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Energy
Stephen, thanks, another good piece.
Whilst I advocate for a free, competitive, well regulated domestic gas market - that is not what we have in Australia.
Overwhelmingly, most regulations favour gas sellers/developers, in turn encouraging cartel-...
Whilst I advocate for a free, competitive, well regulated domestic gas market - that is not what we have in Australia.
Overwhelmingly, most regulations favour gas sellers/developers, in turn encouraging cartel-...
Keyser Söze
17 Jun, 5:52 PM
National Affairs
Alan, its a bit dis-ingenuous to blame the Labor Party in Australia for underemployment caused (in various ways) by a global financial crisis fueled by globalised, 'free-market', conservative politics. I have never believed the Australian...
Pete Granger
17 Jun, 12:36 PM
Global Economy
Regarding unemployment rates,it looks as though the ABS underutilization rate of 12.8% is similar to the US U6 unemployment rate,currently at 13.8%,whereby the number takes into account people who have given up looking for work,and those that may be...
Stephen Nordstrom
17 Jun, 8:32 AM
Economy
Unintended, Unintended Consequences!
Like Dr. Hartwich discussed today, using monetary policy, as a solution to address severe underying structural issues around labour market, demographics, debt etc. might have provided some 'instant...
Like Dr. Hartwich discussed today, using monetary policy, as a solution to address severe underying structural issues around labour market, demographics, debt etc. might have provided some 'instant...
Keyser Söze
13 Jun, 6:38 PM
Infrastructure
Hi Tristan,
Just a thought, maybe the whyalla project fell over because it is essentially a technology which can only exist with government subsidies. If the project is as compelling, and has such a sound business case, as you alude to, then surely...
Just a thought, maybe the whyalla project fell over because it is essentially a technology which can only exist with government subsidies. If the project is as compelling, and has such a sound business case, as you alude to, then surely...
Andrew Simpson
13 Jun, 2:57 PM
Federal Election
I agree entirely with the general proposition of your article Mr Keane. I would add that we live in a world where innovation and productivity are the keys to success and that these must be the platform on which Government Policy is based. Business...
Robert Peterson
13 Jun, 2:41 PM
Euro Crisis
Cameron, I agree, yet another insightful piece by Oliver.
It reminds me of a saying by Warren Buffet.. 'in the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, the market is a weighing machine'... there is much to draw from...
It reminds me of a saying by Warren Buffet.. 'in the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run, the market is a weighing machine'... there is much to draw from...
Keyser Söze
13 Jun, 12:14 PM
Tax
Jessica, reform number 44 must surely be to abolish payroll tax, the most immoral tax of all. Taxing employers for employing people is obscene and a huge disincentive to creating employment. The tax only continues because States have insufficient...
Peter Heffernan
11 Jun, 12:06 PM
NBN
As usual, the post-modernist Harvard-management-school characters controlling Telstra deluded themselves (just as they do at NBN Co) that by sub-, sub-sub-, and sub-sub-sub-contracting, they could distance themselves from problems, practice...
R. Ambrose Raven
6 Jun, 8:11 AM
Interest Rates
Wouldn't want my kids taking on home loans, if they need the interest rates to stay at 5% for the next 10-20 years. If you can't cover interest rates of say 8% , then you'd be a fool for taking out a loan.
Bruce Meaney
4 Jun, 12:09 PM
Carbon Tax
So Tristan "emission reduction measures are minor" in cost?
Well another way to look at it is that the cost of climate inspired measures, carbon tax, solar and green schemes, on YOUR figures, cost $47 that is more than the cost of the...
Well another way to look at it is that the cost of climate inspired measures, carbon tax, solar and green schemes, on YOUR figures, cost $47 that is more than the cost of the...
Sam Richards
3 Jun, 11:46 AM
Mining Tax
The current government has been spending half its time trying to manufacture consent on a lie that our constitution is too old or does not exist anymore.
The concept of State rating is as absurd as the MRRT example simply not constitutional,
worth...
The concept of State rating is as absurd as the MRRT example simply not constitutional,
worth...
Francois Humbert
20 May, 4:38 PM
Whilst I advocate for a free, competitive, well regulated domestic gas market - that is not what we have in Australia.
Overwhelmingly, most regulations favour gas sellers/developers, in turn encouraging cartel-...