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Issue 211 07 March 2016 to 15 April 2016 Issue 211 07 March 2016 to 15 April 2016 IN THIS ISSUE State income tax unlikely Planning controls Jeff’s Good idea The Palace Easter Holiday pay McMansions Sydney’s War High rise… Carlton Connect/White Bay Let’s support our Surf Life Saving Clubs Do we twin the MCG? Port Sold. Note Qube. SkyRail Birrell Infrastructure Challenge Road cra(m)p More Police About Us Affairs of State Letter from Melbourne 14 Collins Street Melbourne, 3000 Since 1994. A monthly public affairs newsletter distilling public policy and govern- Victoria, Australia ment decisions which effect business opportunities in Victoria, Australia and P 03 9654 1300 beyond. 2,000,000 words available to search digitally. 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Edited words in this edition: 10,087 The firm provides the following to clients: 211 editions. 2.45 million words approx. - Two monthly publications - Events at our offices and elsewhere - Charts and specialist directories Staff - Facilitation with business and legal skills Editor - Training courses Alistair Urquhart - Mentoring of senior executives [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] 07 March 2016 to 15 April 2016 Letter From Melbourne EDITORIAL of concerns about excessive wheel-wear and electorate officers should not take part in State income tax as a reality takes us back to failed boom gate closures. political or party duties. It also said time sheets the Second World War, when the federal had insufficient details with respect to activities government took over this particular, and #Meanwhile, negotiations with the opposition to performed and many didn’t provide guidelines to particularly important, tax from the states so that sell the Port of Melbourne seemed at that time employment roles according to The Age . the nation would have a stronger war budget. to have ground to a standstill, bringing into doubt billions of dollars’ worth of funding for FEDERAL Behind the lines, with most public Labor’s signature level. PM’s State Income Tax gambit/idea service/delivery sectors, one can clearly see the Malcolm Turnbull is/was pushing for a radical effect of the relevant unions: health, education, #There was the sky rail public relations disaster, plan to give states and territories the power to transport, and just generally, without forgetting in which hundreds of angry locals were told on a impose their own income taxes for the first time construction and retail. Such influence is at the Saturday night of a massive new rail viaduct just since World War II. The Prime Minister is/was very top of the Structure of Government as well before it was made public in the media. warning of a “failure at the heart of the as further down the line or hierarchy. This is at federation” in the way states and territories rely the state level, though presently the media is The government had damaging internal leaks. on Canberra for $50 billion in tied grants, focusing more on construction across Australia Most recently, The Herald Sun reported on a declaring it would be better to give them a share and perhaps the finance industry in a different dumped cabinet proposal for a new public of income tax revenue and full control over how sort of focus. sector watchdog to scrutinize state MPs and it was spent. their taxpayer funded staff. On other lines In a day of conflicting signals over an enormous Your Editor did an opinion survey on the There are however early warning signs of a reform, Turnbull acknowledged that the states Metropolitan transport System, as he was warning to governments on the cusp of would be free to raise income taxes, while the breathing into the face of a fellow stander upper stumbling onto the wrong path. The first is the Treasurer insisted there was no intention of at the Richmond Station. ‘I’ll give it 8 out of ten. I presence of low-level grumbling from the increasing the tax burden. live out a bit, but I am grateful to be able to get backbench (or, more seriously, the front bench) The Prime Minister released a statement to work pretty easily most days of the week’. He about the leader’s office. Such complaints were declaring there would be no increase in the total was the right age and a positive fellow. But we common immediately before the Rudd, Gillard, tax because any revenue sacrificed by Canberra need a few more Birrells and Others to pick up Baillieu, Napthine and Abbott governments would be offset by reductions in payments to the an often chaotic/regularly smashed (!) train descended into hell, writes Josh Gordon for state. system. Perhaps get Kennett and Stockdale into The Age . a Cage to really push a few things. Grrr. State premiers wary of the proposal include Jay $100 billion Rail Link. A thought. Weatherill of South Australia, Daniel Andrews On the Monaro Former premier Jeff Kennett said a fully of Victoria and Will Hodgeman of Tasmania. Your Editor is going up into the Monaro for the underground rail system would put Melbourne Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett said Anzac Weekend, a time for reflection on on a par with other world leading cities. If I was the idea had merit while NSW leader Mike Australian History. In doing so he has been premier today I would probably go out and Baird offered cautious support but warned refreshing his knowledge of the early history of borrow $100 billion and I’d build an underground against an increase in overall taxation as per the squatters and before them the Aborigines, rail system which would last for years and The Australian. and the development of the Wool industry and years,” Kennett said.
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