NSW Labor and old fashioned protectionism
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THE PICK OF THE MORNING’S STORIES
POLITICS AND ECONOMICS Australia Budgets
NSW to buy Aussie-made products to save jobs - Sydney Daily Telegraph Rees sends the state spiralling into red - the Sydney Morning Herald previews the NSW Budget Cash crux hits NSW budget for $1.7bn - The Australian Salesman got a good night’s rest - the Sydney Morning Herald discovers first details of the lavish accommodation that the state Finance Minister, Joe Tripodi, enjoyed on his $300,000 world tour to peddle the state’s electricity assets as doubt emerged that overseas buyers are willing to buy the assets. Ratepayers to feel sting of Queensland State Budget - Brisbane Courier Mail Never say never: bosses urge GST hike - the Business Council wants company tax reduced and GST increased - The Australian Interest rates RBA may be forced to cut rates again - The Australian Bank snubs Rudd and raises rates - again - Sydney Morning Herald gives re-run to the Commonwealth Bank decision For home loan rates, the only way is up - Sydney Morning Herald More banks to copy Commonwealth Bank and rise interest rates - Sydney Daily Telegraph Rate lift: cycle has bottomed - Melbourne Age Other economic matters Auction rates buoy economy - Melbourne Age House prices ‘ready to rise’ - The Australian Australian house prices to rise by up to 20 per cent - Sydney Daily Telegraph Stimulus money will save billions, Treasury says - Sydney Morning Herald Political games Deputy PM Julia Gillard tipped for main job - Adelaide Advertiser Brumby clarion call on branch stacking - Melbourne Age Labor lays energy trap for Opposition - Sydney Morning Herald says legislation creating a renewable energy target will be rushed into Parliament by the Federal Government as soon as today in an effort to pressure the Opposition into declaring its hand on climate change. Turnbull under pressure on alcopops tax - Melbourne Age Public service Rees’ super departments mirror Queensland plan - Sydney Daily Telegraph Emissions trading Emissions scheme set for defeat, say Greens - Melbourne Age Industrial relations Don’t treat workers like criminals: Labor senator - Melbourne Age Rudd to face IR mutiny - The Australian
Surge in building site standover tactics - Adelaide Advertiser Health Tough times force delay to Queensland Sunshine Coast hospital - Brisbane Courier Mail Aboriginal affairs Macklin endorses income quarantining - The Australian Foreign affairs Faulkner wants limited Afghan role - Sydney Morning Herald Australia’s $350K blood money to the victims of war - Sydney Daily Telegraph Gillard’s Israel trip rankles party MPs - Sydney Morning Herald Opinion No rush now for that dignity fix - Phillip Coorey in the Sydney Morning Herald finds Kevin Rudd in no hurry to honor his promise to legislate for four year fixed term parliaments A ‘light on the hill’ for our future tax reformers - The Henry review will be a blueprint for long-term tax reform, not a quick tax fix says Ross Gittins in the Sydney Morning Herald We cannot go on living like this - Peter Doherty argues in the Melbourne Age that humanity has pillaged the planet, but Australia can use its abundant natural resources to forge a new way. Not debt size, but how it’s used, is crucial - Kenneth Davidson in the Melbourne Age on an OECD report that urges governments and business to limit cuts in spending on R&D and innovation and take a long-term view. Ignoring the factional elephants in the room - Glenn Milne in The Australian on the reshuffle that was “an immaculate factional conception”. Climate change plan may well evaporate - writes Malcolm Farr in the Sydney Daily Telegraph Unfair super system needs overhaul - argues Julian Disney in the Sydney Morning Herald Elsewhere Elections
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ‘takes back Tehran’ with hardliners, as police resort to beatings - London Times Opinion Iran’s Crossroads - Nicholas Kristof writes on the New York Times website that it’s impossible to be sure, but Ahmadinejad’s victory looks extraordinarily suspicious. If he won by that margin, he would be the most popular Iranian president ever - which he certainly isn’t. And it seems exceptionally unlikely that he won in Moussavi’s hometown, as the government claims. That’s the problem with dictators - they don’t just try to steal a squeaker of an election, they try to steal a landslide. In the process they lose plausibility and legitimacy. BUSINESS UBS throws Asciano’s board a $2bn lifeline - The Australian Three likely new rivals to challenge ASX - The Australian Business Council baulks at tax cuts - the Business Council of Australia has broken ranks with other business bodies declaring in its submission to the Henry review that it sees no compelling case at present for cutting personal income tax rates further - Sydney Morning Herald ENVIRONMENT
A ‘time bomb’ for world wheat crop - Los Angeles Times Swedes set tough terms for Tasmanian pulp mill - Sydney Morning Herald
Police investigate green group’s letter to Hazelwood boss - Melbourne Herald Sun MEDIA A.P. in Deal to Deliver Nonprofits’ Journalism - Four nonprofit groups devoted to investigative journalism will have their work distributed by The Associated Press, The A.P. will announce on Saturday, greatly expanding their potential audience and helping newspapers fill the gap left by their own shrinking resources - New York Times Media giants fight to survive - APN News and Media’s key shareholder, Independent News & Media, and Network Ten’s majority owner, CanWest, have continued rescue talks with their lenders to find a way out of their debt woes reports the Sydney Morning Herald while creditor deadlines expire this week and next. Web key to newspapers’ survival - writes Mark Day in The Australian Labor’s man behind Kevin 07 steps down - The Australian Chastened Chaser feels the blast of indignation - writes Errol Simper in The Australian Packer wobbled on whether to run Keating piggery story - The Australian records a little 60 Minutes history as John Westacott prepares to retire from Nine LIFE Swine flu
Swine flu - the story so far - Nearly 30,000 people have been infected with the virus in 74 countries and officially killed 145 - Melbourne Age Swine flu alert level raised, more quarantined as virus spreads - Sydney Daily Telegraph One in three could have swine flu - Sydney Morning Herald Education Further education pathway stagnates - the proportion of year 12 graduates who undertake further education or training has remained unchanged over the past two years, and is markedly lower than 2005 levels - despite a concerted effort to improve paths for people who complete school reports the Melbourne Age Sport One more grunt and you’re out: Wimbledon to crack down after complaints - The London Times Audacious Soccer World Cup bid launched - Melbourne Age Diet Health nazis losing obesity war as pies return to school canteens - Sydney Daily Telegraph Gambling Exclusion burden hurts pokie addicts - Melbourne Age Homelessness Homelessness rises in regional areas - Sydney Morning Herald |
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