Debt

Monetary Policy 

08/07/83 • Unknown

• Debt adds to the sum of human wellbeing, benefit both borrowers and lenders.
• Some governments borrow not to invest but to increase their life style.

Another Premiers' Conference

Politics  Budget  Taxation 

15/07/83 • Unknown

• Premiers can make a lot of political trouble for a Prime Minister especially those that are from the same party.
• The Prime Minister has become a convenient whipping boy for state politicians that complain about Federal taxes while saying that the Federal Government's stinginess is not helping with their state's expenditures.

The Long Term

Politics  Economics 

22/07/83 • Unknown

• A nation whose economy stagnates will become hard to govern.
• Poor growth also compounds political problems that are associated.

Where will the ideas come from?

Politics 

29/07/83 • Unknown

• Influential thinking is now done outside of universities in independent research foundations.
• Each successful foundation has gradually won the support of politicians, media and the community-at-large.
• The ideas that sustain a free society are more likely to come from organisations that do not have a vested interest.

Choosing the right index

Economics  Industrial Relations 

05/08/83 • Unknown

• For indexing wages, the right index must be chosen. Lest we get more unemployment.
• If the CPI is used to index wages, then we should exclude the effects in terms of trade, taxes and devaluation from it.

A great trading nation

Trade  Economics 

12/08/83 • Unknown

• Countries with small economies must trade with foreigners while citizens of large economies have a range of specialist skills that enable them to trade with each other.
• Australia's trade is getting worse over the years.

The Budget

Politics  Budget  Taxation 

19/08/83 • Unknown

• A good budget speech is one that discloses various interests at the first reading.
• Liberals preach free enterprise but practice socialism.
• Families should not be taxed additionally to provide free tertiary education where a student loan would suffice.

Trade Policy Transparency

Protectionism  Trade 

26/08/83 • Unknown

• Tariffs cause job losses and is a tax which few citizens are aware of due to lack of experiences in price comparisons.

To Doug Everingham

Politics 

02/09/83 • Unknown

• Lack of agreed upon lexicon makes political debate difficult.
• An economic stagnant society is an intolerant one.
• Economic freedom is intertwined with freedom of the human spirit.

Interest Rates will fall by 2%

Interest Rates 

09/09/83 • Unknown

• Overseas influences coupled with a need to fund the public deficit and an uncertainty about future inflation caused a small dip and a raise in interest rates.

Drought Aid

Subsidies 

16/09/83 • Unknown

• Farmers that know how to use the rules and that are in the right position, can benefit from government aid at the expense of the taxpayer and other farmers.
• Subsidies creates weakness.

Dumping

Trade  Competition 

23/09/83 • Unknown

• Goods are said to be dumped when they are imported and sold in Australia below current price levels.
• Predatory dumping should not be confused with price discrimination.

Peacock's Deakin Lecture

Politics  Cronyism 

30/09/83 • Unknown

• Without political leadership, vested interests will control the Liberal party.
• The Deakin lecture lacks credibility as it did not confront the tough choices present.

Who were the Monetarists?

Monetary Policy 

07/10/83 • Unknown

• Tight monetary controls may not work anymore due to rational cynicism
• Neither governments nor central banks are inclined to adopt monetarism

Sex Discrimination

Law 

14/10/83 • Unknown

• Society discriminates and would not function without doing so.
• Legislation fails to distinguish between choice from prejudice
• It is not possible to stop rational discrimination by passing laws.
• There is an economic cost to discrimination and it is better to let the market dictate.

The Liberal Federal Movement

Politics  Leadership 

21/10/83 • Unknown

• A country's future is dependent on the goals that are chosen by Politicians
• To give guarantee for future performance by a politician is like an alcoholic guaranteeing his or her sobriety.
• To govern effectively one needs a long-term strategy.

Statutory Marketing Authorities

Protectionism  Economics  Trade 

28/10/83 • Unknown

• An industry that depends on world markets cannot avoid change. By delaying just long enough, many who have neither learnt to swim or moved to a higher ground will drown.

Their Own Worst Enemies

Economics 

04/11/83 • Unknown

• The capitalist economy has a better track record than the socialist economy and so there is no need to apologise for it.

Airline Deregulation (11/11/83)

Regulation  Subsidies 

11/11/83 • Unknown

• Deregulation has enabled sharp reductions in the level of subsidies.
• The airline industry is no worse off while the consumer and taxpayer is better off.

Westpac to the Martin Committee

Cronyism  Regulation  Competition 

18/11/83 • Unknown

• Westpac is caught between asking for continuation of protection from competition but is fearful that the same protection is extended to others.
• Labour ought to favour deregulation such as interest rates control as it makes the market more efficient.

Statutory Marketing Authorities

Cronyism  Competition 

25/11/83 • Unknown

• The question most asked is whether statutory marketing authorities are adequately accountable to the various state governments, but the more important question is whether they are competent to market rural Australian produce.
• Only competition will make marketing authorities efficient.

The TPC & the IATA Agreement

Monopoly  Industrial Relations 

02/12/83 • Unknown

• The problem with the trade practices commission is that the most serious monopolies are out of its reach.
• The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is a price maintenance agreement that allows for cabin crew to share in the monopoly margins through their union.

