In The Australian today
Widely cited claims by the International Monetary Fund that subsidies to fossil fuels amount to a staggering 6.5 per cent of global income have been savaged by David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, in a letter to London’s Financial Times published on Friday.
26 Oct2015
Partisan Chris Bowen goes too far in praise of Wayne Swan
In The Australian today:
It may be symptomatic of that “instinctive distaste for the past” that historian Keith Hancock thought characterised Australians that there is no official history of the Treasury. Chris Bowen’s The Money Men doesn’t claim to fill that gap, but it does provide vivid and insightful portraits of some of our more prominent treasurers.
It may be symptomatic of that “instinctive distaste for the past” that historian Keith Hancock thought characterised Australians that there is no official history of the Treasury. Chris Bowen’s The Money Men doesn’t claim to fill that gap, but it does provide vivid and insightful portraits of some of our more prominent treasurers.
24 Oct2015
Trudeau beats Harper but Canada could prove hard to change
Today in The Australian
As he prepares to leave 24 Sussex Drive, the large, somewhat dilapidated, limestone house in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa that is the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers, Stephen Harper remains an enigmatic figure.
As he prepares to leave 24 Sussex Drive, the large, somewhat dilapidated, limestone house in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa that is the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers, Stephen Harper remains an enigmatic figure.
19 Oct2015
Labor must get over its bad case of Malcolm envy
Today in The Australian
Like Portnoy, Tanya Plibersek has a complaint. And with all of Labor piling on to the psychiatrist’s couch, she isn’t alone. But there’s no need to call Dr Freud. The problem is simple enough: Malcolm envy.
Like Portnoy, Tanya Plibersek has a complaint. And with all of Labor piling on to the psychiatrist’s couch, she isn’t alone. But there’s no need to call Dr Freud. The problem is simple enough: Malcolm envy.
12 Oct2015
Plain truth: Farhad Jabar was a murderer, not a victim
Today in The Australian
On this, let us be absolutely clear: Farhad Jabar, who shot police accountant Curtis Cheng, was not a victim but a murderer.
On this, let us be absolutely clear: Farhad Jabar, who shot police accountant Curtis Cheng, was not a victim but a murderer.
05 Oct2015
Echo chamber magnifies sense of Muslim grievance
In The Australian today
According to senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Turnbull government, the young Muslims who are being drawn into the extremism that led Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad to murder a NSW Police Force employee last Friday feel “disengaged” and “disenfranchised”.
According to senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs in the Turnbull government, the young Muslims who are being drawn into the extremism that led Farhad Jabar Khalil Mohammad to murder a NSW Police Force employee last Friday feel “disengaged” and “disenfranchised”.