tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post3375127226259150492..comments2024-02-11T19:28:27.997+11:00Comments on Personal Reflections: Wallabies & tie colours. Do Australia's pollies need a good spank?Jim Belshawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-31644551797219053552013-06-18T06:57:13.934+10:002013-06-18T06:57:13.934+10:00Hi LE aka Count Skogg! I wondered if I was being t...Hi LE aka Count Skogg! I wondered if I was being too jaundiced?<br /><br />Hi DG. For discussion, not argument.<br /><br />The IR policy received very mixed reviews. I couldn't work out properly whether or not it was another small target example or a very clever manipulation of what was. I haven't worked my way through the detail to develop a fully formed view. But I would agree that we need more labor market flexibility. The devil here lies in the detail.<br /><br />On the NBN, I disagreed with some of the elements in Mr Turnbull's formulation, while stop the boats is not a workable policy! On carbon pricing, I'm inclined to think that the better option (I am not convinced by the Coalition's direct action agenda) would be to leave it in place, but modify.<br /><br />No doubt we will learn more as time proceeds, but I have argued that Canberra is presently something of a policy free zone. Looking at the debate around the budget, I have a strong impression of policy convergence and indeed lock-in a la NDIS.<br /><br />There are lots of things I don't know about coalition policy including whether they have a working regional development policy and their real attitudes to fixing the now creaking and overloaded Federal system. Jim Belshawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10075614280789984767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-28778679456082950162013-06-18T01:13:47.787+10:002013-06-18T01:13:47.787+10:00I don't think there is any doubt where the Coa...I don't think there is any doubt where the Coalition would like to take the country; it wants to wind back some of the daft, lunatic and ruinous policies of the Rudd / Gillard administrations ... ill-conceived policies that seek to destroy the reformist achievements of the Hawke / Keating / Howard years (e.g. the re-regulation of the labour market). Many of these policies had minimal operational content (e.g. the NBN, asylum seekers) or cannot possibly be fully funded or delivered for years hence (e.g. the NDIS - although the Coalition has been wedged on this). The Coalition wants to give the country half a chance by abandoning an idiotic carbon price that bears no relation to that prevailing in the EU with which we are supposed to be linked in 2015 when we are meant to morph into an ETS. Much of this may be difficult to unscramble, but I'd say it's a pretty clear agenda.<br /><br />DG Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-90198673820538571662013-06-17T23:20:26.444+10:002013-06-17T23:20:26.444+10:00That comment was made using my husband's Gmail...That comment was made using my husband's Gmail account up there...I thought you might wonder who "Count Skogg" was...<br /><br />Anyway, yes, they all need a good spanking, and no it's not too much to ask that they tell us what they hope for this country.Legal Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01096038577529334966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24338064.post-39630584438574569782013-06-17T23:18:16.650+10:002013-06-17T23:18:16.650+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Count Skogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13224322266770065319noreply@blogger.com