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IN THIS ISSUE: Sex Sharing  Housing Prices State Federal Switches  Federation Reform Aboriginal Change Issue 73 22 May to 09 July , 2015 Saving you time for eight years. A Weather Edition, whatever the weather may be around Australia IN THIS ISSUE: Sex Sharing Housing Prices State federal switches Federation reform Aboriginal change. BHP support Shorten Chief of staff resigns 70/30 Union reform Lots more cheap houses in Australia New coal mine causes fuss for Barnaby Maurice Newman says new world order Our Riverina and arid zone management OUR Ship building Contact Us Affairs of State Letter from Canberra 14 Collins Street Melbourne, 3000 A monthly digest of news from around Australia. Victoria, Australia P 03 9654 1300 Saving you time; now in its eighth year. 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The firm provides the following to clients: Edited words in this edition: 21,200 - Two monthly publications - Events at our offices and elsewhere - Charts and specialist directories - Facilitation with business and legal skills - Training courses Staff - Mentoring of senior executives Editor Alistair Urquhart [email protected] Sub Editor (since Edition 199) Josh Davis [email protected] Design Cory Zanoni [email protected] This issue designed by Mab Rahman Copy Editor Robert Stove [email protected] Subscriptions & advertising Katie Rigg [email protected] 22 May to 09 July 2015 Letter From Canberra EDITORIAL The debate over same-sex marriage Intergenerational Report, the 2015 Behind the Scenes will come to a head when Parliament Budget, and the White Paper We are having some fortunate resumes in August, with a marriage concerning tax reform. opportunities to see the realism of life equality bill moved by Liberal and living and working with the union MP Warren Entsch and seconded by Federation Blues sector/arena. It is unlike the family unit Labor MP Terri Butler and backed by a Andrew Bragg, director of policy at the mostly, the opposite of small business, multi-party grouping to be introduced. Financial Services Council, recently big business, the public service and wrote in a column for The some of its iterations, the politicians Too Many Warning Signs Australian that ‘proposals for and parliamentarians and their staff, According to Sean Carney’s opinion federation reform must be taken to the the academic world, the health world, piece in the Herald Sun, the Secretary 2016 election. Renovating our and the wide range of professions, of federal Treasury, John Fraser, federation is an essential reform, yet and folk just sharing a community or declared there was a housing bubble we have barely fired the starter’s gun working down the street. in Sydney and parts of Melbourne. His in the public debate. Just as there claim was rejected out of hand by the appears to be consensus around the This Editor has talking a hard mind to PM and the Treasurer. Hockey need for tax reform, we need to agree ethics and integrity and truth and responded by saying that there’s no that Australia’s federation requires fairness and civility in recent years, as problem at all with rising house prices radical surgery. To get us in the mood, a result of a few ambushes to his because people keep buying houses. the federal government should issue person. Then the governor of the Reserve the Green Paper of the Federation Bank, Glenn Stevens, chimed in, White Paper process that has been The newspapers and the journalists describing house prices in Sydney as promised.’ have not known for quite some time ‘crazy’ and a ‘social problem’. With that we have government elected for such warnings, if Labor was in power, a certain period of years here in can anyone Will Iemma Do A Carr? Australia at a federal and state level, imagineAbbott and Hockey not going Morris Iemma, who succeeded Bob and one could be amazed that they to town and warning of imminent, Carr as New South Wales Premier in write and print as thought they are debt-fuelled disaster for hardworking 2005 and held the office till 2008, is unaware of this fact. Australian families? planning a return to politics. The Age described him as aiming to Lets have some infrastructure and Disclosure? What Disclosure? contest the marginal federal seat of build and do stuff rather that Early in June, The Australian revealed Barton. An ALP source said: ‘He is hot have Oppositions and other that several federal MPs have refused to trot.’ A separate source said: ‘With opposition query every items every to disclose the reasons for spending his profile he would be very hard to day. taxpayers’ money on travel, have beat.’ ignored requests to justify expenses, Although a state-to-federal switch is Happy Reading. and have even claimed extra sums for much rarer for this country’s politicians the purpose of funding their election- than for their American and German night television appearances. These counterparts, Australian precedents do GOVERNANCE tidings emerged from a damning exist for such a move. Quite apart Same Position, Different Sex report by the Australian National Audit from Joseph Lyons, who in 1931 was Prime Minister Tony Abbott has Office. elected Prime Minister after spending slapped down a cross-party attempt to years as Tasmania’s Premier, Mr Carr legalise same-sex marriage, but still Very Expensive Advertising himself served as federal Foreign faces six weeks of potentially divisive Campaigns Minister in the dying months of the debate over the issue, with The Age announced recently that the Gillard-Rudd government. For that conservative MP’s mobilising to block Federal government had budged more matter,Sir Robert Menzies did a stint any move to legislate the landmark than $36 million to spend on in Victoria’s Deputy Premiership social reform according to The Age. advertising campaigns promoting its before Canberra’s charms beckoned. 3 22 May to 09 July 2015 Letter From Canberra Childcare In The Senate property, an analysis by the Financial that the current push to recognise first The two big Budget initiatives the Review reveals. Australians in the Constitution in 2017 government has been selling are the – this push being one which Mr Abbott small business tax write-off, and the The same politicians have also highly favours – could be jeopardised, childcare package. But the childcare claimed taxpayer-funded travel unless more ambitious proposals tied package is looking as if it might be in allowance for staying overnight in to the referendum are dropped.
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