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Canberra Saving You Time for Six Years Issue 65 1 July to 9 August, 2014 Letter from Canberra Saving you time for six years. A Rocky World Edition Inside MH17 ♦ Carbon tax gone ♦ Budget not yet through ♦ PUP and Palmer Slipper facing jail ♦ Banana syndrome ♦ Refugees consideration ABC Board and other things ♦ Abe visit ♦ Palmer’s port dollars Changes in Indonesian leadership ♦ Vision thing ♦ Credlin for detail Internet surveillance for us All ♦ Abetz needs rethink the workplace Hockey apologizes ♦ Tamil asylum seekers ♦ The Forrest Report Hugh White watching 1914 Contact us Affairs of State Letter from Canberra 14 Collins Street A monthly digest of news from around Australia. Melbourne, 3000 Saving you time; now in its sixth year. Victoria, Australia P 03 9654 1300 F 03 9654 1165 Contents 4 Editorial 13 Agriculture, cattle & water [email protected] 4 Feature article 13 Media Letter From Canberra is a monthly public affairs 4 Governance 13 Justice bulletin, a simple précis, distilling and interpreting public policy and government decisions, which 7 Labor doings 14 Broadband & IT affect business opportunities in Victoria and 7 Industrial relations & employment 14 Transport & infrastructure Australia. 8 Business, economy, 14 Health Written for the regular traveller, or people with manufacturing & finance meeting-filled days, it’s more about business 15 Education opportunities than politics. 9 Mining 16 Foreign affairs Letter from Canberra is independent. It’s not party 9 Trade political or any other political. It does not have the 16 Defence imprimatur of government at any level. 10 Refugees & immigration 17 Sports & arts 11 Tax The only communication tool of its type, Letter 17 Society from Canberra keeps subscribers abreast of recent 12 Tourism developments in the policy arena on a local, state 18 Book review: The Making Of Australia and federal level. 12 Gaming A Concise History Published by A.B Urquhart & Company Pty Ltd 12 Climate change, trading as Affairs of State. environment & energy Disclaimer: Material in this publication is general comment and not intended as advice on any About the editor particular matter. Professional advice should to be sought before action is taken. Alistair Urquhart, BA LLB Alistair Urquhart graduated from the Australian National University in Canberra, Material is complied from various sources in Law, History and Politics. He may even hold the record for miles rowed on Lake including newspaper articles, press releases, Burley Griffin. government publications, Hansard, trade journals, etc. He was admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Victoria, and remains a (non-practicing) member of the Law Institute of Victoria. Previously, he Copyright: This newsletter is copyright. No part graduated from high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and had many opportunities to may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by become aware of the workings of Washington D.C. any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written For 30 years, he listened every Sunday evening to the late Alistair Cooke and his permission from the publisher. Letter from America. Alistair’s early career was mostly in the coal industry, where he became involved with energy, environmental and water issues, and later in the SME Affairs of State respects your privacy. While we finance sector. do believe that the information contained in Letter from Melbourne will be useful to you, please advise us if you do not wish to receive any further He found time to be involved in a range of community activities where he came to understand some of the practical communications from us. aspects of dealing with government and meeting people across the political spectrum. He now chairs a large disability employment service, including its British operations. Edited words in this edition: 19,189 About the publisher Staff Affairs of State Editor Established in 1993, is an independent Australian public affairs firm with contemporary international connections. 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Advertise With Us Get your voice to the people that matter. Want to get your firm or product in front of the power-holders of Australia? Advertising with Letter from Canberra is the best way to do so. Read by CEOs, MPs and movers-and-shakers in Canberra and beyond, our magazine gets your voice by the people who matter. Email [email protected] or call 9654 1300 to discuss how we can help you. Letter from Canberra Editorial served as Deputy Chairman of the Trustees tralia, COSBOA, did not endorse the in- of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance tention to register the Small Business Party The Feature Article this month is about and was a Life Governor of the Shrine. of Australia at their summit. The National the Australian small business community. He became well known after his retire- Small Business Summit brings together Perhaps community is not the appropriate ment for landscape and seascape painting, key business leaders, bureaucrats and gov- word as it follows the words small busi- publishing fourteen books containing his ernment representatives to share informa- ness. Yes, a much better word is sector. As paintings and poems. He married Jennifer tion, experiences and ideas that will help an active player in this space back in the Haggard in 1952, and had four daughters improve productivity and policy related to mid-1980’s, I continue to closely watch its and a son. His wife jennifer’s father was the small business industry, www.nation- continual fight in the industrial relations the commander of the Australian subma- alsmallbusinesssummit.com.au space and in the terrifying ring and rain of rine which was sunk of the Dardenelles in regulation which continues to take its toll. 1915. Governance Had to laugh the other day when I thought Taking aim I heard and read that one of the federal With the Great War on our mind, this pic- ture of Canberra, which hangs in the Edi- According to a report in The Age, an angry Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused Rus- government Misisters was suggesting yet tor’s office, was painted by his good friend sia of attempting to wash its hands of any re- another really silly idea, that these busi- Dacre. sponsibility for the MH17 disaster and blamed nesses should be bombarded by 40 phone pro-Russian forces for blocking access to the calls per week from people seeking jobs. Feature article crash site. Move over telephone sales folk from India. Dr John Hewson, a former leader of the Proof of Russian involvement The idea of a Small Business Party is not a According to The Age, Ukraine’s spy chief good idea, in the Editor’s opinion. parliamentary Liberal Party, said the next 18 months will be a tough time for small shared with media in Kiev some of the informa- tion the Ukraine security service had gathered, The Budget will pass in due course. Fed- business and the community should be from phone intercepts and from agents within eral parliament sits again on 26 August. concerned about what will sustain Aus- the region controlled by the rebels. He showed Some budget bills , there are several of tralia’s economy past the mining boom. a photograph which he said was a BUK-M1 them, will be sliced and diced/disaggre- at the opening of the 12th National Small system identified on the streets of Donetsk city gated/etc, to satisfy Palmer and other in- – near the crash site – on July 17. Among the Business Summit, in Melbourne in early members of the team operating the missile sys- dependent Senators and their individual August. tem were Russian citizens, Vitaly Nayda said. needs for the Future prosperity and stabil- ity of Australia! Dr Hewson criticised the latest federal According to the Herald Sun, the evidence in- budget as lacking an overall policy that cludes intercepts of separatist communications Asylum-seekers: it all depends on your referring to possession of an SA-11 rocket sys- provides a strong direction for the country tem; and pictures of the SA-11 being moved view. Its difficult to develop one’s mind on or one that translates the value of small through separatist controlled towns. this one, especially with the subjunctive businesses into policy. presentations by most of the media. Putin’s role John Codrington, Founding National Pres- According to Daniel Flitton in The Age: ‘The Lots of memoirs and other books focusing ident of Small Business Party of Australia one person who could immediately secure the on politics and Government are moving Inc.
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