Sir John Kerr

Politics 

09/12/83 • Unknown

• Vilification of Sir John Kerr is irrational as he did the best he could and should be judged with more objectivity.

Democracy & Property Rights

Individual Rights  Law  Politics 

16/12/83 • Unknown

• Governments when they revoke property rights change the value of whatever underlying property the rights were attached to.
• The right to trade one's efforts is as important as a right to free speech and is even more relevant in everyday life.
• Many politicians don't understand the principles that they violate and the harm the arises.

Chaney on resource industries

Taxation 

23/12/83 • Unknown

• A resource rental tax is arbitrary as measuring it is impossible.

Facing 1984

Economics 

30/12/83 • Unknown

• Productivity may be improved by effort, improved practices or increased capital per worker
• Our productivity gains are less than other countries and is not sustainable.

Large Colour TV Sets

Protectionism  Competition  Cronyism 

06/01/84 • Unknown

• The Australian TV production industry taxes buyers and have developed into an uncompetitive assembler of foreign produced parts.

The Eternal Nanny

Regulations  Individual Rights 

13/01/84 • Unknown

• Society gravitates towards the least regulated activities
• Even our bodies have become the property of the state.
• Governments offer us a security blanket that is useless and prevents us from developing survival skills.

Entrepreneurs

Economics  Regulation  Cronyism  Business 

20/01/84 • Unknown

• Entrepreneurs are first forwards looking decision makers, but often become crony business managers once estabilished.

Thomas Sowell & Walter Williams

Individual Rights  Economics 

27/01/84 • Unknown

• Sowell & Williams argue that racism, discrimination & poverty are minimised where markets are the freest and are worsened by government intervention.
• Affirmative action has created an action not to hire groups.
• Sowell has insisted that he has faith not in the market but rather the evidence about the market.

Who's a liberal?

Individual Rights  Law 

02/01/84 • Unknown

• Traditional young liberal concern for human rights, environment and discrimination is in good hands.
• The spread of income level is narrowest in societies which are the freest and the disadvantaged the least oppressed where privilege is not maintained by law.

Taxes and Economic Growth

Taxation  Economics 

10/02/84 • Unknown

• High taxes are hostile to economic growth and hence to higher living standards.
• Link between high taxes and lower productivity, lower private consumption and lower life expectancies.

Measuring Education

Education 

17/02/84 • Unknown

• Both labour and liberal party members send their children to private schools due to teachers moving to private schools. Government schools perform the worst compared to catholic and private schools.

Hawke On Structural Adjustment

Protectionism  Politics 

24/02/84 • Unknown

• There's a trade-off between today's protected industries and tomorrow's living standards.
• Mr Hawke, "we need a longer-range vision".

Uncooperative Federalism

Competition  Politics 

02/03/84 • Unknown

• States that want more powers should be prepared to finance themselves.
• Competition between states to offer the lowest taxes or the best services is a good thing.

The Next Deficit

Politics  Fiscal Policy 

09/03/84 • Unknown

• With each succeeding deficit, either interest rates or lost opportunities will be higher.
• Easier for politicians to increase government spending rather than to decrease it.

Greiner's Small Business Policy

Regulation  Industrial Relations 

16/03/84 • Unknown

• The policy allows for an individual to negotiate employment conditions above the minimum requirements.
• Allows for the NSW industry to gain a competitive edge over other states and foreign imports.

The W.A. Sheep Meat Industry

Protectionism  Monopoly 

23/03/84 • Unknown

• The Lamb Board shows the consequence of instituting a government-controlled monopoly versus a free market.
• Both consumer and producers have been prejudiced.

Aboriginal Land Rights

Property Rights  Politics 

30/03/84 • Unknown

• Australian governments have granted special rights to various classes of peoples.
• The nature of lands right in the NT has caused uncertainty and the government is probably harder to deal with than Indigenous Australians.

The Problem with Big Government

Regulation  Politics 

06/06/84 • Unknown

• Smaller government where the people have more discretion.
• The problem with regulations is the enforcement and the more rules the less productive a society will be.
• Government doesn't know the wants of the people and the market is better place to punish any "rule-breakers"

Tax No 1

Taxation 

13/04/84 • Unknown

• The enforcement of taxation is inefficient and has become a vehicle for political favours.
• Consumption and capital gains taxes will fill the void if there is a reduction in personal income taxes.

Tax No 2

Taxation 

20/04/84 • Unknown

• A progressive tax should be a combination of company, income & sales taxes.
• Majority of revenue is coming from income taxes, a tax threshold should be allowed for smaller incomes.
• Too much reliance on any one category causes the marginal revenue to drop as there will be less persons or companies to tax.

Tax No 3

Taxation 

27/04/84 • Unknown

• A new capital gains tax where it taxes only real gains and allowing real losses would improve equity and economic neutrality but would be extremely difficult to administer
• An improvement would be to have a broad-based consumption tax through taxation of an approximation of real capital gains and removing special privileges from the income tax act

Of Bread and Eggs

Regulation  Business 

11/05/84 • Unknown

• Regulation governing the production of eggs & bread in QLD is destroying the profitability of both products.

Exporters Pay for Tariffs

Protectionism  Trade 

18/05/84 • Unknown

• Tariffs raise prices in the import competing industries over and above the extent that the wages rise for the rest of the economy.
• Protectionism impoverishes exporters rather than penalising foreign competitors.

