7 June to 19 July 2011 LETTER FROM CANBERRA TASMANIAN VIEWPOINT: GREG BARNS Saving you time. Three years on. After Letter from Melbourne, established 1994. A monthly newsletter distilling public policy and government decisions which affect business opportunities in Australia and beyond. LETTER TheFROM Tasmanian Parliament’s CANBERRA upper house, the Legislative Council, is a unique beast in Australian politics. It is controlled by Independents and its electoral system and cycle Carbon Edition 7 June to 19 July 2011 Issue 35 Letter from Canberra is a monthly newsletterbears distilling no relationship public to thatpolicy of the and lower government house, LETTERthe House decisions FROMof Assembly. that CANBERRA effect business opportunities in Australia and beyond. You only need to be on a trip to miss out on the context of important stories. In a world of wall-to-wallThe information Legislative Council overload, is arguably we have Australia’s been onlysummarizing genuine house the of media review. and In classic Westminster constitutional theory, the upper house is not controlled by the executive and Our missing geOgraphy coffee-shop gossip for 18 years now, alongoperates with Letter to scrutinise from andMelbourne reviews bills.. This is the Tasmanian experience. !"#$%$#"&'()$*($+,-./01#,2)$'")(/1"3$ '/(,-!!"#4)/1 lessOns... Letter)56789:6;$6;<=9;$>?$/8@=6;9$%A?A$BCD$E=$:C@=$@F;$D9BG$@=$G:C$%$C:EF@7H$:C8I5D:CE$69;BJR$UVQW$?>AAH$=9$;SB:I$X5I:;@@;YB<Jim Bacon, Paul people do not know what the debate(s) is/are all about. In The Age, Michelle Grattan wrote that Andrew Peacock, Hope they make it… The National Breast Cancer Foundation seeks a chief Lennon and David Bartlett (1998-2011) all had Legislative Council ‘based’ Treasurers, David Crean and Michael Aird. The prime minister’s speech to the nation on Sunday back in his old electorate of Kooyong, committed a howler The Herald Sun reported that courts cleared the way executive officer [email protected]. when he said that ‘you’d have to be pretty handicapped for 14-year-old Dutch girl Laura Dekker to set sail on July 10, Securing a Clean Energy Future: the Australian Tenders The Legislativenot to appreciate Council that can this block government government is dissolving bills before and her occasionally quest to solo circumnavigate does so. In the July world this and yearbecome it refused to pass a law proposed in the House of The Government wants to know how Australia should Government’s Climate Change Plan, came as she or her Assembly toyour block eyes daily’. canal This estate would have developments been unfortunate in even Tasmania. if the youngest person to do it. The Age reported that Kiwi commemorate the Anzac Centenary. 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will receive a rise, in line with cost of living will make lower and many middle-income the changes but no one will pay more tax. increases. Money will also be allocated to earners better off but make higher-income Single pensioners and self-funded retirees high-polluting industries - such as coal - to earners pay most of the cost of the carbon will get up to $338 extra a year, and couples help them move to cleaner energy practices. tax. The 500 biggest greenhouse gas up to $510. Pensioners will receive lump emitters in Australia will have to pay a tax sum advance payments of up to $250 for WHEN DOES IT START? on their emissions, starting next year at $23 single people in May-June next year, ahead The Labor government will pass the a tonne. Households will be compensated of the scheme’s start on July 1. Families legislation with the support of the Greens - generously at the bottom, not at all at the with two children will receive up to $220 in and the independents, and it will then come top. The firms most at risk will be given extra family tax benefit A, and other families into effect from 1July, 2012. free permits. And several billion dollars will get up to $110 per child. Families on will be spent to cut emissions by changing family tax benefit B will get up to $69 extra. WHAT DOES THE OPPOSITION WANT? technologies. The Coalition would scrap the tax and Opposition leader Tony Abbott said the replace it with a $10 billion direct action Aftermath analysis scheme was ‘socialism masquerading plan. It would clean up the dirtiest power The Age wrote that Julia Gillard had embarked as environmentalism’. He said: ‘This stations; provide financial incentives to the on a massive gamble to sell a carbon price is redistribution pretending to be ‘big polluters’; and invest in reforestation scheme that delivers tax cuts for those on compensation. It’s a tax increase pretending programs and solar and other renewable incomes under $80,000 and leaves almost to be an environmental policy.’ About 500 energy methods. 6 million households better off or fully big polluting companies will pay a carbon compensated, but will cost more than 3 tax starting at $23 and rising to $29 by In Brief: million households money. The government the time emissions trading starts in 2015, > Start date of 1 July 2012 at $23 a tonne promises the plan will transform the according to Treasury estimates. By 2020 > Will apply to around 500 of Australia’s Australian economy, while its Green allies carbon pollution is estimated to be cut by biggest polluters hailed what they called a ‘great green action 160 million tonnes but a large part of this will > $4 billion budget hit until 2015 day’. The Prime Minister boasted she had be achieved by purchasing carbon offsets > $23 a tonne starting price adds 0.7% to knocked down ‘the brick wall’ that had abroad. consumer prices stopped the scheme of her predecessor, > Surprise mew emissions reduction target Kevin Rudd. ‘This is going through, this is The scheme will blow out the budget by of 80% by 2050 done, full stop.’ But business reacted coolly $4.3 billion over four years, but $2.9 billion > But faster emissions growth than Rudd to the plan, despite a $9.2 billion three-year comes this financial year, putting minimum scheme industry compensation package. pressure on the 2012-13 budget when the > $15bn in tax relief and aid to lower and government is determined to return to middle-income earners On average, households will face cost surplus. The government revised its 2050 > Up to 3 million households worse off or increases of $9.90 a week, but will get emission target - from a 60 per cent cut to an break even compensation - delivered through pension 80 per cent cut on 2000 levels. The scheme > Tax rates rise for higher earners to 33% rises, higher family payments and tax cuts will cover about 60 per cent of Australia’s by 2015-16 - of $10.10 a week. More than 4 million emissions, down from 75 per cent under > Vow to maintain household compensation households will be better off and another Rudd’s abandoned 2009 emissions trading will pressure budget 2 million no worse off. About 8 million will proposal - largely a reflection that transport > Petrol exempt for households and small get some compensation. But for a third of has been excluded. business but heavy transport to lose tax households compensation will fall short. credits And one in 10 - about 700,000 households - The creation of an independent Climate > Government hopes to increase support to will get nothing. Most taxpayers on incomes Change Authority headed by former Reserve steel and coal but Greens oppose this under $80,000 will receive a tax cut of Bank chairman Bernie Fraser is to advise it on at least $300 a year. More than a million greenhouse targets and the design of the The simple version people will not have to fill in tax returns, as scheme. Based on a model that recently The Age explained that the carbon tax was the tax-free threshold is more than trebled led to Britain dramatically lifting its target essentially Robin Hood tax reform that to $18,200. Tax rates will actually rise under to cut emissions, the authority will give

