Food prices: ‘Bread, coffee and fresh fruit have become a bit of a luxury’ Affordability is now the key factor for grocery shoppers, with ethical considerations least important • Lester Brown: World is closer to a food crisis than most realise• Damian Carrington: Rising prices are climate change’s first bite Share182 Email Rebecca Smithers and Continue Reading →
Myth of Perpetual Growth is Killing Us All. Published June 17, 2012 | By John James Everything you think you know about economics … is wrong. Dead wrong. And until economics acknowledge this, the discipline is on a self-destruct path. Why? The science of economics is not science. Yes, it looks scientific with all the Continue Reading →
Oil Price Daily News Update New IMF Model is Far More Accurate at Predicting Oil Production Has Julia Gillard’s Time in Power Ruined Australia’s Economy? Explaining the Relationship between Stimulus and Spending in Economic Growth New IMF Model is Far More Accurate at Predicting Oil Production Posted: 11 May 2012 03:18 PM PDT The International Continue Reading →
The Project Monitor’s Project Notes, Can the Greens learn to love mining, December 21, 2011 is divisive, unhelpful and foolish.
It accuses the Greens of living in a “fairy tale economic world” of intending “to bury the resources sector” and of promoting energy solutions that “would cause [the nation] to close down within a couple of days”.
This is exactly the sort of misleading rhetoric and outright falsehood that leads to political grandstanding and the kind of gutter level name calling that has become the hallmark of the old political parties.
Despite having promised to restore rail services to the electorate of Richmond in the previous two federal election campaigns, Justine Elliot, has now claimed the problem has nothing to do with her and is a state issue.
In her bid to win the seat for the ALP in 2004 she claimed that a Mark Latham would provide the funding to the State Government to restore the original train service.
In her maiden speech in Parliament, she confirmed the promise and described it as being a suitable cause to apply the fire that she felt for serving the community.
Green Loans debacle continues as audit reports reveal extent ofwrong-doing Thursday 8 July 2010 There are more questions than answers remaining about the Gillardgovernment’s household energy efficiency programs after today’sannouncement by Minister Penny Wong. The changes to the Green Loans program, rolling it into the alreadyplanned Green Start program, come as the Minister released damning Continue Reading →