Labour's style

Politics  Industrial Relations  Economics  Business 

25/05/84 • Unknown

• Bob Hawke ceded authority to those whom should not have authority.
• He expected big business to follow the government's lead on when and where to invest.
• His government is a corporatist consensus of government, big capital and big union.

The Opposition Industrial Relations Policy

Industrial Relations  Business 

01/06/84 • Unknown

• Few unionists understand that they are the prime cause of unemployment.
• An opportunity should be given to both employees/employers to be able to opt out of an award.

Changing Australia

Collectivism 

08/06/84 • Unknown

• Collectivism preference installed in the Australian Christian Church with a removal of personal moral responsibility.
• Governments should not be imposing their will on the distribution of wealth and getting the Church involved.

The Grass Roots Against Deficits

Politics  Budget 

15/06/84 • Unknown

• State Premiers demand increased Federal grants but called for smaller government & lower taxes
• In the US, grass roots opinion is going towards the direction of limiting the growth of government and to impose a budget balance.

Coastal Shipping

Protectionism  Trade 

22/06/84 • Unknown

• Protection of the Shipping & Steel Industries have knock on effects on other industries.
• A government decision to protect an industry destroys another/others.

Occam's Razor

Taxation  Subsidies  Politics  Economics 

29/06/84 • Unknown

• It is remarkable that socialists think that the free world's financial system to blame for third world poverty.
• There is no obligation for a liberal society to tax itself to subsidise conversation & peace movements.

Early Retirement from the Public Service

Subsidies  Welfare  Politics 

06/07/84 • Unknown

• Basic economics where subsidies create more demand.
• Abuse of provision of medical certificates for civil servants who retire on medical grounds.

Handling the Vested Interests - The Dries

Politics 

13/07/84 • Unknown

• Governments that are strong enough to deal with powerful vested interests are themselves dangerous.
• Politicians are followers; people don't like those that prejudice the community interest.
• Processes ought to be as transparent as possible.

Means Tests

Taxation  Welfare 

20/07/84 • Unknown

• 3 positions for welfare funded by tax levels
• A pension reduces an incentive to save; high taxes reduced capacity to save
• Irresponsible to discuss universal welfare before eliminating the budget deficit

Productivity & Living Standard

Economics 

03/08/84 • Unknown

• Australian productivity has not kept up with living standards from 1969 in a 13-year period.
• Consumption has outstripped production; investment per head has declined.

International Comparisons

Economics 

10/08/84 • Unknown

• Comparison of Australia's economic performance with other nations
• Slower growth rate compared to the UK (Study of a group of developed nations)
• Even with our resources (Aus. & NZ), our living standards have fallen behind resource poor countries of Western Europe
• With our lower economic performance, there might be a labour and skill migration of Australian to other countries.

Building Industry Superannuation

Superannuation  Industrial Relations 

17/08/84 • Unknown

• Inelastic demand in the construction industry; ability to pass on increased costs to others.
• Union Superannuation is a tax on union members as they get a percentage of their members contributions.
• The revenue will give them the ability to further industrial or political action and further their careers.

Of Paddington Bear and Medicare

Regulation  Law 

24/08/84 • Unknown

• Regulation as a means of control
• Uneven enforcement
• Confusing legislation, that is, it is hard to adhere to the regulations.

Colour TV

Protectionism  Regulation 

02/09/84 • Unknown

• Import quotas for Colour TVs; prices should be allowed to signal the levels of supply and demand
• Quantitative restrictions (QR) are licences to print money

John Stone and all that

Competition  Trade 

07/09/84 • Unknown

• Review of John Stone's lecture.
• Weakening of Australia to face the world market.
• Government gains monopoly of information.

Dept of Trade's export strategy

Protectionism 

14/09/84 • Unknown

• Argument against protectionism

Grain Handling

Protectionism  Trade  Regulation 

21/09/84 • Unknown

• Wheat board (Trade barriers).
• Farmer are unable to price differentiate between higher quality of wheel produced (price takers not setters).
• Cost of over regulation where both some producers and consumers are the biggest losers.

Health Care 3: Medicare

Monopoly  Regulation  Competition 

28/09/84 • Unknown

• Medical fraud by doctors in a statutory monopoly
• Firing a doctor removes his/her service from the community
• The best is no Medicare; the market decides
• * But what about a naturally formed cartel?

Youth Employment

Industrial Relations  Business 

05/10/84 • Unknown

• Employers will choose employees that can provide the most for each dollar spent on them.
• Sen Chaney was concerned about income inequality and alienation.

Japan's Ministry (MITI)

Economics  Business  Industrial Relations 

12/10/84 • Unknown

• Japanese Government assisted in economic growth by restraining itself from interfering with the economy.
• Japan's industrial policies are the best because the government interference is the least.

Rich Land, Poor Land

Economics 

19/10/84 • Unknown

• Those that followed economic wisdom the closest increased their people's standard of living the most. (Ghana v Taiwan)

MTIA, Wages & Protection

Industrial Relations 

26/10/84 • Unknown

• MTIA has been significantly responsible for the 1981 wage hike which has caused the high wages that they are complaining about.
• No monopoly is prefect. If the price of any commodity is raised, some other similar product will take its place.
• Due to comparative wage flow-on, other industries are also facing pressures to increase employment costs when they would otherwise not have to.

