ECONOMICS: Australian Economy
ECONOMICS
Restructuring the economy to emit less carbon. Grattan Institute
Part 1 | Part 2Recently a report was commissioned by Grattan Institute into the likely effects of a carbon price on the operations of...
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POLITICS
Comment: The Economic Myths of Peter Costello
Andrew Charlton
On 23 September 2004, three days before the launch of his re-election campaign, John Howard visited the marginal seat of Deakin in the...
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WORLD
Comment: Gough Whitlam at 95 Years
Lindsay Tanner
Many books have been written about the political drama of the Whitlam years, particularly the government’s ultimate dismissal by Governor-...
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ECONOMICS
The Sun King: Shi Zhengrong
Eric Knight
Shi took six months to make his decision. He had arrived in Australia the year before the Tiananmen Square protests had engulfed his...
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Margaret Simons
Only a few years ago you could see them being preyed upon at major city railway stations. Touts would hand out leaflets urging them to...
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The Cult of Green
Paul Barry
In the four years BBL was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Phil Green and his team of tyros harvested more than $2...
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China's Quarry
Paul Barry
Eighty metres below our vantage point is a flat oblong the size of 15 footy fields. Deep red in colour – because the vegetation has been...
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Guy Pearse
Next time you fly, grab your in-flight magazine or newspaper, carefully rip out a few pages, jot a few words on each, smile knowingly to...
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Fire Walk with Me
Paul Barry
The fictional version would have been far more fun: a factory burnt down to claim the insurance, politicians and businessmen cashing in on...
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ECONOMICS
The Hard Stuff
Malcolm Knox
It was a recession; that’s my excuse. A friend got me a job interview with the world’s second-biggest management consultancy. A man and a...
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ECONOMICS
The great financial panic. Paul Keating and David Wessel
Paul Keating
Part 1 | Part 2The past 18 months has seen almost unprecedented turmoil in the world’s financial markets. Even now, market jitters continue...
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ECONOMICS
Restructuring the economy to emit less carbon (p2)
Part 1 | Part 2Recently a report was commissioned by Grattan Institute into the likely effects of a carbon price on the operations of...
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Coe & Co.
Paul Barry
Coe’s best mate, Gordon Fell, is just as bright and another paragon of virtue. The former Rhodes scholar, who made his millions selling...
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POLITICS
Comment: New Labour & The ALP
Tim Soutphommasane
For much of the last three years, the conventional wisdom has been that Britain’s New Labour was experiencing its slow death under Gordon...
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POLITICS
Comment: Health Reform
Bill Bowtell
In a bold reform package unveiled in March, Kevin Rudd proposes that the Commonwealth government should assume the dominant responsibility...
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Dangerous Precedent: The Melbourne Model
Margaret Simons
Davis mentions the book when I ask him why, at a time when the higher education sector is more stressed than ever before, he is trying to...
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7 February 2012
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