by Craig Emerson | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
A triumph of prejudice over policy Australia’s 11th successive trade deficit, the worst in two years, ought to be sounding alarm bells in the Prime Minister’s office. That it is not, smacks of the smugness and complacency of the Howard government....
by Fred Argy | Nov 2, 2002 | Papers
Why fiscal surpluses?The claim is often made that governments which run structural budget surpluses, and achieve this goal through expenditure restraint, are better economic managers than those which run structural deficits. In fact structural surpluses can often...
by Daniel Kutzman | Oct 25, 2002 | Papers
Learning to love Big BrotherHere’s a question for constitutional scholars: Can a sitting president be charged with plagiarism?As President Bush wages his war against terrorism and moves to create a huge homeland security apparatus, he appears to be borrowing...
by Philip Baker | Oct 25, 2002 | Papers
Australia heads to zero public debtThe federal government’s promise to pay off all government debt – using the proceeds of the sale of Telstra – is creating alarm in the heart of Australia’s financial markets.The Sydney Futures Exchange –...
by David Hayward | Oct 18, 2002 | Papers
What role for the public sector?In his analysis of the 1984-85 National Social Science Survey, John Braithwaite found that, while Australians supported private ownership of industry, most wanted governments to continue to own industries as diverse as airlines and...
by Tony Moore | Oct 18, 2002 | Papers
A key challenge for the Australian Labor Party (ALP) is how to encourage the move from an industrial to a post-industrial society without marginalising its traditional supporters, who not unreasonably expect Labor to safeguard their interests. Specifically, Labor...