The MIN Report

Subsidies  Trade 

02/11/84 • Unknown

• Exporters have difficulties of low international prices and high Australian costs.
• The source of the troubles is bad government instead of bad markets.
• Mining companies are being loaded with infrastructural costs which are not asked of other competing sectors of the economy.

Advertising

Subsidies  Cronyism 

09/11/84 • Unknown

• Tax funded advertising is the usage of taxes to subsidies one set of ideas against another.
• John doesn't believe that the public supports making judgements on standards such as tobacco and alcohol advertising and homosexuality.
• The Government's responsibility is to increase competition for claims about products and ideas.

Brookings on Deficits

Budget  Monetary Policy  Fiscal Policy  Economics 

16/11/84 • Unknown

• Aside from printing money, a govt deficit must be financed by bidding for the same funds that private investors seek.
• Brookings' objection to a high budget deficit is that it will reduce economic growth by increasing consumption at the expense of investment.
• Deficits allow govts to spend money that is not raised in taxes.

The OECD & Youth Employment

Industrial Relations 

23/11/84 • Unknown

• The Australian Bureau of Labour Market Research (BLMR) states that youth employment was adversely affected by increase in relative youth wages in the 1970s.
• There is a substantial barrier to downward flexibility.
• Any further employment gains by youths are the expense of adult employees.

Whither the Liberals

Politics  Economics 

30/1/84 • Unknown

• There are three philosophical positions: 1) The Dries (Free market advocates), 2) The Wets (Keynesian Big Govt advocates) and 3) The Uglies (preservers of status quo).
• Due to the people seeing political corruption, a demagogue may just get enough support by posing as a Dry or Wet to turn the Opposition's philosophy away from a more open, free and personally responsible position.

Kasper's Schumpeter Lecture

Economics 

07/12/84 • Unknown

• He opposes Keynesian theory that productivity is unchanging. His theory is that capitalism improves productivity through entrepreneurs.
• Every fifty years or so, the world goes through burst of innovation that is concentrated in certain areas.

Future Cost of Superannuation

Superannuation  Budget 

14/12/84 • Unknown

• The case against budget deficits has several arguments. One argument is that it is unfair that future debts are paid by our children.
• Today's governments are making commitments to their employees which future governments are unable to fulfil without raising taxes. Future governments faced with this issue will find a way to welsh on their predecessors' promises.

Peacock's Shadows

Politics 

21/12/84 • Unknown

• Only when a politician is in power, can he or she stay true to an ideal.

NSW Egg Corporation

Protectionism  Monopoly 

28/12/84 • Unknown

• Even though the NSW Egg board has been mandated to be efficient, it can never be truly efficient as it is a monopoly.

John Nurick

Industrial Relations 

04/01/85 • Unknown

• Incomes can only be raised if the demand for workers is increased.

Foreign Investment

Trade  Business 

18/01/85 • Unknown

• When Governments meddle with commerce, it is to grant an unequal privilege over established vested interests.

Of Statesmanship and Architecture

Politics 

18/01/85 • Unknown

• When politicians do not accept that there are constraints to their art, the state they built will be plagued by unemployment, inflation, poor economic growth, petty government tyranny and small country status overseas.

Universities

Education 

25/01/85 • Unknown

• Intellectual capital, primarily benefits whoever owns it like physical capital. It should be purchased even though it is not transferrable.
• "Free" education unfairly taxes the poor who rarely enjoy the benefits of it.

Universities 2

Education 

01/02/85 • Unknown

• Free education offers both students and academics wrong incentives.

Restructuring the High Cost Industries

Industrial Relations  Economics 

08/02/85 • Unknown

• Restructuring means releasing resources from high cost activities to invest in low cost activities.

Keep the Czar far away from us.

Individual Rights  Law  Politics 

15/02/85 • Unknown

• Liberty is freedom from the only legal organisation that is permitted to use force (The government)

Privatising

Business 

22/02/85 • Unknown

• Privatisation brings a greater portion of total capital stock under public control.
• Managers can no longer expect the public to underwrite inefficiency.

Missing out on devaluation

Currencies & Commodities 

29/02/85 • Unknown

• Full indexation of the Australian dollar at this time of declining economic fortune would be disastrous.

Asian Shipping

Business  Trade 

08/03/85 • Unknown

• Australia's shipping industry is to be handmaiden to trade and the industry's over-tonnage will burden either the ship owners or shippers.

On the right to strike

Industrial Relations  Monopoly  Law 

15/03/85 • Unknown

• There is a misuse of legal power to create monopolies.

Housing Policy

Taxation 

23/03/85 • Unknown

• Housing policies favour owners against renters. There is a considerable tax advantage to owning a home versus renting one.

Farm Costs

Protectionism  Taxation  Cronyism 

29/03/85 • Unknown

• The National Farmers Federation (NFF) wants to the government to have relief for its members but it must be prepared to get the heavily protected dairy, tobacco and sugar industry off the backs of the taxpayers.

How much for the Poor

Welfare 

05/04/85 • Unknown

• A better case for subsidies for the poor is to rest on utility.
• There is no solution for the issue of moral hazard.