3 7 June to 19 July 2011 annual public recommendations on targets quality of our economists rather than on the of exploring possibilities and then obtaining based on an assessment of climate action merits of the argument’. what it wants at the best possible price. in other countries. In a key concession to the Greens, a separate agency will take Steel needs protection The polls are in over management of $3.2 billion in existing The Australian reported that Jennie George, the An Age/Nielsen poll released a week after renewable energy grants programs. former Australian Council of Trade Unions Julia Gillard announced the carbon tax, president and former Labor MP, called for showed that Labor’s two-party vote has The biggest winners the steel industry to be kept out of the carbon fallen a further 2 points, leaving it trailing The Herald Sun reported that biggest winners tax until similar regimes are operating in the Coalition by a massive 39-61 per cent. from the carbon tax will be self-funded competitor countries. She conceded that Over June / July, Tony Abbott has opened an retiree couples with no dependants and a steel could not be protected indefinitely, but 11-point lead as preferred prime minister. combined income of $80,000, split 70/30 that it merited consideration. between them. Thanks to a combination Advertising blitz of tax cuts, pension rises and increased Parliament late to party The Age reported that as part of her Medicare levy thresholds, they will get Julia Gillard stands accused of ignoring campaign to promote the carbon tax, Julia $2289 more from the government, yet they Parliament by not releasing the details of Gillard launched a $12 million taxpayer- face a carbon tax bill of only $501. They her carbon tax in parliament first. The Prime funded advertising blitz. An opposing $10 will end up ahead by $1788 a year. In sharp Minister made a broadcast to the nation million advertising blitz is also expected this contrast, a couple with three young children on Sunday 10 July. Opposition leader Tony week from the Australian Trade and Industry and a single income of $150,000 will get only Abbott demanded Parliament be recalled Alliance, backed by the coal industry and $77 back from the government to help them to debate the carbon tax. ‘This is a Prime the Minerals Council. Perhaps long-time pay an effective carbon tax bill of $785. Minister who is afraid. She is very, very Liberal Party pollster Mark Textor is the They will end up behind by $708 a year. afraid,’ he said. ‘The proper place to debate architect of the ads. the carbon tax is in the ‘people’s house’.’ Model predicts job cuts Heart of darkness The Australian reported that according to an Media view The Australian reported on Julia Gillard’s independent economic modelling forecast, The Age put a column from Tony Wright on venture to the heart of the nation’s coal the carbon tax could force eight black the front page, criticising an apparent sector in the Latrobe Valley to front workers coalmines to close, costing nearly 3,0 0 0 jobs disregard for Parliament when it has come who are probably the most vulnerable to the in regional NSW and more than 1,100 jobs in to carbon tax legislation. He wrote that carbon tax. Hazelwood, targeted by green Queensland in its first three years. The ACIL ‘once upon a time (a long time ago, pre- groups as the nation’s dirtiest coal power Tasman modelling, commissioned by the Howard at least) Australian prime ministers station, produces 25 per cent of Victoria’s Australian Coal Association, projected that announced major policies and decisions electricity. It is regarded as the most likely the number of early mine closures could in the national Parliament. There was even coal station to be closed or converted to gas reach 18 within nine years and result in a name for this grand ritual. It was called by either side of politics. In an event closed Australia forgoing coal sales of $22 billion a ministerial statement, and it allowed to the media, Gillard met 120 workers at from existing mines over the next decade. elected representatives from all sides to the Hazelwood power station. She took put the announcement to the blowtorch. questions on her plan to shut down 2000 US turns its back on tax Such a thing sounds like a fairy story these megawatts of energy from coal-fired power According to the key United States days. Now that prime minister Julia Gillard, stations and replace it with cleaner energy Republican congressman on climate and her committee of allies have finally generation. change, Australia would be embracing reached agreement, you might imagine ‘unilateral economic disarmament’ if it she’d race into that great expensive palace adopted a carbon tax. Congressman Jim of democracy on the hill, armed with all CLIMATE CHANGE. ENVIRONMENT. Sensenbrenner told The Australian that the US the juicy detail, eager to lay it all out in a ENERGY had turned its back on a carbon tax. ministerial statement and to argue the merits of the case. There will be no parliamentary Kiwi flew the coop sitting at all for this long-awaited, massively Coal paints a dark picture The Australian reported that New Zealand ballyhooed event. Indeed, Parliament will be The Financial Review reported that a Productivity prime minister John Key declared his country in its winter hibernation for five weeks after Commission report into international climate will be slowing its expansion of emissions it. regimes would show that seven of Australia’s trading and doesn’t want to ‘lead the world’. top-10 trading partners had adopted major The announcement undermined Julia A better way policies to reduce pollution. Nevertheless, Gillard’s call for Australia to follow the ‘gutsy A letter from Tony Abbott appeared in the the Australian Coal Association launched Kiwi’ lead on carbon pricing, Key visited Herald Sun, in which the opposition leader a pre-emptive strike against the report’s Canberra and addressed both houses of discussed his direct action plan, and its findings. The association released Parliament on 20 June. advantages over a carbon tax. He said that research by the Centre for International in February last year, the Coalition released Economics that showed none of the major Economic attack its direct action policy comprising, at its coal-exporting countries ‘either currently The Age reported that opposition leader Tony core, a fund enabling the government to buy imposes, or has concrete plans to impose, Abbott took aim at the majority of economists the most cost-effective means of reducing a direct or indirect constraint on fugitive who believe a carbon price is the best way emissions through a tender process. Abbott emissions from coalmining’. The Australian to cut emissions. Abbott conceded that claimed that this is a perfectly orthodox Coal Association research was backed by most economists think a carbon tax or an means of utilising the market to obtain an Minerals Council of Australia chief executive emissions trading scheme the best way to outcome. A business that wants a building, Mitch Hooke, who said the same could be go, but ‘maybe that’s a comment on the for instance, might seek expressions of said for the nation’s major competitors in interest and then formal tenders as a means 13 key commodities, such as iron ore, gold,

