Andrew's Blog
Governments typically try and ignore the Opposition; pretend they don’t exist, unless they really have to.
Yet what we are seeing from the Gillard government is just an obsession with the Coalition and what it says and does. It’s truly bizarre.
As economist Judith Sloan pondered: is it reall... (21-Mar)
Andrew's Blog
When I was running the National Farmers’ Federation in the 1980’s, I was struck by the sheer power of movements in the exchange rate on farmers’ revenues and costs.
Back then we might have been campaigning on some issue affecting revenues, such as new taxation measures or new costs on transport, fu... (13-Mar)
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)