December 17, 2008 – 8:37 pm
Melbourne blogger, author, PR guru and football fanatic, Gerry McCusker is calling for nominations for this prestigious award, for which there is never any shortage of deserving candidates.
Personally, it is difficult to see how you could go past the NSW Government this year. After all, they lost a Premier, Deputy Premier, Treasurer, Health Minister and [...]
December 7, 2008 – 4:41 pm
Eight senior Australian economists have written to Prime Minister Rudd suggesting, among other things, an immediate reduction of the compulsory contribution rate from 9% to 6% followed by a gradual doubling to 12% in the years between 1 July 2010 and 1 July 2015.
An increase to 12% (or even 15%) is a worthy idea and [...]
By Trevor Cook
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Also posted in Business & economics, Federal politics
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Tagged Allan Fels, Carr, Economists letter, global financial crisis, Ian Harper, Iemma, Kevin Rudd, Mike Waller, Nicholas Gruen, NSW Government, Rees, Rod Glover, Saul Eslake, superannuation, Tony Cole, Tony Harris
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December 6, 2008 – 3:04 am
Premier Rees was alive to the irony:
“This speech was written before the last week so it’s full of light-hearted puns around excessive amounts of alcohol,” Mr Rees said in his speech.
“I’m having to scan as I go through.”
Meanwhile, health ministers have agreed to look at tougher restrictions on alcohol advertising. The idea was presented by Health [...]
December 5, 2008 – 6:31 am
I am glad to see that this issue is starting to get some traction. I voiced my outrage about it a few weeks ago:
Health Minister John Della Bosca has made a lame attempt to justify the ludicrous charging for blood decision. Really, you can only hope he doesn’t believe this nonsense. I’ve also written to the Red [...]
November 15, 2008 – 10:53 am
The Rees Government is starting to resemble the famous ‘dead parrott’ sketch, this dear readers is a dead government. So many fronts, so much bad news. If it hangs around until 2011, the Rees Government will destroy Labor in NSW for a generation, if not forever.
Here are some of today’s highlights:
NSW Treasury Secretary, John Pierce, [...]
November 13, 2008 – 8:42 am
Most people, including many in the Liberal Party, think that Barry O’Farrell and the Opposition parties in NSW should be at least twenty points ahead in the polls given just how bad Nathan Rees and the NSW ALP are travelling.
Make no mistake the Rees Government daily plumbs new depths. Tuesday’s mini-budget got the worst public [...]
By Trevor Cook
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Tagged ALP, elections, Jeff Kennett, Joe Hockey, John Brogden, Ken Henry, Liberals, Mike Baird, Nationals, NSW, O'Farrell, polls, Rees, Rudd
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November 2, 2008 – 10:21 am
Nathan Rees has only been NSW Premier for two months but already his dismally bad performance has his federal ALP colleagues (who are due to go to the polls in 2010, before Rees in March 2011) very concerned, prompting this extraordinary front-page Sun-herald story today. Some key excerpts:
The Prime Minister has pointed the finger at [...]
November 1, 2008 – 3:52 am
Nathan Rees really does come up with some corkers. We’ve had the black panthers and the love and traffic episodes and now he says we’re all a bit down in the dumps:
The Premier said he believed Sydney was “demoralised” and he wanted to “turn that around”.
If Sydney is demoralised, the ALP Government of recent years [...]
November 1, 2008 – 3:43 am
The SMH carries a story today that the disappointing Nathan Rees, having dropped the ball on rail transport, is now going to add an extra burden on peak hour car commuters:
THE Premier has declared he wants cashless tolls on all of Sydney’s major roads so motorists pay varying fees at different times of the day [...]
October 27, 2008 – 5:42 am
Another hard-hitting piece:
TEN years after unveiling its bold transport plan for Sydney, the State Government has failed to build a single one of the five major rail projects it promised.
In a damning indictment, The Daily Telegraph has found that of the five projects outlined by then-premier Bob Carr – fast trains to Newcastle and [...]
