Andrew's Blog
When a government introduces two big new taxes that actually make the budget $10 billion worse off you know there is something seriously amiss.
This is what the Gillard government has somehow managed to do with its carbon tax and mining tax. This takes a very special kind of economic manage... (13-Dec)
Andrew's Blog
The contrast between the open and fierce political debate in the United States about raising the federal debt limit and the way the Gillard government has buried it here could not be starker.
On any given day you can find dozens of articles in American newspapers dedicated to the debt ceili... (20-Jun)
Andrew's Blog
The IMF has unwittingly exposed the inconvenient truth for Labor - the Gillard/Swan government is wasting this mining boom.
The IMF has urged the Gillard government to put some mining boom money aside for a rainy day – to save more of the proceeds to help cover the costs of the ageing population.
... (29-Apr)
Andrew's Blog
Through the simple stroke of a pen Julia Gillard could probably achieve more to reduce global CO2 emissions than she ever will through the imposition of her job-destroying carbon tax.
It is a little known fact that Australian uranium exports help drive clean energy generation ab... (19-Apr)