Gillard knifes Hawke’s red tape reform
IF the government cares about productivity it’s got a strange way of showing it.
IF the government cares about productivity it’s got a strange way of showing it.
WE’VE never made good use of our census but at least we were more open about it.
TREASURY has grossly underestimated the cost of Labor’s emissions reduction policy.
TREASURY secrecy conceals that it has greatly underestimated the cost of cutting emissions.
THE scenario in which we act while our main competitors do not has been ignored.
HALF the revenue from a tax or permits will go overseas, creating a budget shortfall.
THE euro, like the ETS, was imposed without a debate that could have exposed its flaws.
THE NBN deal kills competition, trashes hardware and chains us to a white elephant.
LIKE all other governments, our greenhouse policies are highly costly and ineffective.
WRONG answers will doom the carbon modelling.
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