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Why Australia is not Ireland

April 20, 2009 – 4:17 pm

Paul Krugman has a good piece today on the plight of the Irish economy, it’s headed towards depression. Two reasons (no doubt there are more) why Australia is (not yet) headed that way too is the strong fiscal position and strong banking sector (well-regulated) that was built up in Australia during our recent long boom. [...]

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I’m so sick of hearing about Peter Costello

March 10, 2009 – 2:43 pm

I’ve ranted about this before but today I give a real vent on ABC Unleashed
The latest opinion poll shows voters would prefer Peter Costello to be the Liberal leader over Malcolm Turnbull. However, Trevor Cook says Costello doesn’t have what it takes to be prime minister.
“If Costello wants the job he will still have to [...]

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What the Dickens, Costello?

February 23, 2009 – 12:20 am

One of Evelyn Waugh’s bitterest satires, if such a fine distinction can be drawn, is A Handful of Dust. The hero of the novel Tony Last is a decent man whose life is destroyed by the barely concealed barbarity of those around him. Poor Tony’s final humiliation is to be imprisoned in a remote jungle [...]

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Will Rudd’s ’social capitalism’ fly?

February 1, 2009 – 4:00 pm

Labour, and social democratic, politicians have spent the past few decades, since the bankruptcy of socialism as a workable ideology, searching for new ways to distinguish themselves intellectually from their conservative opponents while essentially cleaving to the same ideology which appeals to business and middle class constituents.
Rudd’s ’social capitalism’ to be outlined in an essay [...]

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At last some sense on student unionism

November 3, 2008 – 11:44 am

One of the silliest, and stupidly destructive, decisions of the Howard Government was the introduction of ‘voluntary student unionism’. This was an ideological battle left over from the 1970s that had remained an obsession with people like Tony Abbott, Peter Costello and Eric Abetz.
All that happened was that services provided on campuses around the [...]

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