...is unstoppable.
Australia's Rio Tinto used to find it hard to give away some of the iron ore it pulled out the dirt in the Pilbra. This week it scored a near doubling in its iron ore selling price - on top of the doubling it has enjoyed since 2004. Its critics say it could have got even more.
On the outskirts of Melbourne Australia’s biggest tyre factory this week declared that it had to
His report is due out in four weeks.
Professor Ross Garnaut is upset.
In his lecture at the ANU on Thursday night he said the public discussion of his climate change review had become “pretty ragged”.
In his ageless book-lined office in the ANU’s Coombs Building he is more blunt, using words he asks me not to print.
The distinguished economist, former ambassador to China, former right hand to
What ever happened to the promised pain?
All throughout the bureaucracy at the end of this week they are asking the one question: how many tough ideas were bowled all the way to the up to the Prime Minister’s office in the lead-up to the Budget and then knocked back?
There must have been many.
As early as last November just before the election Kevin Rudd warned us that his first Budget would
There's a whale in the room.
If, like most of us, you are worried about the price of petrol, I am the bearer of bad news.
You are likely to worry more.
The reason why has a lot to do with whales.
But before turning to the creatures that used to provide our oil for heating in the days before petroleum, it's worth looking at how we're coping now.
In a remarkably successful attack on the
It's hurting us.
Every second longer that is spent on the current phony political debate about petrol prices increases the permanent price pressure soon to hit Australian households.
It may already be too late.
To understand why ordinary Australian households are actually at risk from the petrol-price posturing that’s going on in Parliament it is necessary to look at the other energy debate
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