12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
What a relief. Four independents seem to be able to identify and name what Australia urgently needs to avoid falling behind other countries. A price on carbon.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
Paul Hogan's legal advisers have claimed "a transcript of a meeting showed Hogan had relied on the advice of a leading 1980s QC and US attorneys, who found that his tax arrangements were legitimate".
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
If, as is now clear, by far the most expensive demand of rural parliamentarians is going to be for extensive high-speed broadband, then let it be done logically and fairly.
12:00AM | The Australian Financial Review
The Queensland government has proposed a new category of restricted land called "strategic cropping land", which bans mining or development. This could blight 4 per cent of Queensland, representing an area more than twice the size of Holland and including many areas likely to contain valuable mineral and energy resources.
02 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The Australian Bankers Association is wrong to question if "credit unions were really as safe as banks given they did not have to meet the minimum $50 million in tier one capital required of banks".
02 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Anna Bligh is a champion at closing down viable industries supporting hundreds of jobs and industries that would add enormously to production and prosperity.
02 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The Reserve Bank of Australia's assistant governor, Guy Debelle, nearly got around to describing one of the business regulator's two basic problems: rules and regulations inside the regulator's pale tend to drive the best and the brightest innovators outside the pale ("Banks should expect help in a crisis", September 1).
02 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
How can Alan Mitchell misread the Henry review so badly? ("Reform without too many tears", Economic briefing, August 30).
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
If Alan Mitchell's assertion ("Supping with the enemy", August 25) that many of Australia's farms are "undercapitalised, chronically unprofitable and too small to employ the latest technology and farming practices" is correct, then the questions to ask are why and if and to what extent government action should be taken to address such an outcome.
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
I notice global warming does not exist nowadays and the term has been replaced by "climate change" ("Stern to give MPs a hurry-up", August 31).
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
If unused leave is such a burden on business why isn't it just paid out in cash or time at the value it was earned at, not the value of when it is taken?
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
It seems that religion is getting in the way of rational thought ("Christians desert Labor in key seats", August 30).
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Julia Gillard points to the ALP's higher raw two-party preferred vote as one justification for it to be given an opportunity to form government.
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Chris Forman sent you a letter from afr.com
01 September 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Isn't it great that as the forces of the Coalition of the Willing finally pull out of Iraq, we leave behind a nation at peace with itself and the world.