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nickel and aluminium. He said ‘not one of power generation using a carbon tax are housed at the Australian Institute of Marine Australia’s top four competitors in the 13 ineffectual, too bureaucratic and create Sciences. key commodities has a functioning carbon ‘significant fiscal risks’ for power companies. pricing scheme except Poland, which In a confidential report sent to all energy exempts emissions from the coalmining ministers and the multi-party committee AGRICULTURE. CATTLE. WATER process’. working on the carbon pricing legislation, the Australian Energy Market Commission Camel cull on the cards says that proposals in Garnaut’s electricity Trees and farmland The Australian reported that killing feral sector report for the government could The Weekly Times reported that The camels, early burn-offs, and inoculating threaten the energy market. The report National Farmers’ Federation has found a cattle to stop them burping methane gas by AEMC - an adviser to the Council of disagreement with its two biggest members have been suggested as activities qualifying Australian Governments’ Ministerial Council and most significant financial contributors. for carbon credits under Labor’s proposed on Energy - warned that the proposals to The Victorian Farmers Federation and carbon farming initiative. A consultation provide power stations with government NSW Farmers are not supporting the paper issued by the Department of Climate guarantees could lead to taxpayers footing Government’s Carbon Farming Initiative. Change and Energy Efficiency gives the first the bill for failed generation businesses by They’re reported to be worried that insight into how the federal government will assuming ownership, and could ‘undermine farmland will be lost to trees. But the NFF’s decide what will qualify for carbon permits rather than strengthen the stability of the position is that it ‘broadly’ supports the and what will not. Feral pests are firmly in national electricity market’. CFI and that government should receive the sights. A proposal by Northwest Carbon ‘credit’ for listening to farmers’ concerns to cull the estimated one million feral camels Counter attack and making relevant adjustments. The roaming the outback has made the list. The The Age reported that the federal Nationals, who had recently won a victory company’s plan, first revealed in London’s government’s climate change adviser, over CFI supporter and Liberal climate Financial Times, was based on an agreement Professor Ross Garnaut, professor hit out at change spokesman Greg Hunt, are privately with the Western Australian Department of ‘crude’ and ‘distorted’ reporting of plans unhappy at the NFF’s stance. The NFF Agriculture and Food to develop a market for a carbon tax. He made the comments president, Jock Laurie, says the CFI needs solution to control feral camels. Large while speaking at a conference sponsored to get through because if it fails, there may areas of Western Australia are overrun with by The Australian, the paper owned by Rupert never be a second attempt. the camels, which do enormous damage Murdoch’s News Limited, reserving special to vegetation, and have been known to criticism for his hosts. He contrasted Snowy’s long awaited drink terrorise townships in their search for water. coverage of the carbon debate with ‘the The Weekly Times reported that the NSW Office positive role played by a highly professional, of Water, in consultation with the Snowy Electricity price increases conscientious, committed Australian media’ Scientific Committee, plans to release The Financial Review reported that household during earlier reforms. 84,000 megalitres of the water in just 19 days electricity bills are set to increase up to to mimic the spring surge that once flowed 30 per cent by mid-2013, with the Gillard Germans not amused down the river. The flows are the result of an government’s renewable energy scheme The Age reported that German Clubs in three historic $425 million agreement among the being responsible for 11 per cent of that states cancelled speeches by controversial NSW, Victorian and federal governments to increase. These findings were in a report climate sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton in buy and save 212,000 megalitres of water by the government’s chief energy adviser. protest over his allusion that economist Ross in the Murray-Darling Basin that could The costs of the Renewable Energy Target Garnaut was a Nazi. be returned to the Snowy River. Another - which provides generous subsidies for 70,000 megalitres was recovered to boost rooftop solar schemes and large-scale Grants become independent Murray River environmental flows. projects such as wind farms - will explode The Age revealed that responsibility for by 360 per cent over the three years to 30 handing out about $1 billion in clean energy Qatar buys prime farmland June 2013, as power companies try to meet grants would be taken out of government The Financial Review reported that a large the target of sourcing 20 per cent of their hands, under a compromise with the investment in prime Western District energy from renewable sources by 2020. Greens as part of a carbon price deal. Clean farmland by the Qatar government had The report came as Australia’s biggest energy programs such as the $1.5 billion increased pressure for a toughening of carbon emitters pressed for states that solar flagships program - designed to help Australia’s foreign ownership rules. Amid refuse to wind back costly rooftop solar and build Australia’s first large solar plants - will growing disquiet in the bush over the loss other programs to be penalised in the GST be removed from Energy Minister Martin of national sovereignty, the Greens and carve-up, or to be denied funds under the Ferguson’s control and run by an independent independent senator Nick Xenophon have Commonwealth Grants Commission. The statutory body. called for changes requiring the Treasurer to Australian Industry Greenhouse Network, approve all foreign acquisitions of rural land whose members include BlueScope Steel, Sea change above $5 million. said the case for reform was only growing A media release from