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Hockey contrasts Labor’s “cash splash mentality” with Coalition financial plan
In a Liberal Party email newsletter today, Hockey highlighted a number of key differences between the Coalition’s “responsible approach to financial management” and Labor’s “cash splash mentality”.
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Budget is an “ignoble piece of work” that offends the intelligence, Abbott says
“If the carbon tax won’t hurt anyone why is the government topping up compensation in this budget?” Opposition Leader Tony Abbott asked in his Budget reply speech tonight. “On day one, a new government would order the carbon tax repeal.”
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Joe Hockey sums up the Budget: carbon tax, more debt and “cooked books”
“This Budget again confirms that Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have no plan to build a stronger economy, repay debt or create secure jobs,” Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey says.
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Eight local councils are on Gillard Govt’s carbon tax hit list, Barnaby Joyce says
It’s on your toast in the morning, it’s on your television when you get home from work and now even if you go outside at night and look at the stars, the Gillard Government’s carbon tax is on the ground you stand on.
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Tony Abbott announces the Coalition’s plan for the infrastructure of the future
A federal Coalition government, if elected, will task Infrastructure Australia with preparing a rolling 15-year national infrastructure plan, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said today.
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Thank God for James Delingpole – Tim Blair on the UK author, columnist
Tim Blair writes that James Delingpole correctly realises that global warming is overwhelmingly a political issue. And also a rich target for jokes.
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Better to adapt to climate change than impoverish the world, Nick Minchin says
There is a real risk that we’ll waste billions of dollars and potentially increase poverty around the world through “vain efforts” to try to stop or reduce carbon dioxide emissions, former South Australian Liberal senator Nick Minchin says.
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The entrepreneurial society requires a new approach from political parties
If political parties are going to be serious about economic growth, then surely their thinking has to start from the individual, self-employed, small business perspective, Ken Phillips says.
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Green brand “dying slowly” as economic reality bites, marketing strategist says
The “green brand” has been dying slowly since 2007-08 and the number of supporters are nearly now matched by the number of sceptics, marketing strategist David Chalke says.
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Feminist juggernaut could lead to relative disadvantage of men
“Double standards on gender, to the extent that they remain, are now applied in favour [of] women leaders, not against them,” writes John Muscat at Quadrant Online.
Budget 2012: The more you look at it, the worse it gets
Labor’s 2012 Budget confirms that Julia Gillard and Wayne Swan have no plan to build a stronger economy, repay debt or create secure jobs, the Liberal Party said today.
Territorians will be slugged more for electricity, Natasha Griggs says
Federal Member for Solomon Natasha Griggs, in a media release today, said Territorians will be slugged more for electricity after Power Water was included on the carbon tax hit list.
Ken Phillips: The rise of a new work and job culture is a challenge and an opportunity
More from Ken Phillips on the shift from a managerial to an entrepreneurial society.
Same-sex marriage is not about equality, ACL’s Jim Wallace tells Senate committee
Mr Wallace told the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs that same-sex and heterosexual relationships are different from each other and can’t be considered equal under Marriage Act.
Labor’s factional warfare at the heart of the party’s problems
The origin of the problems that beset the Labor Party lie in the structure of the party, according to an insider’s view put to South Australian senator Cory Bernardi.
Devil is in the detail of the Gonski school funding report, Kevin Donnelly argues
When judging whether the Gonski Report and recommendations represent a threat to the autonomy and financial viability of non-government schools, the first thing to note is that the report’s recommendations, at the moment, are hypothetical.
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Plenty of pie flying around on ABC’s Q&A
Andrew McIntyre picked up on an exchange between ABC1’s Q&A presenter Tony Jones and panellist Judith Sloan about growing, shrinking and sharing the economic pie.
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We’re already getting a taste of global governance in immigration and environment policies, Keith Windschuttle says
In the wake of former Greens’ leader Bob Brown’s advocacy of a democratically elected bicameral world parliament, Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle considers what such governance could mean.
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Nick Minchin calls the Labor-Greens carbon tax “probably the worst policy I’ve ever seen inflicted on this country”
Here’s another reminder, if you needed one, why conservatives are regretting Nick Minchin’s absence from the federal Parliament.
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Managing the media for propaganda
The crucial question is whether the federal Labor government’s infatuation with propaganda is an aberration or an enduring feature of Labor’s degeneration into the political wing of a culturally powerful but narrowly based, sectional interest? John Muscat writes at Quadrant Online.
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Tom Switzer: Romney’s Illinois win is a big step towards the GOP nomination
Mitt Romney’s win in the Illinois Republican primary was his most significant victory since Florida, Tom Switzer told ABC TV’s The Drum yesterday.
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Nationals’ Truss says “fly-in/fly-out” Greens not real friends of rural Australia
New Greens’ leader Christine Milne is looking to cultivate more support for her party in rural Australia. Nationals’ leader Warren Truss says the Greens have a history of “just being around when there’s something to protest about”.
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New Taxpayers’ Alliance to be a “do tank” in the drive for smaller government
The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a new activist taxpayer body that says it will be a “do tank” rather than a “think tank”, is set to launch in Sydney next week.
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The QLD election also sent a message to Independents, Barnaby Joyce says
Seven independent members of parliament have been voted out of office since Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott decided to back a federal Greens-Labor government, Barnaby Joyce writes.
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Carbon war erupts in Europe
A battle of world significance has started quietly in Europe. Like all battles it is about energy, resources and ideology, writes Viv Forbes.
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Labor’s dirty tricks in Qld a foretaste of the next federal campaign, Abbott says
“The relentless negativity from the Labor Party, the endless campaign of dirty tricks against Campbell Newman, is a prototype for the campaign that Labor is planning to run in Canberra,” Tony Abbott said today.
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