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Will the West never learn? 27 Aug 2013 | 03:01 pm
The latest horrific casualties in Syria, suspected of being the result of a chemical weapons attack, have been the occasion for a new round of demands for Western intervention in the country, writes L...
The Minerals Resource Rent Tax and Labor’s decline 27 Aug 2013 | 12:55 pm
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 ...
Australia’s mining barons stole the boom 26 Aug 2013 | 03:15 pm
The resources boom has been the most spectacular of its kind in 150 years, surpassed only by the gold rush of the 1850s. It has created enormous fortunes in the hands of a few, impoverished some and l...
How did politics get this low? 25 Aug 2013 | 12:56 pm
The end of his story? When the USSR collapsed more than 20 years ago, right wing academic Francis Fukuyama wrote a notorious article announcing “the end of history”. What he meant was that all the gr...
Saturday’s socialist speak out 24 Aug 2013 | 05:36 am
Chelsea Manning is a hero. She’s a hero because she revealed the truth about US war crimes. She’s a hero because now she is embarking on her personal journey, despite being jailed for 35 years for let...
Senseless killings 22 Aug 2013 | 03:36 pm
The gunning down of Chris Lane has got me thinking about senseless killings. The one million dead in Iraq comes to mind. The thousands of dead women and children of Afghanistan come into my view. O...
Voting for Labor as the lesser evil 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 am
A few days ago Andrew Leigh, my almost local member in Canberra, warned in the Canberra Times that an Abbott government would get rid of more public servants than Labor. This is my response. John In...
Franking credits and paid parental leave 21 Aug 2013 | 05:35 pm
Franking credits. An Australian company makes a $100 profit. It is taxed at 30% so its after tax profit is $70. It pays the $70 to you as a dividend called ‘fully franked’ (ie they have paid tax at 30...
Labor paves the way for Tony Abbott as Prime Minister 21 Aug 2013 | 04:02 pm
When the bosses say jump, Tony Abbott asks “How high?” His address to the New South Wales Business Chamber on 19 August gave a taste of things to come under a Coalition government: “You’ve asked for l...
The West Papua freedom flotilla 20 Aug 2013 | 12:49 pm
Just two hundred kilometres to Australia’s north lies West Papua, part of Indonesia. In 1969, after 6 years of Indonesian brutality, in an act of Free Choice – it wasn’t – West Papua joined Indonesi...
