People & associates
Julie Novak
Defining investment in the federal budget
Language matters, and the Gillard Government is acutely aware of this as demonstrated by the manner in which it abuses it when discussing aspects...
Fear taxpayers to take up disability levy slack
Prime Minister Julia Gillard this week framed the fiscal scenario surrounding the Budget as one in which the growth in government revenue...
The last thing we need is an increase in taxes
Nothing quite sharpens minds more than the realisation that Australia's fiscal problems are substantive and becoming entrenched. After repeated...
Hanging out each others' washing
As the vast amounts of newspaper ink spilt around the country attests, the primary focus of attention on recent labour market statistics has been...
Instead of the state, globalisation has withered
Arguably the most pervasive economic phenomenon of our generation is globalisation, entailing the integration of people, capital, ideas and...
Big debt means staying on same path too risky
Now that the State election is out of the way, the returning Barnett Government should consider a new fiscal strategy to contain WA's runaway debt....
Heavy tax burdens drag down economic performance
In his Drum Opinion column, Joff Lelliott calls for a better understanding of the relationship between the amount of tax collected by governments...
Social spending plans will be a hit ... in the pocket
That the federal election campaign seems set to be dominated by a social policy auction between the two major parties illustrates just how...
Cut leviathan's hunger for tax
The death last week of Nobel prize-winning economist James Buchanan captured newspaper headlines around the world, and for good reason. Taught...
Punish Greens fraudsters
The press release hoax by anti-coal activist Jonathan Moylan represents a new and insidious form of sabotage by green extremists against productive...