The Prime Minister first raised the prospect of a flood levy 10 days ago. Her government wants taxpayers to believe the levy is an unavoidable...

A tax by any other name

Economics & Deregulation and Governance & Service Provision | John Roskam
The Australian Financial Review 28th January, 2011

Because politicians know voters don't like tax increases, Julia Gillard won't be imposing a flood tax. Instead, as she announced yesterday, there...

Micromanagement in the regulatory state

Governance & Service Provision | Chris Berg
The Drum Unleashed 25th January, 2011

Another year, another 6,369 pages of law. Spread over 150 acts, that was the Commonwealth's total new legislation in 2010. Not a bad effort...

The roots of American despair

Economics & Deregulation | Tom Switzer
Quadrant 1st January, 2011

A couple of years ago, the conventional wisdom held that Kevin Rudd and Barack Obama had transformed the political landscape in Australia and the...

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