The Tax Summit

Taxation 

12/04/85 • Unknown

• The current tax system is inequitable. The best tax mechanisms should mirror government expenses.

Sir Joh's Industrial Laws

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

26/04/85 • Unknown

• There should be a recognised freedom of employment in society.

An International College

Education 

03/05/85 • Unknown

• Australia has a comparative advantage in the field of education. Allowing for a private college to be setup in Perth will not take away anything from the students.

Parliamentary Superannuation

Superannuation  Protectionism 

10/05/85 • Unknown

• If the taxpayers want to get the best value for their money, the payments to government workers/politicians need to convey the right incentives.

Victorian Milk Price Arbitration 1

Regulation  Competition 

17/05/85 • Unknown

• Regulations place Victorian Milk Farmers in the worst competitive position in Australia.

Milk Price Arbitration 2

Protectionism  Regulation 

24/05/85 • Unknown

• If the Victorian Dairy Farmers do not deregulate fast enough, they will face competition from Dairy Farmers from other states.

When Elephants Mate

Individual Rights  Law 

31/05/85 • Unknown

• Consensus should never be used to replace a clear legal framework that protects the rights of the individual.

The Underlying Economic Problem: John Brunner

Economics 

07/06/85 • Unknown

• Either production must be increased substantially, or consumption must be decreased drastically.

New Zealand and Sri Lanka

Regulation  Politics  Economics 

14/06/85 • Unknown

• A democrat can, given the right circumstances, successfully implement long term economic goals.

2Parliment

Politics 

21/06/85 • Unknown

• Democracy's most fundamental problem is the domination of vested interests.

Tax, Expenditure and the Summit

Taxation 

28/06/85 • Unknown

• When there is a demand for a tax cut, there is a need to advocate for a specific expenditure cut.

The Sage of a Pipe Line

Fiscal Policy  Taxation  Politics 

05/07/85 • Unknown

• Taxpayers are slugged with the cost of infrastructure projects when the government decides to build a "monument". *Q

Helping the Poor

Welfare  Individual Rights 

12/07/85 • Unknown

• Private choices (i.e. Single Parenthood) must be subject to influences which encourage the acceptance of individual responsibility.

The Ultimate Cost of Protection

Protectionism  Politics  Trade  Economics 

19/07/85 • Unknown

• Australia is paying a heavy social price for a closed economy. Only by reducing border protection is there a possibility of turning things around.

Farmer Militancy

Protectionism  Taxation 

26/07/85 • Unknown

• Farmers should not be bought off by policies that might be regarded as income tax favouritism and that everyone keeps their sights on the objective of an efficient free society.

The Crunch

Industrial Relations  Economics  Politics 

02/08/85 • Unknown

• If Bob Hawke feels that he is too weak to defy vested interests, he will sow the seeds of economic decline for everybody.

Junior Employees - Special Orders

Individual Rights  Industrial Relations 

09/08/85 • Unknown

• Minimum wage prevents potential employees from negotiating with employers.
• The right to determine one's own labour is a basic human right.

Cutting the Deficit

Fiscal Policy  Budget 

16/08/85 • Unknown

• Any increase of public sector spending above the current level 44% GDP is not sustainable.

Maintaining Direction in Government

Politics 

23/08/85 • Unknown

• The Liberal Party must work out what it stands for.

Industrial Policy

Protectionism  Economics 

06/09/85 • Unknown

• Only a free market economy with strong positive and negative incentives can stimulate productivity.

Of Liberals, Conservatives and Dries

Politics 

13/09/85 • Unknown

• The ideas are more important than which political party wins.

Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation

Protectionism  Competition 

20/09/85 • Unknown

• It is important to privatise markets and there be alternative competitors for any former state firms.

On Maintaining Direction in Government

Politics 

27/09/85 • Unknown

• The Liberal Party needs to be consistent in its ideas put forth.

A Mandate to Govern

Politics 

04/10/85 • Unknown

• Changes which benefit the entire economy rather than just the few will only work if the vested interests understand that they tend to gain more than they lose.

The National Party and The Farmers

Politics  Protectionism  Trade  Taxation 

11/10/85 • Unknown

• Australia's trade barriers is costing Australian farmers on average $12,000 annually and is more than fuel taxes, capital gain tax and all other areas of rural complaints.

The Accord, Labour Market Regulation

Regulation  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

18/10/85 • Unknown

• Only soft approaches that are based in individual liberty will work for labour deregulation.

Going for Growth or For Broke

Economics 

25/10/85 • Unknown

• Foreign capital used for growth is no cause for concern. Only if it is used to finance current consumption.

Lange's Economy

Economics  Politics 

01/11/85 • Unknown

• Mr David Lange is the man who steered the New Zealand economy to eventual recovery by using free market principles.

Occupational Regulation **

Regulation  Competition 

08/11/85 • Unknown

• A licence does not inform a buyer about who is the best service provider. The effect is to stop competition.

Neither Left nor Right nor Half Way In Between

Politics 

15/11/85 • Unknown

• Labels confusion and creates acrimony where none need exist.

The WA TV Licences

Politics  Regulation 

22/11/85 • Unknown

• The root cause of Australia's economic decline is the subtle corruption of political authority.