federal Innovation Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten said he was and demanded the immediate withdrawal Minister Kim Carr and provided to Letter from aware of angst in some rural communities of Commonwealth and state renewable Canberra announced a new world-class sea but said the Gillard government wanted energy programs that the Productivity simulation facility in that Townsville. It will to examine the scale of foreign ownership Commission found were costing billions of give Australian and overseas scientists a in Australia before deciding if reform was dollars but achieving little. bridge from the sea to the lab, allowing necessary. Qatar-based Hassad Foods, them to undertake world leading research which is the agricultural arm of the Qatar Critical assessment that may help find solutions to protect government, recently agreed to pay about The Australian reported criticism that Ross our tropical regions from climate change. $35 million for more than 8,ooo hectares Garnaut’s proposals to transform coal-fired The $35 million National Sea Simulator is

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by making exporters responsible for the welfare of animals sent for slaughter. The crisis was sparked by graphic television footage aired by Four Corners depicting cattle being treated inhumanely, and almost turned into another animal welfare crisis when a West Australian farmer threatened to shoot his cattle due to the live export ban. Ludwig said the reforms ‘will provide industry with a sustainable long-term future’, and he stood by the decision to ban the trade nine days after the vision was screened. Apples and apples The Weekly Times reported that apple growers will lose 30 per cent of their income as of sheep-grazing and cropping land in Why the ban imports flood the nation. Victoria’s Western District. Outrage broke out over the barbarous A study by consultants CIE on the economic treatment of animals in Indonesian impacts expected from the importation of The purchase is one of the largest slaughterhouses after a report on the apples from New Zealand, China and the acquisitions of Victorian pastoral land in ABC’s Four Corners program highlighting US also predicts that wholesale prices for recent history. Local stock and station mistreatment of exported cattle. The apples will drop 20 per cent. agents estimate that the Qatar government revelations sparked diplomatic tension with paid a premium of up to 20 per cent in Jakarta and forced the Gillard government Bought the farm order to secure the controversial deal, to suspend live animal exports to at least The Australian reported that a Chinese which involved three properties owned 11 abattoirs. Although The Australian reports government-controlled mining giant has by local families and two - Merrimbula that Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig has left spent $213 million buying up 43 farms so it and Brierly homesteads - owned by the open the door to a total ban on imports to can explore for coal outside the New South US-based Westchester Group. Unlike other Indonesian abattoirs, the cattle industry Wales township of Gunnedah. A New South countries including New Zealand, Australian has warned that an overreaction could shut Wales title search revealed that Shenhua governments do not scrutinise or monitor down the $330 million trade and threaten Watermark Coal carried out a two-year overseas acquisitions and ownership of thousands of jobs. The controversy has spending spree in 2009 and 2010, making agricultural land. As government-backed also caused rare consensus in Canberra, some of the sellers instant millionaires. and private companies from the Middle with Nationals leader Warren Truss urging Some of the properties changed hands for East, China and the US continue to buy colleagues to back Labor’s response, 10 times more than their previous sale price. into Australian agriculture, politicians are noting that seasoned cattlemen would have grappling with how to respond without ‘tears in their eyes’ after seeing the ABC Cash flows like water stymieing foreign investment or damaging investigation’s footage. Sholahudin al-Ayubi, A group of former federal Labor MPs trade relations. secretary of the Indonesian Ulema Council, are behind a newly formed agricultural the national clerical organisation, said the firm awarded $32 million under a Gillard Wool prices warm up practices that had been exposed - the government irrigation upgrade. The Age said The Weekly Times reported that Australian wool gouging of cattle’s eyes, slashing with blunt Farming and irrigation industry insiders prices hit a 22-year high at 1,384 cents per knives and the breaking of limbs - were were surprised when a company unknown kilogram. unacceptable under sharia. to them, Irrigation Efficiency Partners Pty Ltd, won the grant in the second round of the Barnaby dams stagnant water Jakarta seeks clarification $300 million On-Farm Irrigation Efficiency policy The Australian reported that Jakarta sought Program in June. Federal Shepparton- The Nationals’ Senate Leader Barnaby Joyce an urgent assurance from Canberra that based Liberal MP Sharman Stone queried the wrote in an opinion piece for The Weekly Times, the latter’s cattle ban does not breach grant. The revelations have also prompted maintaining that ‘the nation must harness international trade laws, as it considers claims of a potential conflict of interest for water resources better if food production is relaxing its health rules and replacing former Keating government parliamentary to increase’. He points out that a major dam Australian cattle with imports from India and secretary Neil O’Keefe with his other role as has not been built in Australia for 20 years, South America. Victoria’s representative on a national water despite huge population growth. authority. Federal Water Minister Tony Burke Desperate times denied the company’s Labor connections Ban delayed The Australian reported that graziers from the had helped it secure government support. He The Financial Review reported that federal west and east, across the Top End of the said he had acted on the recommendations Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig ended a week continent, were stunned by the sudden ban of his department, which had conducted of delays by announcing a total ban on live- on live exports. One reckons he might have an independent, competitive and rigorous cattle exports to Indonesia. Backbenchers to shoot some of his herd if it doesn’t rain, assessment of applications. But senior were still recounting the dramatic caucus to provide more feed for the stranded cattle. irrigation industry figures told The Age they meeting, and the subsequent backlash were surprised by the grant, especially against the minister by 20 backbenchers Export ban lifted given that it was considerably more than forcing the decision. The Australian reported that federal Agriculture given to public bodies such as the Goulburn Minister Joe Ludwig reopened the live cattle Broken Catchment Management Authority, trade to Indonesia, ending a four-week ban which was awarded $25 million.

