Cash Splash Inquiry

It might be hard to recall now, but back in 2008, Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan claimed the biggest economic challenge Australia faced was the now long-forgotten ‘inflation genie’ and the economy growing too quickly. Labor finally realised after months of...

A Stimulus for Labor, not Australia

This week in the Senate I have been leading the attack against the Labor government’s biased application of stimulus and schools funding. As reported in the Sunday Telegraph, research I conducted on the $810 million Science and Language Centre (SLC) program has...

Labor failing on Health

This week the Senate will be debating the Rudd Government’s third broken health election promise. First, Labor fiddled with the Medicare levy surcharge last year; second, it failed to “fix hospitals” by its own June deadline and now it is moving to slash the Private...

A Greener, Cheaper, Smarter ETS

Earlier today, Malcolm Turnbull and Andrew Robb launched a report by Frontier Economics into alternative emissions trading schemes. This work was developed using the same economic model used for Labor’s Garnaut Report and the Treasury’s model of the CPRS. This report...