"A strange thing happened to the "public interest" test for media ownership as it made its way from the Productivity Commission's 2000 broadcasting report to Stephen Conroy's 2012 Convergence Review. The PC designed the test to apply only to major media mergers. But with little discussion and less explanation, the Convergence Review, while citing the PC report as the authority for such a test, expanded it to cover mere changes of ownership."
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25 Jun2012
Bad ideas are slow killers
Henry in The Australian Monday 25 June 2012:
Beaming from ear to ear, Wayne Swan declared the latest figures on Australia's economic growth "stunning". As for Julia Gillard, she hailed the "remarkable" data as "proving the doomsayers and sceptics wrong". "They are proof," Swan added, "that something special is happening in our country."
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Beaming from ear to ear, Wayne Swan declared the latest figures on Australia's economic growth "stunning". As for Julia Gillard, she hailed the "remarkable" data as "proving the doomsayers and sceptics wrong". "They are proof," Swan added, "that something special is happening in our country."
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18 Jun2012
Carbon impost a recipe for low wages
Henry in The Australian Monday 18 June 2012:
"Next year, each man, woman and child in this country will pay $450 in electricity charges for "green schemes", including the carbon tax, renewable energy targets and solar feed-in tariffs."
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"Next year, each man, woman and child in this country will pay $450 in electricity charges for "green schemes", including the carbon tax, renewable energy targets and solar feed-in tariffs."
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11 Jun2012
GST punishes resourceful states to reward the rest
Henry in The Australian Monday 11 June 2012:
"Two weeks after being elected, Kevin Rudd convened the state and territory premiers to announce "a historic new era of co-operative federalism" that would, at long last, "fix the federation". Five years later, Australian federalism lies in tatters."
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"Two weeks after being elected, Kevin Rudd convened the state and territory premiers to announce "a historic new era of co-operative federalism" that would, at long last, "fix the federation". Five years later, Australian federalism lies in tatters."
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04 Jun2012
Treasury's arguments against royalties seriously flawed
Henry in The Australian Monday 4 June 2012:
"Here's the rub," Julia Gillard told the nation's mining executives at last week's Minerals Council annual dinner; "you don't own the minerals". But she carefully omitted to say precisely who does. For she knows full well the commonwealth no more owns those minerals than it owns the moon."
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"Here's the rub," Julia Gillard told the nation's mining executives at last week's Minerals Council annual dinner; "you don't own the minerals". But she carefully omitted to say precisely who does. For she knows full well the commonwealth no more owns those minerals than it owns the moon."
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28 May2012
Better for Club Med to stay in eurozone and face up to reform
"It is far easier to make a fish soup out of an aquarium than the other way around. And once the soup has been made, it is a bit late to try to extricate a particularly inedible goldfish. "
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