Tag Archives: priorities

Are the adults in charge yet?

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

Tony Abbott promised that the adults would take charge again in Canberra. But it’s hard to find anyone who thinks that’s happened. Yesterday the ABC published a piece from the usually even handed commentator David Llewellyn-Smith that sums things up … Continue reading →

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Great! Seasoned commentators get it!

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

Fantastic!! The Pope and the Productivity Commission have stirred two of Australia’s respected and seasoned political/economic commentators. I read much of what Alan Kohler and Paul Sheehan produce. Not always, but more often than not, I find their writings right … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis on inequality … an update

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

The Pope’s “missive” has caused quite some reaction. I enjoyed this informative post in the Wonkblog at the Washington Post. Pope Francis has a few thoughts about the global economy. We added these 13 charts. It’s an excellent recital of the … Continue reading →

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The demographic crunch is still coming

Posted on November 30, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

Last week the usually boring Australian Government Productivity Commission briefly made headlines. Immediately the vested interests came out finding everything wrong with the policy recommendations in the Commission’s report “An Ageing Australia: Preparing for the Future“: You can’t raise the … Continue reading →

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Inequality … the Pope weighs in …

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

The referendum in Switzerland I wrote about last week went down 65% to 35%. The Swiss decided that top salaries in a corporation should NOT be limited to 12 times bottom salaries. It probably failed because of the overreach of … Continue reading →

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Climate policy mandate?

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

One of the eternal frustrations of the way our democracy works is that at elections we get just one vote. We are somehow expected to synthesise down to one choice our opinions and decisions on many complex issues ranging from … Continue reading →

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The pain in Spain

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

The 2013 Spanish peak tourist season ended in September. And, as a consequence … … the number of registered unemployed in Spain went up by 87,000 in one month between September and October. Data published last Tuesday by the Ministry … Continue reading →

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Indians to Mars?

Posted on November 5, 2013 by Geoff O'Reilly

Today, India is launching a rocket to Mars. The Guardian newspaper has the story: The cyclone season is almost over, the planets are in alignment, the countdown has started. On Tuesday at 2.46pm local time, a rocket will blast off … Continue reading →

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