The tragedy of part-time work

The ACTU is concerned about the ‘dramatic and troubling’ increase in the numbers working part-time. And rightly so. For it makes our lives disorderly, wastes valuable energy and impedes millions of young people from fully experiencing the school of life.

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Writing into today’s Age, Michael Power, a lawyer with the self-styled Environment Defenders Organisation, claims “mining is largely uncovered by the carbon tax

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FillingAMuchNeededGap.pdf

Mining pays a relatively low rate of company tax compared to its share of the economy. Mining companies currently account for about 30 per cent of corporate gross operating profits, but only around 15 per cent of corporate tax receipts

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ThereHeGoesAgain.pdf

Henry has contributed a chapter to "Only in Australia: The History, Politics and Economics of Australian Exceptionalism" to be published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.

The project is a book of 15 chapters contributed by twelve authors and to be published in 2016 by Oxford University Press.

The book is about the Australian difference. It is about how Australia in economic and social policy has diverged from the approach of other countries with it might be naturally compared. Australia seems to be following a ‘special path’ of its own that it laid down more than a century ago. Australia’s distinctive bent is manifested in tightly regulated labour market; a heavy reliance on means testing and income taxation; a geographical centralisation of political power combined with its dispersal amongst autonomous authorities, and a readiness to use of compulsion in contexts stretching from saving to voting.

This book to seeks to explain why Australia is different in its policy posture.