People & associates
Alan Moran
Gillard likely to cop expansive Green agenda
Julia Gillard says that neither party has convinced Australia that it alone has won the right to govern and that "our political processes must...
Surely the election can afford debate on housing
As a concern among the electorate, housing affordability ranks above industrial relations, interest rates and asylum seekers. But until yesterday,...
Climate change almost invisible in the election campaign
Having been feted as the Great Moral Challenge and been the key factor behind the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, climate change policies are nearly...
Clunky approach to carbon reduction policies
Labor's wasteful and tokenistic "cash for clunkers" subsidy to scrap old cars is one of the few carbon emission reduction policy announcements this...
Renewable energy comes at exorbitant price
Coal-powered electricity generators and abundant coal supplies bring Victoria the world's cheapest electricity. This will change, partly because of...
Resource rent tax is absurd as its predecessor
The resource super-profits tax is buried, the minerals resource rent tax is terminally sick. Treasury's estimate that the MRRT would reduce the...
Less is more when it comes to election vows
With a State election pending, political parties will offer new spending promises and regulatory benefits to selected voter categories. But any...
Revenue grab creates little revenue
The Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) comprised two aspects. One was its naked theft of decades of shareholder investment. The other was a tax...
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...
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...