The Dumb And Dumber Of Higher Ed Policy
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis’s comments in The Saturday Age provide a disturbing…More
Tagged: budget 2014
Opposition Continues To Grow To $7 Medicare Co-Payment
Thousands of Australians took to the streets last weekend to demonstrate against health spending cuts…More
The Budget Measure That Labor Should Back
One of the few economically responsible measures in the Commonwealth Budget is the proposal to…More
Education Not Always A Path Out of Poverty
In the latest budget, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey have told people like me to…More
Abbott's Lost Some Skin, But It's Far From Terminal
How much political damage has the Abbott government sustained from its 2014 budget? The short…More
Budget Misreads The Mood On Social Welfare
Do Australians still care about our social safety net? About fairness? About that old-fashioned notion,…More
The Pension-Work Absurdity
Large numbers of employees regard their work as unfulfilling and are eager to retire. Those…More
How To End The Deficit Without Screwing The Poor
Mark Twain said that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated. So, too, for New…More
Abbott Delivers A Billionaires' Bonus
To paraphrase Winston Churchill — never in the field of budget conflict has so much been…More
Hockey Ramps Up Fear Around Disability Support
Perhaps this is all a dark satire, I thought hopefully as Joe Hockey delivered last…More