Jamie’s View
01 May 2012 in Jamie’s View
Fun police drunk on over-regulation, Australian Financial Review
The Adelaide hills apple producing community recently hosted its annual harvest festival on the oval at Lenswood. It was a magic autumn Saturday and a substantial crowd enjoyed... »
21 March 2012 in Jamie’s View
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This year has been nominated the Australian "year of the farmer", a brilliantly timed moniker given the rapidly developing opportunities presented to our agricultural sector.
The unprecedented growth in Asia will resul... »
07 February 2012 in Jamie’s View
By Jamie Briggs, Australian Financial Review
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Rather than lecturing European governments over their debt crisis, our Prime Minister would be better advised to tend to her own backyard. After years of waste and m... »
30 January 2012 in Jamie’s View
By Jamie Briggs, The Sunday Mail
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I want Australia to have a car industry in the future. But it has to be an industry that is viable. That is - able to stand on its own two feet without needing a ... »
23 January 2012 in Jamie’s View
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Say China’s thirst for our minerals suddenly disappeared, will the Government start subsidising BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to continue its mining operations? I would think not.
Or has the Government pr... »
13 September 2011 in Jamie’s View
WHEN I was at school, one of my favourite films was Back to the Future in which Michael J. Fox's character, Marty McFly, uses Doc Emmett Brown's time machine to travel back to 1955. At present, some seem to wish to take our economy back to 1955. While this may be popular with some, it ignores Australia's 30-year march to economic prosperity.
The strength of the Australian dollar, caused by a combination of a once-in-a-generation mining boom and a weak US economy, is causing waves throug... »
21 July 2011 in Jamie’s View
Correspondents to The Land continually claim the Lower Lakes are estuarine with a natural state alternating between fresh and salt depending on river flows and tidal movements.
Your columnist and Myth and the Murray mouthpiece, Jennifer Mar... »
23 June 2011 in Jamie’s View
For all its flaws, there is one thing this Labor Government can be proud of – a cohesive ability to ignore the reality of its spending addiction.
I applaud every Labor Member of Parliament who has successfully stood in front of a camera and said with a straight face that Wayne Swan is a good economic manager.
It must be tough, because a close look at the Budget’s spending column clearly proves otherwise.
If you believe Labor, they have done all the... »
09 May 2011 in Jamie’s View
As we enter another budget season, we are again swamped by a wall of excuses from Treasurer Wayne Swan, excuses that are supposed to explain why his budget will be a dud, again.
Each year it’s the same. As budget night approaches, out come the excuses. It’s someone else’s fault. It’s the financial crisis. It’s a natural disaster. It’s a mining boom that won’t deliver like other mining booms.
Wayne Swan acts as if he is the only Treasurer to f... »
22 February 2011 in Jamie’s View
The series of natural disasters that have caused so much damage in Queensland are creating new medium and longer term challenges for the Australian economy.
However the Gillard Labor Government is unable to take the necessary action needed to stop the inflationary and multiplier effect its re-regulation of the labour market is bound to cause.
Unfortunately for all of us the Government can’t and won’t say no to its trade union masters.
In recent days further evi... »