MYEFO missing points on long-term recovery: ACTU
Unemployment numbers were reported to have improved on Thursday while federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg claimed that Australia’s economy was rebounding – but the Australian Council […]
MYEFO
MYEFO will be interesting
The latest Monthly Financial Statement from the government raises some questions regarding their claim/aim to be in surplus and their assertion that they are “paying […]
Merry Christmas, Gina and Rupert
If you go to Tony Abbott’s Facebook page, at time of writing, you will find six threads about the Martin Place siege and one about […]
Message of the day
As Lenore Taylor reported on Friday, every morning the major parties send out the “messages” of the day. These aren’t really super-secret documents since ministers […]
How to pay for a war
The Treasurer said if Mr Shorten was “honest” about his promise of bi-partisan support for Australia’s mission in Iraq, he would pass budget measures currently […]
Chris Bowen misses an opportunity.
Yesterday Chris Bowen addressed the National Press Club to announce a Labor initiative to have the independent Parliamentary Budget Office prepare the forecasts to be […]
Honesty … what’s that?
When the Charter of Budget Honesty was introduced by the Howard/Costello government in 1998 it was intended to provide a framework for the conduct of […]
To my local member
Dear Ms Lucy Wicks, Thank you for your recent unsolicited advertising pamphlet. Unfortunately it contains a great many errors which I am sure you would […]
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others”
The Charter of Budget Honesty was introduced to stop incoming governments from claiming the previous government lied about the true state of the nation’s finances. […]
Let’s get real here
“TONY Abbott and Joe Hockey are convinced the government will be punished electorally if it does not produce a tough budget, and they believe there […]