Cheaper electricity or cheaper cars?
It seemed like an innocuous announcement to me. To fund the scrapping of the Carbon ‘tax’, Kevin Rudd would remove the ‘statutory formula’ method for Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) on motor vehicles....
View ArticleAustralia’s dangerous clown
This year’s federal election campaign has been a circus. There has no shortage of entertainment as various (conservative) politicians make clowns of themselves on the campaign trail. First we had the...
View ArticleWalking away from climate change
I apologise for the sombre tone of this post; I fear that regardless of which party wins the Australian federal election on September 7th, the clear loser is climate change. Opposition leader Tony...
View ArticleWhat money can buy
Australia’s federal election last Sunday was a disaster for Labor and the Greens. The reasons are known.. the seeds of this loss were sown in July 2010. This election was also a disaster for democracy...
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