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Shaping her vision election, and urged a radical rethink on the GOVERNANCE The Australian reported prime minister Julia Labor Party’s principles. In an article for The Gillard’s call to use the resources boom to Weekend Australian co-authored with husband Just a shy girl ‘remake how we experience what it is to Ben - a businessman and former senior The Age covered Julia Gillard’s emotional appeal be Australian’ by permanently extending Labor staffer - Keneally wrote that Labor for the Australian public to understand her, opportunity to the poor and disadvantaged, should stop obsessing about its internal declaring she was ‘the shy girl’ at school as the nation moves to a low-carbon and processes and figure out what it stands and finds it hard to show her feelings when information-rich economy. In coming for. She also declared Labor heavyweights she makes big decisions. Appearing at the months, Labor will announce new policies such as senator John Faulkner and New National Press Club to defend her carbon in the areas of innovation, skills and training, South Wales party boss Sam Dastyari were plan Gillard, looking close to tears, in effect to meet the investment and workforce ‘putting the cart before the horse’ if they admitted the problem she has been having requirements of a nation in transition, where, think internal structural reform can rescue to get her message across and win people’s as the PM said, some regions and industries Labor’s brand. trust. She also urged the media to be more ‘are going to be leaping ahead and others discerning in its reporting of the carbon are at risk of being left behind and suffering Going south debate. ‘Don’t write crap. Can’t be that dislocation’. The Gillard government will The Australian reported that Tasmania’s hard,’ she said. ‘And when you have written also introduce measures to help export Labor-Green government would adopt complete crap, then I think you should industries battered by a high Australian sweeping austerity measures to head-off correct it.’ She won the support of former dollar, particularly manufacturing, to a crippling budget crisis. During mid-June, prime minister Paul Keating, who compared become more sustainable in the long term. Premier and Treasurer Lara Giddings, handing the carbon tax with some of the biggest In an interview with The Australian on the eve down her first budget within six months of reforms of the Hawke-Keating era such as of her first anniversary as Prime Minister, Ms taking the Labor leadership, detailed $1.4 floating the dollar, reducing tariffs, Medicare Gillard made her strongest statements yet billion in cuts to frontline health, education and compulsory superannuation. about her economic and social vision for a and policing. The cuts included school nation on the cusp of historic changes. closures and axing up to 1,700 public Wood for the trees servants and 100 police. ‘If we don’t take The Australian reported that Greens leader The right move? strong action, we will be in a budget crisis,’ Bob Brown was accused of impropriety The Financial Review reported that the NSW Ms Giddings said. She accepted that Labor, after asking questions about the sale of a Labor Right would attempt to win back which governs in a coalition with the Greens timber mill which his party’s biggest donor working-class voters in the suburbs following the election of a hung parliament is hoping to buy, without disclosing the link by trailing community participation in in March last year, would face a community between them. Graeme Wood, founder of preselections, ahead of the 2015 state backlash. online travel giant Wotif, gave $1.6 million election. Candidates in five key seats for the to fund the Greens’ television advertising next state election would be preselected Seeing through the smoke campaign for last year’s election, the largest using a US-style primaries system under a The Financial Review reported that the recorded political donation in Australian ‘Trial of Community Selection Ballots’, part Australian Labor Party has continued to history. Wood is part of a consortium that of the Right faction’s draft rule changes seek political donations of up to $102,000 wants to buy the Triabunna woodchip for the party. Under the draft guidelines from a major tobacco company, despite a mill, put up for sale by the cash-strapped for the preselection process, potential ban. The embarrassing revelation came timber company Gunns, and convert it to preselectors must sign a declaration that in the same week during federal Health a tourism centre. Brown asked Forests they are Labor supporters, not members of Minister Nicola Roxon was forced to apologise Minister Joe Ludwig to ensure ‘no money any other political party, and willing to assist for sending a fundraising request to the from the forest agreement process flows to the candidate at the election. same company in 2005, a year after Labor the logging entities’ which are bidding for banned tobacco company donations. See the Triabunna mill, but did not disclose his Steep dissent out ‘Health’ section for details. party’s donor’s interest. The opposition’s The Age reported that on 15 June, Julia Gillard Leader in the Senate, Eric Abetz, attacked failed to silence dissent on her backbench, Brown for ‘shameless advocacy’ on behalf with Labor Left faction figure Doug Cameron of his biggest donor. rejecting her demand for MPs to confine Come to manChester in early criticism of policy decisions to caucus About the house meetings. oCtober The regular House of Representatives Accompany a regular visitor to the update on page 2 of The Australian contained Land oh! a number of items of note during the past The Australian reported that the Independent Conservative and Labor annual month. A new report, Doing Time – Time for Doing, Commission Against Corruption was conferences and observe for your- is to be tabled by the House’s Aboriginal looking into the circumstances under self how alongside the politics, the and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Committee which the former New South Wales Labor clever public policy minds of Brit- on 20 June. The committee has been government bought Currawong, in Sydney’s ain, Europe and elsewhere, are ex- inquiring into the high level of involvement Pittwater region, when it was in caretaker posed and challenged in a range of of indigenous youth in the criminal justice mode before the 26 March election. The site 500 events, large and small. Bring system. The Climate Change, Environment was a workers’ retreat, formerly owned by some ideas back home. and the Arts, Committee will investigate Unions New South Wales. Australia’s biodiversity in a changing climate in relation to nationally important Keneally speaks up Call Alistair Urquhart on ecosystems. The scope of the inquiry The Australian reported that former New 03 9654 1300 encompasses terrestrial, marine and South Wales premier Kristina Keneally has freshwater biodiversity. broken her silence since the 26 March state

