Personal Reflections

Just following up on my discussion ( Credential creep, the economics of education, with a dash of contract breaking or (alternatively) retro...

Sometimes, you have to be careful in what you ask for. In the run-up to the Federal election, the bigger Australian metro universities suppo...

I haven’t commented on the Eastman case. I worked with David for several years, knew him for longer. The issue in the Martin Inquiry was not...

Soon after starting work in the Commonwealth Public Service I found myself in the Commonwealth Treasury. While I had completed a major in ec...

Last year, my main writing for publication outside my weekly newspaper column and the blogs were two chapters, one a long one, in a book to ...

Just when the Australian Government felt that things couldn’t get any worse, it appears that a rise in nickel prices has replenished Mr Pal...

Budget reporting goes on and on while I try to work my way through it all. There is something extremely nasty about the responses running ju...

One of the immediate underlying issues in the Australian Government’s budget was well captured by some of the small business commentary I he...

Today I feel like a break from more serious stuff. Well, not too serious anyway. One of the issues at present in Australia is whether or n...

The latest public opinion polls ( here , here ) suggest that the Abbott Government is in fiendish trouble. From Labour’s perspective, this i...

This morning I started with my normal news round-up. The increasing newspaper restrictions on public unpaid access have really started to hu...

I am working on my Australian budget analysis and hope to bring it up at the weekend. Much of it has been covered in the commentary, but I a...