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30 January 2012 in Blog
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 Blog
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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... »
21 July 2011 in Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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 Blog
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... »
25 January 2011 in Blog
This year Australia Day will be particularly poignant as thousands of our fellow Australians struggle to recover from a series of natural disasters.
A series of disasters that have reminded us of Dorothy Mackellar’s famous passage in the poem ‘My Country’ of her love ‘of a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains’.
The floods and fires that have swept our country have caused many communities significant pain. W... »
09 November 2010 in Blog
Click here to view my blog on the Liberal Party of Australia website regarding Labor's treatment of communities. "Labor isn’t serious about addressing the severe problems arising from its softening of the stringent border protection measures introduced by the former Coalition Government.” Read more »
22 October 2010 in Blog
Labor detention centres coming to a town near you
The last thing Adelaide Hills residents would have expected to hear this week was that their community would be home to Labor’s newest detention centre.
The ambush announcement by the Prime Minister on Monday to turn the defence housing site at Inverbrackie near Woodside in South Australia into a detention centre has caused enormous concern amongst local residents.
Now, I know there are people out there who consider the... »
08 October 2010 in Blog
Give me my money back
If the worst of the global financial crisis is behind us and Wayne Swan’s bank deposit guarantee no longer exists, why are many Australians still fighting with investment firms over frozen funds which have been locked away for almost two years?
The government’s bank deposit guarantee, introduced at the height of the financial crisis, was meant to stabilise financial markets and restore the flow of credit. It covered all deposits of banks but excluded inve... »