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ALP bite the hand offering the voters’. Stockdale is embroiled population expected to top nine billion by The Age reported that mining and tobacco in a ‘brawl’ with challenger Peter Reith, with around 2045 - it would cancel out less than companies would have their influence in the two arguing over party reform. 10 per cent of the warming predicted for this federal elections stymied under a Labor century from continuing to burn fossil fuels. proposal to reform how political parties and Watermelons elections are funded and run. The Australian The Herald Sun reported that some Victorian New whip Labor Party wants the role of lobby groups politicians had branded the Greens a party David Bushby, the senator who catcalled at and industry bodies to be scrutinised and of radical communists or ‘watermelons’. Finance Minister Penny Wong, was beaten limited during campaigns, suggesting The term is used to describe something that by one vote for the position of opposition groups register with the Australian Electoral is green on the outside and ‘communist red’ Senate whip. Victorian Helen Kroger won Commission and caps placed on their on the inside. From July, the Greens will hold the post 14-13. Senator Kroger will use her expenditure. the balance of power in the Senate, allowing position to argue that she should be number them to make or break some reform laws if two on the Victorian Senate ticket, ahead of the main parties don’t agree. In Parliament, parliamentary secretary Scott Ryan. Much COALITION DOINGS Melbourne Ports Labor MP Michael Danby was made of the Bushby catcall incident by warned the ‘watermelon’ faction of the the government. Three weeks later, a Labor Greens that it must reject extremism. MP made the same noise directed at Julie False friends Victorian Liberal senator Helen Kroger, also Bishop. Much political noise and fuss. The Herald Sun said Liberal Senator Judith speaking in Parliament, went a step further. Troeth had reflected on the ‘betrayal of false ‘There’s a stale smell wafting at the Senate Modest members friends’ in a final speech after 18 years in doors - it’s called radical communism’. The Australian reported that treasurer Peter Federal Parliament. Senator Troeth, one Costello and former senior minister Nick of the Liberal Party’s strongest advocates Reith grief Minchin are the patrons of a ginger group for refugees, also lamented that ‘every The Australian reported that former Howard of opposition MPs that has been set up to possible barrier’ was being put in the way government minister Peter Reith called for a try to ensure the Coalition does not desert of boat people wanting a better life. ‘Today, greater role for ordinary Liberal members, rational economic policy. The revival of unfortunately, it seems that every possible including direct election of the party’s the Society of Modest Members - a group barrier is put in the way of asylum seekers president by the rank and file. Reith made that in the 1980s spearheaded the push and refugees who come to Australia seeking an unsuccessful bid for the position of party for dry economic policy in the Liberals - protection from prosecution, the fulfilment president in June, losing to incumbent Alan was launched by a former minister, Jim of their human rights, and ultimately a Stockdale by just one vote. Carlton, a member of the original group. better quality of life in a free and democratic The launch came as outspoken Liberal society’. The truth on trees backbencher Alby Schultz confronted Tony The Australian reported on a study that Abbott in the Liberal party meeting yesterday, Federal presidency concludes that the planting of trees will make complaining about the Nationals getting too The Age reported that Liberal Party very little difference to global warming, even much say and the leader’s office muzzling presidency incumbent Alan Stockdale has if done on a vast scale, and in some places MPs. The Society of Modest Members is appealed to party members to ‘please, it could worsen the problem. Tree-planting chaired by Tasmanian Liberal senator David please, please behave like adults, act in is a key plank in Tony Abbott’s climate policy. Bushby, with Victorian Liberal Kelly O’Dwyer his the interests of our party and stop leaking’. The Canadian study, published in the journal deputy. The group originally took its name Former Victorian Treasurer Stockdale Nature Geoscience, casts doubt on schemes from the ‘Modest Member’ column written said that the Liberal party ‘does not need under which governments, businesses and by the late Bert Kelly, an MP who championed a media star as its federal president, individuals seek to offset their emissions by lower tariffs and other economic rationalist especially if his attraction to the media paying for trees to be planted to absorb an policies. is that they can present him as being the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. If half champion of policies that are different the world’s cropland were planted with trees from those our elected representatives are - an impossible scenario with the global

