Mr Swan's recent article at the Chifley Research Centre's website sets out to attack the IPA, Tony Abbott, the CIS and anyone else in favour of freedom. Fair Go Under Fire? Maybe he should look in the mirror first and focus on that pesky thing called the budget!
Read More: http://chifley.org.au/opinion/fair-go-under-fire/
Hopefully the punditry is wrong and descent into a Romanesque end isn't the final curtain call, writes Tim Humphries
It began with an interview I did with Libertarian radio host of the popular LRM.FM program Liberty Conspiracy with Gardner Goldsmith. The touchstones of North and South Korea plunged our cordial conversation into Trade, International Relations, Currency and the Economic drivers of same both at home and abroad.
The interlocking histories of Australian, American and Chinese involvement on the world stage also figured prominently. However what grabbed my attention was the idea that America was sliding from the world stage and that her pre-eminence was being usurped by China.
Vic Forbes asks, which is worse - gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout?
Alarmists try to scare us by claiming that man’s activities are causing global warming. Whether and when we may see new man-made warming is disputed and uncertain. If it does appear, the world will be slightly warmer, with more evaporation and rainfall; plants will grow better and colonise some areas currently too cold or too dry; fewer old people will die in winter and sea levels may continue the gradual rise we have seen since the end of the last ice age.
Continue reading "Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?" »
Announcing, the Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom is calling for submissions from libertarians and conservatives who need academic brownie points. Go check out the journal, it has lots of great content. Definitely worth your time if you love freedom!
Read More: http://www.jppf.com.au
Medicine is pressured by a radical socialist transformation. Some of this is top down. Much of it is bottom up, writes Dr Grant N Ross
For 2 years I was the Melbourne University Liberal Club’s token doctor. Turning up late, or never, I would always be out of kilter with JSM, political theories and fights of the day and somewhat under the impression that Kroger was a kind of cheese. Luckily, being a stereotype got me over the line.
I would like to redeem my standing by attempting to write about the direction of health under Labor and the alternative policy direction the Liberal Party should choose when in Government.Continue reading "MUST READ: A Health Warning For Liberals" »
"It is highly offensive to the millions of Australians who are currently on pensions. We have had a lot of responses from people this morning and they are insulted by the suggestion."
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/money/pensioners-fume-at-welfare-fraud-claims-20120925-26ii2.html#ixzz27WNRXZzS
Pensioners around Australia will be rushing to their
mattresses and cookie jars as the Herald reveals the true reason for a
dwindling economy. “Elderly Australians committing welfare fraud on a massive
scale are behind the extraordinarily high number of $100 notes in circulation,
a former senior Reserve Bank official says.”
“One popular explanation is that
they are used for illegal transactions as part of the cash economy.” Former
Reserve official, Peter Mair, rejects that notion as a “furphy”.
Now that we know exactly who is buggering the economy, “elderly Australians”
will be flocking to clubs and large businesses to break their stash of $100
bills into 50’s to avoid the tentacles of The Australian Taxation Office. Not
to mention the evil looks and snide remarks like “tax cheat” from cash register
personnel against those who prefer larger notes. Money that wicked “elderly”
earned, paid tax on, and saved.
However, Mair blamed “elderly people” for hiding cash income to increase pension benefits. “The bank is basically facilitating a tax avoidance scheme by issuing high denomination notes,” he told the Herald. “They are not needed for day-to-day transaction purposes, or even as reasonable stores of value.” What poppycock Mr. Mair!
From the Daily Telegraph today:
Australia’s unemployment rate rose to 5.2 per cent in February, official figures show.
The January figure was unrevised 5.1 per cent.
Total employment fell 15,400 to 11.444 million in the month, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today.
The market forecast was for total employment to have risen by 5000 in February with the unemployment rate at 5.2 per cent, according to the median of 17 market economists surveyed by AAP.
Ok - So 17 market economists missed a fall of 20,400 people but got the unemployment rate correct.
From the BoltA today:
The collapse of the overseas price of carbon dioxide emissions overseas has destroyed Treasury’s modeling of the costs of the Gillard Government’s carbon tax. One of the key assumptions of the modeling is now completely false:
Core policy scenario — Assumes a world with a 550 ppm stabilisation target and an Australian emission target of a 5 per cent cut on 2000 levels by 2020 and an 80 per cent cut by 2050. Assumes a nominal domestic starting price of A$20/t CO2-e in 2012-13, rising 5 per cent per year, plus inflation, before moving to a flexible world price in 2015-16, projected to be around A$29/t CO2-e.
In fact, the world price is tipped to be just a third of what Treasury assumed. New modeling is urgently needed.
Actually the DEC2015 ICE ECX EUA Futures contract closed on 6th March 2012 at 10.86 euros or A$13.48/t CO2-e
Federal Treasury are only wrong by a margin of $15.52
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