Transparency II

Protectionism  Politics  Economics 

29/11/85 • Unknown

• Industry specific councils are a menace which should not be given any standing when forming public policy.

The Australian Dollar

Currencies & Commodities  Monetary Policy 

06/12/85 • Unknown

• If the Australia dollar is unable to maintain stability internally (inflation) and externally (exchange rate), then Australians will demand payment in something else they can trust in.

What Is Wrong with The Liberals?

Politics 

13/12/85 • Unknown

• John Howard wants to remove privilege and the Liberal Party has upset some of the most powerful interests in the land. The only way is forward.

The Wages Debate

Industrial Relations  Law 

20/12/85 • Unknown

• Most people resent the abuse of union power and fear that the unions will bring the country to its knees before giving up power.
• Legally binding awards and trade union monopoly powers which constraint people which they did not agree to are morally reprehensible.

The New Year

Politics  Economics 

27/12/85 • Unknown

• We are still the lucky country and could use 1986 to order our affairs.

Superannuation

Taxation  Superannuation 

03/01/86 • Unknown

• Compulsory superannuation is a tax pledged to investment.

Taxis

Protectionism  Regulation  Cronyism 

10/01/86 • Unknown

• Taxi deregulation is the same as any other product or service regulation. There will be winners and losers, but everyone should benefit in the long term.

A New Political Party?

Politics  Leadership 

18/01/86 • Unknown

• Good political leadership is not the practice of defying public opinion but the art of changing of it.

Privatisation

Competition  Regulation 

25/01/86 • Unknown

• The main purpose of privatisation is increased productivity not obtaining the highest selling price for the underlying asset.

Privatisation II

Property Rights  Competition 

31/01/86 • Unknown

• There no substitute for care of a private owner over public ownership.

Dumping

Protectionism  Competition 

08/02/86 • Unknown

• Any Australian produced good that is dumped on the Australian market benefits Australians.

Written on Turning Fifty

Fiscal Policy 

15/02/86 • Unknown

• The reliance on credit by the current generation will cause future generations to be in debt.

John Burton

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Relative economic decline should be reversed by deregulation and privatisation.

Oil Revenues

Welfare  Taxation  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• Revenue from the Bass Strait oil fields should be shared as widely as possible instead of being concentrated in unemployment benefits.

Parliamentary Reform

Politics 

08/03/86 • Unknown

• Parliamentary privilege is being abused by politicians that slander each other instead of debating the merits of each bill.

The Real IR Debate

Protectionism  Industrial Relations  Business  Individual Rights 

15/03/86 • Unknown

• Being able to opt out of a wage award allows the parties to come to an agreement rather than having something forced upon them.

Recovery Alone Was Not Enough

Industrial Relations  Business  Individual Rights 

22/03/86 • Unknown

• To reduced unemployment, we need to free labour and capital from government and the unions.

Sir Hal Colebatch

Politics  Fiscal Policy  Protectionism 

02/04/86 • Unknown

• He stood against: 1) protectionism, 2) excessive borrowing and 3) legislation that compelled price controls.

Housing Interest Rates

Regulation  Monetary Policy  Interest Rates 

Unknown • Unknown

• Regulated interest rates cause those that are unable to obtain regulated money to resort to hire purchase and second mortgages. They also distort housing supply.

The Trilogy

Fiscal Policy  Budget  Taxation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The trilogy promises are: 1) reduction of the Federal budget, 2) no increase in tax revenue and 3) reduction of Federal budget outlays.
• There is a need to increase investment to meet the trilogy.

Fools or Knaves? The Reith Lectures

Politics  Economics  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Our current politicians favour interventionism, the question is whether they are knaves or fools? *

American Morality

Politics  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• The degree to which basic human rights are respected by a nation is the degree of its morality.

The Future of Agriculture

Protectionism  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• The two demands by the National Farmers Federation that industry protection by reduced and that real wages reflect the nation's economic circumstances are reasonable.

Retrospectivity 3

Law 

Unknown • Unknown

• When a law is interpreted in an unintended way, a new law confirming things are they are thought to be may enhance certainty and equity.

The Opposition's I.R. Policy

Protectionism  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• The Liberal policy will give all employees the right not to join a union.

EPAC And Gruen On Trade

Protectionism  Regulation  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• Professor Gruen says that selling below full cost in not regarded as an unfair trading practices within Australia. It smacks of double standards when it is labelled as unfair when done by foreigners.

The Accord

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• The accord between the Labour Party and the Trade Unions are about to be tested. A productivity award will cause unemployment to be higher than it should be.

Grain Handling

Protectionism  Trade 

Unknown • Unknown

• With all the barriers to trade, we are a banana republic.

Lamb Board

Protectionism  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The board's policies have not been helping Lamb producers.

New Zealand

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The Lange Labour government has deregulated New Zealand to great success.

Fraser On Howard

Politics  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The question facing the next Prime Minister is whether they will tackle our economic crisis without deferring to vested interests.

Howard's Economic Statement

Politics  Competition  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• Australia's chronic condition is how uncompetitive our industries are. The supply side of the Australian economy must become more flexible.

Cheer Up Things Are Getting Worse

Industrial Relations  Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Deregulation will force unionist to bear the consequences of their own actions.

