In The Australian today:
"On April 20, 2008, 1000 of the "nation's best and brightest thinkers" rose in stage-managed unison to give a triumphant Kevin Rudd a standing ovation. With the delegates to the 2020 Summit having agreed that 1 per cent of all public spending should be devoted to the arts and that every employer should be obliged to provide 30 minutes of free fitness training a day, the imagination had seized power. And Rudd, who had guided Labor out of the wilderness, was its messiah."
08 Jul2013
Carbon folly comes at a price
In The Australian:
"Good on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the $10 billion fund established by Labor's climate change package. Other government efforts at picking winners end up shafting taxpayers. The CEFC is doing so from the start."
"Good on the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the $10 billion fund established by Labor's climate change package. Other government efforts at picking winners end up shafting taxpayers. The CEFC is doing so from the start."
01 Jul2013
Super Kevin is the I of the storm
In The Australian today:
"The trouble with Kevin is that he's unfit to govern. On that his former colleagues are right. And when no less an authority than Stephen Conroy thinks you're certifiable, the home for the bewildered surely beckons."
"The trouble with Kevin is that he's unfit to govern. On that his former colleagues are right. And when no less an authority than Stephen Conroy thinks you're certifiable, the home for the bewildered surely beckons."
24 Jun2013
No happy return on carbon tax
In The Australian today:
"Will he, won't he? Will she, won't she? Maybe only her hairdresser knows for sure. But regardless of whether Labor's soap opera ends with a bang or a whimper, one thing seems a sure bet - the carbon tax, a year old next week, won't survive to a second birthday."
"Will he, won't he? Will she, won't she? Maybe only her hairdresser knows for sure. But regardless of whether Labor's soap opera ends with a bang or a whimper, one thing seems a sure bet - the carbon tax, a year old next week, won't survive to a second birthday."
22 Jun2013
US speedtrap needs fiscal shock absorber
In The Australian today:
"The past week's financial turbulence seems somewhat paradoxical. After all, Wednesday's statement by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, which triggered the largest fall in US stockmarkets in a year, reflected the Fed's perception of an improving outlook for the American economy."
"The past week's financial turbulence seems somewhat paradoxical. After all, Wednesday's statement by Ben Bernanke, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, which triggered the largest fall in US stockmarkets in a year, reflected the Fed's perception of an improving outlook for the American economy."
17 Jun2013
Costly course of a ship of fools
In The Australian today:
"Having picked the wrong lifeboat, Labor seems set to clamber back on the Titanic. With the mast broken, the rudder lost and the rocks looming, the backbench's panic is understandable: and their despair is far more credible than Julia Gillard's claim that the raft really is afloat and making headway."
"Having picked the wrong lifeboat, Labor seems set to clamber back on the Titanic. With the mast broken, the rudder lost and the rocks looming, the backbench's panic is understandable: and their despair is far more credible than Julia Gillard's claim that the raft really is afloat and making headway."