Melissa Sweet | Federal govt urged to withdraw all support for private health insurance
In this article, Melissa Sweet promotes John Menadue and Ian McAuley’s discussion paper on private health insurance subsidies in Australia. With the government debating whether to introduce means testing on private health insurance, the new...
Ben Eltham | How Gillard Squibbed On Gambling Reform
The public might support pokies reform but powerful vested interests do not. And if folding on the Wilkie deal didn’t look bad enough, Craig Thomson threw in some extra sleaze, writes Ben Eltham in...
Ben Eltham | Uncertain times for the economy and your super
The tides of global macro-economics may finally be aligning against Australia, writes Ben Eltham in ABC’s The Drum online. Superannuation was meant to be a powerful savings tool for working Australians, who would otherwise...
Ben Spies-Butcher | Numbers don’t back business lobbying
Ben Spies-Butcher writes in The Sydney Morning Herald about the widening gap in wages. Two years since the changes to the IR legislation, the business lobby has been vocal in their criticisms and claims...
Eva Cox | ‘Call Me Whatever The Hell You Want’
Feminism, not religion, is at the heart of controversy about Melinda Tankard Reist. Who decides who gets to use the f-word, asks Eva Cox in New Matilda Melinda Tankard Reist last week threatened legal...
Ian McAuley | What Credit Ratings Don’t Tell Us
Bill Shorten might be using the downgrading of European economies as an opportunity to crow about Australia’s prosperity – but being rich and having a sound economy are not the same thing, writes Ian...
Miriam Lyons | ABC1 The Drum
On ABC’s The Drum, Miriam Lyons shines her policy light on certain highly contentious issues, such as the oz car industry subsidies, pokies reform, huge bank job cuts planned while profits soar, the controversial...
Ben Eltham | Why We Love The Car Industry
Australian politicians have always been revheads when it comes to manufacturing policy, no matter how expensive it is. Ben Eltham on Kim Carr’s latest effort to keep us making cars. We Australians love our...
Eva Cox | More to life and Labor policies than just getting a job
CPD Fellow Eva Cox, in Crikey, questions the ALP’s recent efforts to halt increases in the Newstart allowance. The government is said to believe that the low payments will act as an incentive to...
Ben Eltham | Common Sense is in the Eye of the Beholder
It’s the start of another new year and another new Ben Eltham article. First up Ben Eltham takes a close look at the use of the word ‘common sense’ to justify certain political agendas....