Party Conferences

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Due to the loss of trust in the Liberal Party, the WA Liberals can put their house in order by electing a president and a team that is not tainted by the past.

A Crisis of the Spirit

Economics  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• If Australians are to accept that there must be uneven sacrifices, we must feel that we are going somewhere.

The Evatt Foundation Conference

Regulation  Subsidies  Politics  Business  Competition 

Unknown • Unknown

• Public sector monopolies give politicians opportunities to subsidise favoured voters.
• The public benefits the most from competition not private ownership.

Holmes, Rattigan & Chaney

Protectionism 

Unknown • Unknown

• Vested interests are no longer stifle debate about protectionism.

The Federal Budget

Politics  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• The government should adopt the same rigorous prudential standards as businesses

Industrial Relations in The Pilbara

Industrial Relations  Trade 

Unknown • Unknown

• Foreign buyers only care about the price of iron ore. It is hard to understand why employee insist on practices that reduce productivity.

Trace

Protectionism  Competition 

Unknown • Unknown

• High transport costs are crippling otherwise efficient industries.

What's at stake at Robe River

Industrial Relations  Business 

Unknown • Unknown

• The main issue is whether Robe will be allowed to increase productivity and to invest in further developing costlier ore bodies or will the unions force it out of business.

Education and Guardianship

Education  Competition 

Unknown • Unknown

• The best kind of education where a child can get is one where there is a lot of competition.

What Is the New Right?

Politics  Industrial Relations  Individual Rights  Taxation  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• Our wishes are to reduce union power, unfair business privileges, balance the government budget, reduced public expenditure and taxes, stopping the middle class from being ripped off, restore competiveness and protection of the family.

Textiles, Clothing & Footwear (not in print)

Protectionism  Trade 

Unknown • Unknown

• Workers that are in a protected industry must be prepared to accept modest wages that arise as a result of protectionism, if not, the economy will suffer, and riots will occur.

Of Taxes and Superannuation

Taxation  Superannuation  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• Democracies can slash marginal tax rates if they want to;
• Some people are unwilling or unable to provide for themselves.
• It is the demands of the middle class that make tax reductions difficult.
• Union organised superannuation can be a competitive and safe alternative to high welfare payments and taxes.

The Premier's Plan

Politics  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• The premiers seem to be incurring disastrous debts in order to buy votes.

Living with The Dole

Welfare 

Unknown • Unknown

• In order to have full employment, wages must fall. However, low wages make the dole attractive; there should be a work requirement for the dole.

Star Wars

Defence  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Ronald Reagan did not have the right to trade away the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). It is immoral to give away the ability to stop a nuclear attack in flight.

Howard

Politics  Leadership 

Unknown • Unknown

• John Howard has the perseverance to implement his view on governance.

Jackey's Marsh

Environment  Individual Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• Where private ownership over resources is granted, there usually is loving care over the property.
• The main question is whether the area in Jackey's Marsh is logged, maintained as it is or used in other ways.

The Constitution and Human Rights

Law  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• We are all underprivileged in something and none of us in everything. *
• The most important role of any constitution should be the protection of citizens by limiting the power of the government.

The New Enlightenment

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• To describe people who want less state authority as "right" is slander.

What is Unemployment?

Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Unemployment figures are no longer a good proxy for economic distress which must be identified more directly.

The NFF Seeks Audience

Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The National Farmers Federation (NFF)'s paper argues that the government's policies are unable to cope with changes.

The Laffer Curve

Taxation  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• There should have been greater expenditure cuts to compensate for tax cuts on the low and middle-income taxpayers.

Will Unemployment Ever Come Down

Industrial Relations  Welfare 

Unknown • Unknown

• Reducing taxes on the lowest paid where anyone who was on unemployment benefits will be better off working is the most politically and morally right.

Welfare, Targeting Need

Welfare 

Unknown • Unknown

• In practice, the number who qualifies for unemployment benefits must be reduced by restricting eligibility.

Of Bread and Circuses

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Governmental authority is not the equivalent of nationhood.
• If our government gets the fundamentals of a free and prosperous society right, circuses (symbols) will look after themselves.

Petersen et al

Politics  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Debt and inflation are now so serious they must be remedied with a strong and specific political mandate.

Commerce and Government Don't Mix

Business  Politics  Regulation  Cronyism 

Unknown • Unknown

• Government operates differently in that only it can legally force people to do it's bidding.
• Market imperfections are most often caused by government interference on behalf of vested interests.

Health Care

Healthcare 

Unknown • Unknown

• Doctors and hospital bed must be rationed, and supply must be matched to demand by queuing.

The Rocky Horror Show

Economics  Regulation  Taxation 

Unknown • Unknown

• The deficit should be reduced by cutting government expenditure instead of raising taxes.
• The proven way to economic success is through deregulation.

David Heald Reports to the ACTU

Politics  Collectivism 

Unknown • Unknown

• His main recommendation is that collectivists must do everything in their power to recapture the political agenda from the economic libertarians in the 'New Right' think tanks.

Not Lazy (Published in the Weekend Australian as Monopolies corner the market in frustration)

Protectionism  Monopoly  Regulation  Business 

21-22/03/87 • Unknown

• Australians are more often frustrated with government regulations than lazy.
• Monopolies are the reason for Australia's lost competiveness than laziness.

