If there’s a certain bet flowing from last weekend’s Gippsland by-election result, it’s the proposition that any inclusion of petrol in Labor’s emissions trading scheme will be carefully structured to avoid any adverse price impacts at all in the short-medium term (or that they’ll be fully compensated for everyone). Read more »
Last week the mainstream media devoted tens of thousands of words to “analysing” the effects of the Brough/Howard NT Indigenous Intervention. Read more »
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Sandy Levinson comments on recently deceased senior American political journalist Tim Russert: Read more »
In a marginal note to Missing Link the other day, I expressed the view that Jason Soon and Helen Dale’s advocacy for the LDP’s Negative Income Tax + abolition of minimum wage policy was “persuasive”. And so it was at first glance. Despite my frequently scathing remarks about extreme libertarians who think taxation is theft, the state is evil and property rights (however ill-gotten) are Read more »
It is to my indescribable shame that I own up to having once been an active student politician, first at the University of Sydney and thereafter at Charles Darwin University. I have been a paid up Liberal Student since 2000 and I still am through the UWA Liberal Club, though these days I see myself as a “hack emeritus” and stay out of the scene. Read more »
Andrew Landeryou’s enthusiastic blog belongs in a genre all its own: lawsuit-bait. A lot of what he writes is shameless propaganda.
Take this latest effort, for example:
The conservatives had a stunning result in Gippsland.
In recent times, mainly after Nelson’s promises to cut petrol taxes, the OC has been thinking that the good doctor might just have what it takes to survive and even prosper as Liberal leader.
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It’s good to see that Melbourne academic Paul Mees continues to fight the good fight for rational public transport policy, unbowed by the disgraceful actions of his employer the University of Melbourne in recently demoting him at the behest of the Victorian government. Read more »
Is it just me or do other Troppo readers appreciate the irony (or rank hypocrisy depending on your level of cynicism) of the main exponents and proselytisers of fairness and equality in our society apparently applying a completely double standard, when it comes to their own remuneration and access to social security payments? Read more »
Once again abusing my posting privileges, I’d like to draw the attention of Troppodillians to The Wonkery, where I am looking for ideas on how to rate and index inquiries.
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