Emmo Forum Ep 5 - Security, Privacy, CCTV: The Surveillance Society w/Dr Emmeline Taylor
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Column in The Australian - Labor Must Resist Economic Populism
As Labor begins the task of charting a course back to government it now has, as it did following the election defeat of 1996, a choice of two roads. The high road of developing responsible policies in the national interest always looks steep and arduous, especially when the low road of political populism beckons, littered with the cheap allure of support by interest groups opposed to reform.
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Ep5 - Security, Privacy, CCTV: The Surveillance Society w/Dr Emmeline Taylor
ABC Radio National Discussion - The Cost of Free Trade
Click through for an ABC Radio National Sunday Extra discussion on free trade, specifically an Australia-China trade deal.
Column in The Australian - Government Borrowings Are Sometimes The Most Sensible Way of Funding Infrastructure
DEBT, it seems, is not a dirty word any more. It all changed at the swearing in of the new government. Having relentlessly called on the previous government to stop the debt, the Coalition government is planning to increase it.
Read moreEmmo Forum Ep 4 - Climate Change: We Must Not Relent
Ep4 - Climate Change: We Must Not Relent
Column in The Australian - Determination Needed to Seal the Deals on Trad
Within a year the Abbott government hopes to have inked trade deals with China, Japan, Korea and the 11 other members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Announcing a planned completion date is the easy part. Here’s what Australia would need to do to seal the deals.
Read moreEmmo Forum Ep 3 - Education: Opening the Door to Opportunity
Ep3 - Education: Opening the Door to Opportunity
Craig Emerson Economics Joins the ACBC
Six months ago Craig Emerson was representing Australia in Paris,
chairing an OECD meeting on the Asian Century and hectoring key member
countries of the World Trade Organization on the necessity of opening up
their markets in the long-running global trade talks.
Now the
former Australian Trade Minister and Minister for Tertiary Education is
working with business clients as Managing Director of Craig Emerson
Economics Pty Ltd, one of the newest members of the Australia China
Business Council.
Story Club - Don't Mention the War
This story was written for the Story Club, a Sydney story-telling group that meets monthly in a pub in Surry Hills. It is a story told through the eyes and in the words of my Dad, based on a diary he kept as a Prisoner of War during World War II. Most of the war years story words are verbatim from the diary, which I have kept and intend giving to the Australian War Memorial.
Read moreColumn in The Australian - Right Risks Slamming Uni Gates on Disadvantaged
When champions of free markets turn to central planning as the preferred means of allocating scarce resources you know the world has gone nuts. Such is the weirdness of the debate about how best to allocate university places.
Read moreColumn in The Weekend Australian - High Aussie Dollar Threatens Jobs & Budget
AUSTRALIA'S rebounding dollar is threatening the transition from the peak of the mining boom to a more diversified economy capable of taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the Asian Century. It also helps explain why the federal government has foreshadowed deferring the mid-year economic and fiscal outlook until January as the high dollar further weakens government revenues.
Read moreEmmo Forum Ep 2 - 21st Century Progressive Thinking
Ep2 - 21st Century Progressive Thinking
Emmo Forum Ep 1 - Where To From Here?
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Column in The Weekend Australian - Policies Perfect for Shredder
Several of the Coalition's investment and trade plans will harm the national interest.
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