From uranium to gay marriage: Labor’s stampede to the right continues
I had the pleasure of listening to a press conference with Julia Gillard today. She started off by arguing that the party conference, to be held in Sydney in early December, should overturn the...
View ArticleThe Minerals Resource Rent Tax: Labor and the continuity of change
I have just posted this very very rough first draft on SSRN. The link gets you to a page where you can download the paper. In the article I look at the recent history of proposals to tax resource...
View ArticleThe Minerals Resource Rent Tax – the Australian Labor Party and the...
In this article I look at the recent history of proposals to tax resource rents in Australia, from Australia’s Future Tax System Report (the ‘Henry Tax Review’) through to the proposed Resource Super...
View ArticleFrom the Labor Party to the Australian version of the US Democrats?
The push is on to break the link between unions and the Australian Labor Party. On Sunday morning deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, told Sky News’s Australian Agenda that she supported removing the...
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Refugees: a comradely letter to left-wing Labor Party members and supporters
Australian Labor Party federal parliamentarians Melissa Parke and Anna Burke moved in caucus on Tuesday to end the Party’s support for offshore processing of refugees. The motion said that the party...
View ArticleThe changing nature of the Labor Party viewed through the prism of the mining...
This is a link to my pre-publication manuscript on the Minerals Resource Rent Tax and the changing nature of the Labor Party. You can download access to the article from the UoW website that is that...
View ArticleThe nature of the Labor Party
I have written about the Australian Labor Party and its changing nature viewed through the Minerals Resource Rent Tax disaster. I argue basically that it is moving from a capitalist workers’ party to...
View ArticleIs Tony Abbott Captain Hook or Captain Crook?
It says much about Australian politics that an Australian Prime Minister can refuse to confirm what appears on the latest reports from the Indonesians and the UN to be the obvious – that his...
View ArticleIs former ALP A.C.T Chief Minister Jon Stanhope about to jump from Labor’s...
Former Labor Party Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope has an article in a local Canberra weekly newspaper, City News, condemning Labor for voting for the Border Force Act. In the...
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Prime Ministerial deck chairs in Australia – what the hell is going on?
In the last five years the Prime Ministership in Australia has changed once because of an election and 3 times because the Party has replaced the leader. It is an interesting time line. 2010 Rudd to...
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And what if Labor wins?
It is possible Labor could win the 2 July election. These are words I never thought I’d write. A few months ago Labor were dead in the water. Now they have a chance. The media will put the swing to...
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