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ALP bite the hand offering the voters’. Stockdale is embroiled population expected to top nine billion by backing its plans, but refuses to release it up an industrial campaign for better work Before viewing the Reactor respondents were asked for their views on Global Warming: 44% of respondents The Age reported that mining and tobacco in a ‘brawl’ with challenger Peter Reith, with around 2045 - it would cancel out less than JUSTICE ‘in line with long-standing protocols’. But agreements. Quarantine and Department companies would have their influence in the two arguing over party reform. 10 per cent of the warming predicted for this said of Global Warming – ‘If we don’t actdocuments now it will obtainedbe too late’ through, 43% said Freedom ‘Concerns of are Agriculture exaggerated’ staff , voted10% overwhelmingly federal elections stymied under a Labor century from continuing to burn fossil fuels. Currencysaid ‘It scandalis already too late’ and 3% couldn’tof say. 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The Australian The Herald Sun reported that some Victorian New whip Bankincrease currency of firms 9%, 38%and (downsix of their 6%) former saying ‘Ifcabinet we don’t minister act now - haveit will concerns be too late,’ about 7% (downare determined 3%) saying to ‘It fight is for a better deal,’ Labor Party wants the role of lobby groups politicians had brandedArticle the No. Greens 1393 a party David Bushby, the senator who catcalled at senioralready managers too late’ have and 3% been couldn’t accused say. plain packaging. Health Minister Nicola said Community and Public Sector Union and industry bodies to be scrutinised and of Available radical communists on Website: or www.roymorgan.com ‘watermelons’. Finance Minister Penny Wong, was beaten by Australian prosecutors of funnelling Roxon herself admitted this week that there national secretary Nadine Flood. The union limited during campaigns, suggesting The term is used to describe something that by one vote for the position of opposition multimillion-dollarThe changes demonstrated bribes to government by this question is no definitively proof the moveback upwill thecut viewsmoking of respondents rates has that applied Lord to Monckton Fair Work Australia to allow groups register with the Australian Electoral is green on the outsideOn July and ‘communist 20, 2011 red’ Senate whip. Victorian Helen Kroger won officialswon in the Indonesia, debate – 9%Malaysia of respondents and Vietnam viewingbecause the no Reactor government shifte hasd theirdone opinionit before, towardsimmigration the point and of customsview staff to take Commission and caps placed on their on the inside.Roy From Morgan July, the GreensOnline will Store hold the post 14-13. Senator Kroger will use her to winLord banknote Monckton deals. expressed. Police in Australia, yet proof is the key. Opposition Leader Tony protected industrial action from 1 July. expenditure. the balance of power in the Senate, allowing position to argue that she should be number Asia and Europe have laid bribery charges Abbott has backed the plan. Flood said that any strikes would hit airports them to make or break some reform laws if two on the Victorian Senate ticket, ahead of against Securency and Note PrintingLord Monckton persuades 9% more to believe and seaports nationwide. ‘We’d prefer to the main parties don’t agree. In Parliament, parliamentary secretary Scott Ryan. Much Australia - plastic banknote design and‘Concerns Advertising about Global intentions Warming are exaggerated’resolve these issues without taking action, COALITION DOINGS Melbourne Ports Labor MP Michael Danby was made of the Bushby catcall incident by printing firms that are, respectively, half British American Tobacco Limited ran but the ball is now in the employers’ court.’ warned the ‘watermelon’ faction of the the government. Three weeks later, a Labor owned and fully owned and overseenWhich by ofadvertisements the following is closest critical to ofyour proposedview about Greens that it must reject extremism. MP made the same noise directed at Julie the RBA. The paper also revealed thatGlobal the Warming?plain packaging laws that would virtually Union birthday False friends Victorian Liberal senator Helen Kroger, also Bishop. 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The to revivalDr. of senior sales executive from Note Printing millions’ in legal fees, for defending an ‘idea Australia’s retail giants expressed criticism unfortunately,Denniss, it seems while that ALPevery and possible particularly including Greens direct supporters election reacted of thepositively party’s to Dr.the Denniss Society andof Modest negatively Members to Lord - a group Australia, the second RBA banknote unproven anywhere in the world’. of the government’s workplace regime. barrier is put in the way of asylum seekers president by the rank and file. Reith made that in the 1980s spearheaded the push company accused of bribing overseas They warned that it is damaging a key part Monckton. However, as shown by the white line below, the Reactor spent more time in ‘positive territory’ when Dr. 3 and refugeesDenniss who come was to talking Australia than seeking when Lordan unsuccessful Monckton was. bid for the position of party for dry economic policy in the Liberals - officials.Michele Others Levine, include Chief six VictoriansExecutive and Officer Roy Morgan Research says: of the economy and leading to excessive protection from prosecution, the fulfilment president in June, losing to incumbent Alan was launched by a former minister, Jim two Malaysians. The Age wrote that now a INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. wage costs that could trigger job losses. of their humanWhen rights, asked after and ultimatelyviewing the a ReactorStockdale to nominate by just one a winner vote. of the debate, moreCarlton respondents, a member (49%) of nominated the original Lord group. Vietnamese“The colonel results was of alsoRoy suspectedMorgan’s of Reactor on yesterday’sEMPLOYMENT debate between Lord Christopher Monckton and better qualityMonckton of life in a freeas the and winner democratic ahead of Dr. Denniss (37%) and 14% couldn’t say. The launch came as outspoken Liberal playing aDr. key Richard role and Dennissis being investigated provides a valuable insight into how Australians are viewingAbbott the and complex Reith debate society’. The truth on trees backbencher Alby Schultz confronted Tony by the Vietnamesesurrounding governemnt. Global