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This is nuts! What we should be doing is building a network that is capable of meeting our demands today and what we can see, reasonably foresee for a reasonable period in the future Turnbull also advises anyone who believes that such a future will require the sort of capacity fibre optic systems provide, to get [...]  Ben Eltham writes Unfortunately, in 2011 in Australia, industry lobby groups have realised that reform can be fought and defeated in the media.The template, of course, was the mining industry’s campaign against the Mining Super Profits Tax, a hugely successful campaign that swung so many hearts and minds against the Rudd government that some think it [...] The government is doing the opposite, distorting energy markets and shielding decisions on use from rising prices. Given the doubts about government’s ability to manage an emissions scheme, here’s a simpler, more transparent solution. Scrap all the de facto subsidies for fossil fuels, slash the budget deficit by $12 billion a year and watch the [...] How does one get to be one of five most admired chief executive officers? In Mr Ian Smith’s case you head up a successful media campaign that stops government plans to impose an extra tax on the mining industry. Ian is now the chief executive officer of a goldmining company. The bald faced hypocrisy of the [...] Remember when the west was sitting on a high moral horse and criticising mainland China for its repressive internet policy? How Google suddenly accommodated China’s political censorship? Well the free internet is dead in the west as well. Attacks shut down WikiLeaks. Sadly the so-called 4th estate seems to have lost the plot when it comes to [...] Coles Myer are one of the giants in the retail market space so using their muscle to strong arm the government is hardly surprising but it does raise a serious question. How long before taxes become something only the poor end up paying? Let’s look at this idea. Myer says they are losing sales to online [...] Yeah. The garden state has ripped out the growing green weeds and decided to plant fresh roses. As someone a couple of hundred klicks north of the border I am somewhat bemused by the outcome, especially given the good result for the ALP in Victoria last federal election. I wont miss Brumby, he was very [...] Rodney Tiffen writes in the SMH on the Murdoch press… In Australia, News Ltd titles account for about two-thirds of daily newspaper circulation, far higher than any proprietor enjoys in any other established democracy. Whatever the company’s virtues, such domination is not healthy for democracy or for the development of professional excellence and media diversity. Increasingly, [...] Laura Tingle’s article on the problem of News Corp for Gillard’s government in her Friday column of the AFR has provoked a fair bit of debate over at LP. At the heart of the problem lies two seriously conflicting notions. On one hand, the idea of any government “doing” anything about the so-called free press immediately [...] Look I was happy ignoring the Oz. Its blatant campaigning for a change of government that would be more aligned with the views of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, was just too obvious to take seriously but unfortunately a significant proportion of Australians actually think the agenda of the Oz is something other than neo-conservative right [...] |
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