EVENTS
Luncheon address: Are our politicians becoming more hopeless?
Henry will be addressing an IMD Alumni Association of Australia luncheon event in Sydney on 26 July 2013."While there is wide agreement that many areas of our economy and society need significant reform, ranging from the tax system to education, actually achieving desirable change is proving a struggle."
For more information and to register, please visit
http://imdaaa26jul13.eventbrite.com.au/#
FEATURED
- Created on Monday, 10 June 2013 01:51
Op eds
Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Julia?
"Have all savings options been explored?"
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- Created on Monday, 03 June 2013 06:41
Op eds
Grow the pie rather than eat it
"There is one crucial result in the Parliamentary Budget Office's report on Australia's fiscal position: from 2001-02 on, the Howard government ran structural budget surpluses every year averaging 1.4 per cent of GDP; while every year it has been in office, Labor has run structural deficits averaging 2.8 per cent of GDP. And even accepting the fog of unreality that is Labor's latest budget, those structural deficits will persist through to at least 2016-17."
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- Created on Monday, 27 May 2013 06:50
Op eds
Taxes put bite on middle-class families
"Middle-class welfare" is not a descriptor; it is a rhetorical device. After all, who but the profligate could defend providing welfare to those who should be able to look after themselves?"
| Taxes put bite on middle-class families_Mon 27 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 72 Kb |
- Created on Saturday, 25 May 2013 06:47
Op eds
Auto industry in its death throes
"Ford's workers are angry. And rightly so. Only weeks ago, both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition reaffirmed their passionate commitment to Australia's car industry. Now, with Ford announcing it will shut down carmaking in Australia in October 2016, their jobs will disappear."
| Auto industry in its death throes _ Sat 25 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 286 Kb |
- Created on Monday, 20 May 2013 06:47
Op eds
It takes brains to be a swindler
"Last week's budget seems the farewell card Labor had to have. It constrains spending, while funding DisabilityCare and the Gonski reforms; it projects sustained revenue increases, with receipts rising twice as rapidly as payments to 2014-15; it heralds a surplus in 2015-16; and it paints a strong picture of the outlook to 2023-24, at which time net debt will be negative and the government will be accumulating assets on behalf of taxpayers."
| It takes brains to be a swindler_Mon 20 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 61 Kb |
- Created on Monday, 13 May 2013 06:11
Op eds
Fiscal fudge worthy of Dr Seuss
"Imagine a wage earner, John." But not Julia Gillard's avatar. Rather, the John who was elected prime minister on March 11, 1996. Inheriting a budget deficit of 2.1 per cent of GDP, he promises a surplus: a year later, he delivers it.
| Fiscal fudge worthy of Dr Seuss_Mon 13 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 64 Kb |
- Created on Monday, 06 May 2013 06:44
Op eds
Cracks in yellow brick road
"In July last year, Julia Gillard curtly dismissed the Liberal premiers' suggestion of a levy to fund the national disability insurance scheme without proposing any alternative. A week ago she "changed her mind". Suddenly, the whole scheme, until then merely aspirational, is suffused in the warm glow of consensus, despite an increasingly dire fiscal outlook."
| Cracks in yellow brick road_Mon 6 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 67 Kb |
- Created on Saturday, 04 May 2013 07:50
Op eds
Bad policy does not just happen
"On November 14, 2007, Labor launched its "economically conservative" fiscal policy. In only 10 lines of text, long since removed from the ALP's website, Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan's media release repeatedly contrasted Labor's promised "restraint" and "discipline" with John Howard's "reckless spending"."
| Bad policy does not just happen _Sat 4 May 2013.pdf | [ ] | 223 Kb |
