Archive for January 21st, 2009
The crisis in the Australian Tax Office continues
Posted by John, January 21st, 2009 - under Tax.
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The crisis in the Australian Tax Office continues. The ATO has a budget deficit of around $140 million. How can an organisation that can’t manage its own affairs run revenue collection for the nation? There are two main causes. The Labor Government’s so-called efficiency dividend of 3.25% has cut funding to the ATO by at […]
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John Passant to talk on the prospects for an Obama Presidency
Posted by John, January 21st, 2009 - under Middle East, Palestine, United States.
Tags: Capitalism, Economics, Environment, Global Warming
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For any Canberra reader, I am talking on Thursday 22 January from 6 pm at Socialist Alternative’s regular weekly branch meeting on the prospects for the Obama presidency. My article ‘Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ’ on this site forms the basis for that talk. It is in room G 007 of the Moran Building […]
Barack Obama is not Jesus Christ
Posted by John, January 21st, 2009 - under Imperialism, Middle East, Palestine, United States.
Tags: Capitalism, Economics, Global Warming
Comments: 2
Obama’s swearing in as President of the United States is historic. It seemingly marks the political end of neo-liberalism as an ideology, one that has collapsed in the face of the global economic crisis and the failure of the market. (But we need to be careful here since neoliberal keynesianism looks more like neoliberalism than […]