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Is it any wonder that Australia’s energy and climate change policy is in a permanent state of confusion, writes Dr Richard Denniss, executive director of Canberra-based think tank The Australia Institute.

Crikey media wrap: Toyota employees were told yesterday that 350 jobs are to be axed from its Altona North factory in Melbourne, in a decision that will affect the entire industry.

You would think, reading the claptrap about why the federal government is giving $34 million to Ford, that there was no such thing as an electric car.

It’s only three years since the car industry was last rescued. Meantime, other parts of manufacturing have got on with the job of lifting productivity.

Crikey media wrap: Kim Carr’s announcement yesterday of a $103 million cash injection for Ford Australia has reignited the debate about the viability of Australia’s automobile manufacturing sector.

There’s no bigger shattering of journalistic hubris than the annual scrum outside the budget lock-up.

Budget cut speculation is centring on the Health portfolio, with big cuts rumoured for medical research. But other areas look safer.

Myer’s Bernie Brookes has a hard day ahead, University of Sydney splashes its cash about, is The Spearman Experiment about to be axed? And trouble on the high seas abord the HMAS Stuart.

Australia might be free from recession and recovering, but the big traditional manufacturing (making) economies of the US, the UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea are still very sick. Demand for goods that are ‘made’ is going to be very weak for some time.

The bottom line is that funding per student in higher education remains lower than before the mid-1990s, and considerably lower than in most OECD countries, writes Erica Cervini.

Industries are lining up for the same sort of generosity that Kim Carr likes to dole out to the car industry.

The Tasmanian Premier has handed over taxpayers funds — he won’t say how much — to a company that has made so much money in recent years it is now the biggest meat processer on the planet.

Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ…

When a business decides it’s time to go, there’s no point berating them or rashly and recklessly offering them suitcases of taxpayers’ dollars hoping to bribe them to stay, writes Greg Barns.

Two industries, two vastly different amounts of protectionism, Bernard Keane reports.

The Government’s stimuls package arrives…

The unprecedented factional deal struck last week between opposing factions in the Victorian ALP could last longer than some pundits are suggesting, writes Andrew Crook.

Bill Shorten is now able to boast to the Prime Minister that the era of factional bloodletting in Victoria is over, writes Andrew Crook.

We need a narrative for the story of this government…