Labor’s energy market meddling a backward step – The Australian
Labor’s new energy regime represents an economic revolution as audacious as its attempt to nationalise Australia’s banking system 75 years ago.
WA Labor’s claims about State’s GST just an election scare – The West Australian
Scottish king Robert the Bruce is thought to have used the phrase “if at first you don’t succeed try, try and try again”. It seems Premier Mark McGowan and Federal Labor’s shadow assistant minister for WA, Patrick Gorman, have taken inspiration from this historic battle cry, as they conspire to trick West Australians into believing…
Best GST fix is to expand the pool – The Australian Financial Review
Revenue share Instead of fixating on Western Australia, Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas should focus on the economic policy reforms needed to reverse the decline in the GST to GDP ratio. Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas claims the current system for dividing GST revenues between the states and territories ‘‘isn’t just unfair’’ but is‘‘far worse’’ than first…
Fair go for child sex victims – The West Australian
Amid news of the storming of the United States Capitol in Washington DC and an even more contagious strain of COVID-19 forcing parts of Australia back into lockdowns behind closed borders, you could be forgiven for missing the positive stories of the new year. Read the full article here >
The nation is putting untrustworthy Rio Tinto on notice – The Australian Financial Review
Juukan Gorge inquiry – It’s harder to make the case for more efficient regulation of the resources sector after the miner so recklessly destroyed public trust. When Reconciliation Australia endorsed RioTinto’s second Reconciliation Action Plan in 2016, few would have imagined that just four years later the miner would be responsible for the destruction of…
Act now on abuse redress – The West Australian
Some issues deserve to be above politics and faith. None is more worthy than securing redress for the many survivors of institutional child sexual abuse who have had their lives stolen.Without public fanfare and against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, Federal parliamentarians have been working to secure these survivors and their families more timely…
Blaming Canberra is ignoring reality – The West Australian
Readers of this paper may have felt sympathy and concern for the cycling catastrophes of Labor’s Federal member for Perth, Patrick Gorman, (Ring your bell if you think we need more cash from Feds, Opinion, 2/3). But sympathy for his accident shouldn’t translate to believability for his argument. Read the full article here >