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Sinclair Davidson
Mining pays its way
To blame Martin Ferguson for all the ills of the Rudd-Gillard government as Richard Denniss has done highlights exactly the credibility problem the...
Mine tax didn't add up
Lord Kelvin famously said that without numbers "your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind". Unfortunately, even with numbers your...
Gillard's jobs plan will suffocate business with more red tape
At best, government can redistribute wealth but usually it just destroys wealth. The government's $1 billion jobs plan announced yesterday falls...
PM's election call is hardly a boon for the business community
Julia Gillard has now confirmed what everyone already knew: there will be an election sometime in August or September this year. We now know the...
Labor Treasurer's promise now surplus to requirements
Can you imagine if John F. Kennedy had announced that the US would send a man to the moon, and then leave him there? Bringing him home would be too...
Timing is everything: making sense of Swan's corporate tax shake-up
One of the more contentious issues in the 2012-13 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) is a tax-timing change. Corporate income tax will be...
Making 'stuff' doesn't cut it: why Australia shouldn't have a motor industry
Australia shouldn't have a motor car industry - well not an industry dependent on corporate welfare. Many Australians struggle with that idea -...
Fairfax is broke and dying before our eyes
Every business needs paying customers. Who those paying customers are varies from business to business. The single largest paying customer for...
Counting the costs of higher taxes
Oliver Wendell Holmes, jnr famously said that he liked paying income tax: it was the price of civilisation. Sure, he bought his civilisation at...
Government must live within its means
The Latin phrase quis custodiet ipsos custodes used to be the most important idea in our democracy. Regrettably those days are long gone. These...