Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Tasmania's fiscal problems laid bare

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  THE chickens came home to roost last week with the latest five yearly  report  by Treasury into the state government’s fiscal sustainabili...
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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