Budget panto goes wrong
Monday, 19 May 2014 State of the parties 37 comments
Now having reached the ultimate ritual of the Budget, and economic management, through which the last thirty years political unravelling has been understood, the depth of the government’s problems are finally becoming apparent to all.
Illegitimate – Budget edition
Saturday, 14 May 2011 State of the parties 9 comments
Unlike Labor’s previous bouts of economic rationalism, say, as under Hawke and Keating, this time business aren’t especially asking for it.
Rudd’s Road to Austerity
Tuesday, 28 July 2009 State of the parties 7 comments
These decades of stagnant real wages is the background that is usually forgotten by billionaires like George Soros and Bill Gross when they get worked up about the rise of credit.
The re-election campaign begins
Wednesday, 27 May 2009 Tactics 3 comments
If Labor can look credible enough on climate change, whatever the next election will be fought on, that should be enough to win it.
The state steps in
Monday, 25 May 2009 The Australian state 5 comments
Treasury’s unusual move in projecting growth at a higher trend and for a longer forward projection is necessary to provide a guide path out of the downturn that does not come from the economic programs of the political class.
Bluff and counter-bluff
Sunday, 17 May 2009 Tactics 5 comments
Both parties were just talking tough about going to the electorate with economic programmes that they didn’t have.
What a crisis looks like – an update
Thursday, 14 May 2009 State of the parties 5 comments
So if the downturn is unprecedented, why has then Treasury chosen this time to change its methodology to more allow for the experience of past economic recoveries than ever before?
The coming non-event – 2009 edition
Monday, 11 May 2009 Tactics 7 comments
Predictions of some officials in Washington, London and Paris that the economy would begin to recover within a year, are based on no other reason than they wouldn’t know what to do if it didn’t.
Gently falling apart – a further update
Thursday, 22 May 2008 Tactics Comments Off on Gently falling apart – a further update
A strangely unsettled mood seems to have settled over national politics in the last week. Debate over the Budget is still rattling around but with no coherent theme having emerged from either side while the media keep worrying over it like a dog with a bone.
The New Sensitivity
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 Key posts, Tactics Comments Off on The New Sensitivity
Turnbull was dead right on Sunday that the government has a political strategy, not an economic one. Unfortunately, Turnbull doesn’t seem to know what it is.
