Tasfintalk

In depth comment and analysis on Tasmanian finance and economics issues

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Hydro praying for rain

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There was more than a hint of Donald Rumsfeld’s maxim of ‘known unknowns’ when new Chairman Grant Every-Burns spoke of challenges facing H...
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Tuesday, 16 December 2014

FT and the Economic Regulator

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The Government’s willingness to breach the spirit of national competition policy by its use of State resources to prop up Forestry Tasmani...
Saturday, 6 December 2014

A breach of competition policy?

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The Forestry Tasmania scrutiny hearing left no doubt that its survival depends on selling more native forest woodchips at higher prices. ...
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Sunday, 30 November 2014

FT: Will it make a profit?

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“Will it make a profit?” “Indeed it will....“was the unequivocal reply. FT’s District Forester was in no doubt when answering   an A...
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Thursday, 13 November 2014

Why Bob Gordon had to go?

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The seemingly pointless inquiry investigating the sale of the Triabunna mill to Graeme Wood and Jan Cameron in July 2011 rather than to Ro...
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Sunday, 2 November 2014

Forestry Tasmania: Nothing has changed

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The first thing that strikes when leafing through Forestry Tasmania’s (FT’s) Annual Report for 2013/14 is that the Directors have hardened...
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Thursday, 16 October 2014

Australia’s addiction to private debt

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Macrobusiness.com have just posted a crackerjack article on the misreading of the Australian government budget emergency  and the errant p...
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A public policy researcher and writer with a special interest in Tasmanian finance and economics issues. Have worked as an economist, and as an accountant in public practice.
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