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Kisses all round as clean energy bills pass the House
When the last vote finally came to adopt the 18 clean energy bills as complete package, former Slater & Gordon lawyer Adam Bandt broke into a broad grin, his election night pronouncements 14 months ago having born fruit.
Tax forum gave us naked policy debate and no horseshit
If you want to improve the debate in Australia, if you want real public debate in this country rather than the dismal sloganeering of the unhinged — this tax forum is a marvelous template.
A taxing two days in Canberra
Crikey media wrap: Tax isn’t a sexy topic, but Treasurer Wayne Swan’s two-day tax forum produced a few ideas worth getting excited about.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Wayne Swan peaks due to tax summit
The tax summit helped push Wayne Swan up to second, swapping places with the happy little vegemite down at the Foreign Office.
Political snippets: A job well done
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan have done a good job in turning this week’s Canberra tax forum into a political non-event.
The Asian Century: Canberra readjusts the policy settings
If there is a conceptual shift on display in yesterday’s white paper launch, it is from Australia’s firm attachment to the construct of the Asia Pacific towards the “Asian Century”, writes Graeme Dobell.
Hockey hunts for class on the Swan gong
Joe Hockey’s attack on Swan over the Euromoney award was not just graceless but missed an opportunity.
Ask the economists: is Wayne Swan the world’s best treasurer?
Is Wayne Swan the world’s most effective money manager? Euromoney has crowned him, but Crikey put the questions to our own economists for their assessment.
Wayne Swan: world’s greatest treasurer?
Could Australia have another ‘World’s Greatest Treasurer’ on its hands with Wayne Swan? Don’t tell Paul Keating, but it seems the answer is ‘Yes’. Or so says Laurie Oakes, writes Paul Barry.
Political snippets: Spare a sympathetic thought for Wayne.
According to a study, there is no evidence that voters are at all interested in whether their economies are performing better relative to other economies in other countries.
China’s property bubble billionaires get fat but face govt cooling
China’s property and construction barons took top spots on the latest China Rich List, writes Jonathan Chancellor editor of Property Observer
As the economy improves, Labor’s ownership of it deteriorates
The stronger the economy seems under Labor, the less Labor gets any credit for it. Labor should be pondering why and front and centre in any such inquiry should be Wayne Swan.
Political snippets: Premature self congratulation? And Hu’s coming to dinner
Premature self congratulation? Given the spate of bad headlines Labor had been getting it was natural enough for Treasurer Wayne Swan to express his pleasure at the gross domestic product figures yesterday showing that the economy is growing again. Pronouncing that the return to growth showed the economy was in good shape. Adding that the […]
Keane: the lessons of 2008, anyone?
While overseas events take on the terrible look of 2008, Australian politicians are locked in a debate about fiscal symbols rather than economic reality.
Wayne Swan and the politics of…beer
Wayne Swan now potentially has on his plate the loss of part of our national heritage, with Australia’s most popular beer brands being bid for by a South African. Beer is not something Aussies think rationally about, writes Richard Farmer.
Political snippets: ABS reveals where the money is
The Australian Bureau of Statistics this morning released a study showing where Australia’s highest paid wage and salary earners live.
Political snippets: Swan song should have different lyrics
When the Treasurer thinks it is reassuring to tell retirees not to panic by taking the dollars out of their super funds, we know that he must be getting jittery.
Political snippets: Kev flying by the seat of …
Kevin Rudd’s ambition to secure a seat for Australia on the United Nations Security Council is causing the first serious public rift for years within the Labor Party over Israel.
Never mind the congestion, feel the stupid from the Telegraph
The mention of congestion charging in the Tax Forum discussion paper has brought out the stupid at News Ltd.
Participation and mobility dominate Tax Forum paper
Wayne Swan has released the government discussion paper for its Tax Forum in October.
Political snippets: Black Swan unhappy with scare campaign
Treasurer Wayne Swan was going on again this morning about the dish0nest scare campaign that the Opposition is running.
James Packer shows off his Labor Right pulling power
The James Packer ALP advisory team of Graham Richardson, Karl Bitar and former Kim Beazley chief-of-staff Gary O’Neill, today have played one of their trump cards in the campaign to head off Andrew Wilkie’s pokies reform agenda.
podcast Canberra Calling: The happy days are at an end my friends podcast
This week Canberra Corespondent Bernard Keane and Crikey’s editor Sophie Black tackle the live export trade, Labor’s divide over the Malaysian detention of asylum seekers and … Bob Katter.
Labor knows the rituals of communication but not their meaning
This time around, the Government is fighting back against rentseekers on climate change. But it still lacks a strategy.