The Next Prime Minister

Politics  Taxation  Leadership 

Unknown • Unknown

• A leader should be strong enough to make cuts to the deficit and also be strong enough to deregulate and privatise.

Of Unions, Rights and Property

Industrial Relations  Taxation  Property Rights 

Unknown • Unknown

• The poorest person has no property but their labour.
• The government's first responsibility is the security of its citizens. Does taxation extend to the right of labour of its citizens?

A Manifesto

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• An attack on the new right stems from self-interest.

A Manifesto

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Today's drive towards liberty and reason has been called the New Enlightenment and sounds better than New Right.

Referendums

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• In Australia, the public may wish to say no to a policy of the government without voting them out of office.

The Fiscal Problem

Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• Public sector borrowing requirement must be eliminated and the Commonwealth must move quickly to a modest surplus with the States coming close to fiscal balance.

Howard III

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• John Howard cannot stop reading differences from being aired nor should he try.

The Deficit 1987

Economics  Taxation  Fiscal Policy 

Unknown • Unknown

• When governments borrow rather than raise taxes, there are several consequences: 1) The young lose, 2) investments drop, 3) The country's credit rating suffers, 4) The police are required to force people to service the debt, 5) Foreign debt accumulates and 6) The government is tempted to inflate the currency.

South Africa

Economics  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Political power is least important in a liberal free market society with a small government.

Two Ways of Coping with Unions

Industrial Relations  Law 

Unknown • Unknown

• Reducing the power of unions until they have to obey the law like everyone else.
• Passing legislation to override the power of the unions.

Transport and the Economy

Regulation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Transport modes and service should compete on equal terms. The subsidies favouring LPG over petrol should be eliminated.
• Competition between wharves, grain, sugar, container terminals and other port facilities could be greatly enhanced through implementing the Liner Shipping Report

If the Liberals Should Do Badly

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• If the Liberal and National Parties are defeated this time, the current in-evitable drop in living standards will cause power to be returned to them.

The Campaign Issues

Politics  Regulation  Industrial Relations  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• John Howard's policy stances are more like Margaret Thatcher than he is given credit for.
• The important issue is to increase efficiency without which Australia is sunk. Tax cuts matter but not so much as deregulation and industrial relations reform.

A Liberal Liberal Party

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Labour leadership is unashamedly elitist.
• John Howard has turned the Liberal Party from the control of people whose approach to governance is mirrors the current Labour party. Like Margaret Thatcher, he has been slandered and abused by members of his political party.

The Issues Today

Politics  Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

• Labour's industrial relations policy is corporatist, Liberal's is individualist. The main issue is who will rid is to national debt.

Trade Unions in Britain

Industrial Relations 

Unknown • Unknown

A Tale of Two Nations

Regulation  Politics  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The message for Australia and Fiji is that we have a choice between raising our gross national product or lower our standards of living.
• It is either deregulate or decay.

The 'right' that never existed

Industrial Relations  Individual Rights 

04/12/88 • Unknown

• There is no inherent right to strike only to stop working. By preventing other people from taking their jobs, they are subtracting their rights.

Giving Authority Back to Parliament

Politics 

04-05/02/89 • Unknown

• For government accountability to be present, all political parties must honour the Westminster tradition and there must be an independent press.

What Has Happened to Political Leadership?

Politics  Leadership 

Unknown • Unknown

• Political leadership is about making the connections and explaining the trade-offs.

The Lamb Marketing Corporation

Protectionism  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The average producer is unaware that they are being duped and politicians have no interest in informing them.

The National Companies and Securities Commission

Protectionism 

Unknown • Unknown

• The National Companies and Securities Commission (NCSC) should be dissolved if they are seen to be protecting certain interests.

Policing the Media

Monopoly  Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The limitations that government places on the media outlets are unnecessary.
• One wonders if the government would like the media to feel obligated to them.

The Case Against the Tax File Number

Taxation 

Unknown • Unknown

• Income tax is intrusive, penalises investment, uncertain and unfair. It should be replaced by a consumption tax.

Not So New Federalism

Politics  Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The Australian economy will not recover until the people who make the economic decisions face the consequences of their own decisions.

David Kemp

Politics  Philosophy 

Unknown • Unknown

• Professor Kemp is hopeful that authority is now seen to have limitations and liberal ideas flowing from government groups.

The Winding Up of WA Inc

Politics  Cronyism 

Unknown • Unknown

• The activities of WA Inc are wrong because they benefit private interests at the expense of the public.

Of Honour and Politics

Politics 

Unknown • Unknown

• Friction is in the nature of politics, there is a need to conduct the party's affairs well.

The Dropping of The Pilot

Politics 

10/05/1989 • Unknown

• John Howard's greatest achievement was to develop a party that would not be in bed with special interests.

The Election and The Debt

Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The incoming government must deal with the problem of excessive foreign debt. Increased productivity is the only way to go.

The Dreadful Campaign

Politics 

26/03/1990 • Unknown

• It is ironic that some communist countries are enthusiastically embracing democracy while we are making of a mess of it.

Of Rural Industry and The Economy

Economics 

Unknown • Unknown

• The reason for our relative economic decline is the failure to seek out areas where we have comparative advantage.
• For the moment, primary industry such as farming, and mining is where we are efficient.