Monday, 24 May 2021

Native forest logging is not sustainable

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  WHETHER or not we have a native forest industry and on what scale won’t be determined by economic sustainability. Tassie’s AFL side will...
Monday, 17 May 2021

Federal government borrowings are the nation's equity

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  BUDGETS are a concoction of economics and politics with the mix depending on the electoral cycle. The latest federal budget appears to h...
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Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Election plans avoid the fundamental issues

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  THE Liberals swept to power in March 2014 with a proposal to solve Tasmania’s problems. Someone in the party had discovered the wizardry o...
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Thursday, 19 November 2020

Budget denialism

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  WHEN Premier Gutwein undertakes not to sugar-coat the message, you can guarantee that’s what he will do. Introducing the 2020-2021 Tasmani...
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Thursday, 5 November 2020

Mending payroll tax

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  Tasmania’s state budget next week is a wake-up call that our tax system won’t deliver the revenue we need. Even before COVID-19 the budg...
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Thursday, 29 October 2020

Hydro's shrinking balance sheet

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  HYDRO Tasmania’s recently released 2019-2020 annual report revealed a significant write-down of generation assets due to reductions in fut...
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Thursday, 8 October 2020

Downturn demands bigger spend

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  The penny has finally dropped that increased public debt is not a burden, but spending in this year’s Federal Budget should have been bett...