Warming, The Age Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide and the CarbonThe FinancialTax. Review reported that Tony Abbott The Australian reported on a study that Abbott in the Liberal party meeting yesterday, also reported that the banknote firms are Reform choices had conceded to pressure from fellow Federal presidency concludes that the planting of trees will make complaining about the Nationals getting too suspected“Roy of attemptingMorgan Research to bribe data former has shownThe Age continually reported that Victorian Australians Liberal areJosh concerned Liberal aboutPeter GlobalReith to abandon his low- The Age reported that Liberal Party very little difference to global warming, even much say and the leader’s office muzzling MalaysianWarming prime ministerand Climate Abdullah Change Badawi but Frydenberg’sdo not want call the on proposed 15 June Carbonto employers, Tax; andkey that approach the issue tois industrialhighly relations. The presidency incumbent Alan Stockdale has if done on a vast scale, and in some places MPs. The Society of Modest Members is in order topolitically get his help divided. to win a $31 million workers and industry groups to speak out opposition leader promised that he would appealed to party members to ‘please, it could worsen the problem. Tree-planting chaired by Tasmanian Liberal senator David currency contract. for reform of Labor’s industrial relations take a ‘strong and effective’ policy to the please, please behave like adults, act in is a key plank in Tony Abbott’s climate policy. Bushby, with Victorian Liberal Kelly O’Dwyer his “This special research combines real-laws.time Frydenberg response is– ‘how among much those do inyou the agree next or election.disagree The with promise what thecame just hours the interests of our party and stop leaking’. The Canadian study, published in the journal deputy. The group originally took its name Tobaccospeaker battle islights saying’; up with ‘pre- and post-Liberal measures Party who of environmental are pressing forattitudes.’ the afterThis Reith,shows aclearly former that workplace the relations Former Victorian Treasurer Stockdale Nature Geoscience, casts doubt on schemes from the ‘Modest Member’ column written The Australianelectorate reported is delicately that tobacco poised giant on thisCoalition issue – to ‘concer promisen about to change the environment; Labor’s minister but much in the more Howard worried government, publicly said that the Liberal party ‘does not need under which governments, businesses and by the late Bert Kelly, an MP who championed Philip Morrisabout hasthe economy, launched and legal the action Carbon laws. Tax. They face the reluctance of opposition berated Abbott for dragging his feet on the a media star as its federal president, individuals seek to offset their emissions by lower tariffs and other economic rationalist aimed at forcing the Gillard government leader Tony Abbott, who is worried about the issue. Last year Abbott famously declared “Each speaker clearly outlined their point of view – and for the most part the Reactor showed this especially if his attraction to the media paying for trees to be planted to absorb an policies. to back down on its plain-packaging prospect of Labor successfully raising the Workchoices ‘dead, buried and cremated’ is that they can present him as being the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. If half legislationappealed or face along a compensation party lines. bill However, of spectre a clear of WorkChoices. difference between the speakers andwas promisedthat Lord ifMonckton he became PM there talked extensively about the climate science and quoted figures about changes in the climate over past championFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE of policies that are different the world’s cropland were planted with trees ‘billions of dollars’. In an escalation of the would be no change to workplace laws from those our elected representatives are - an impossible scenario with the global tobacco time industry’s periods campaign provided against by scientists the Minerswhilst Dr. digging Denniss in concentrated more heavilyin his on first the term. economic He has and since said that if laws, whichpolitical to date implications has been in confined Australia Thefrom Australian taking actionreported on Global that the Warming. mining business wants change, it will have to make to lobbying “Listening and advertising, to Lord PhilipMonckton Morris – he industrysays what had many opened Australians a new frontwant into hear its –the ‘Don’t case. worry Tensions about between Reith and wants to prevent the Australian government battles with the government, setting up a Abbott erupted after the opposition leader setting aClimate precedent Change! that could It will be adoptedbe alright!” fighting fund to finance court challenges frustrated Reith’s bid for the Liberal federal by governmentsThis special around Roy Morgan the world. Reactor surveyagainst covered rulings an Australia-wide by Fair Work cross-sectionAustralia. The of 218presidency. respondents The agedAge’s Ben14+. Schneiders wrote For a closer look at the Reactor and how Australianthe different Mines points and expressed Metals Association,by Lord Monckton a one-page and Dr. spreadDenniss on were Reith’s success at At whatreceived cost? by those reacting to the debate, pleasewhich wasview athe key full player Reactor in thehighlights industry’s here: putting industrial relations reform back on EXCLUSIVELY $100K+ Christian Kerr at The Financial Review warned successful campaign to stop the Rudd the map. He quoted Adelaide University that http://onlinereactor.com.au/PlayerCI.aspx?jid=92&h=crnbqkkkuq%0D%0D plain tobacco packaging could prove government from introducing the resource Professor Andrew Stewart, who claims that a costly mistake. He wrote that For if thecomments super-profits or further tax, detail, has turned please its contact focus to: the ‘Fair Work Act’ has put IR back to where JOBS AND TALENT proposals succeed, they would spark a industrial relations, revealing that it will it was for most of John Howard’s leadership. series of similar strikes against Michele smoking Levine:seek $500,000 [email protected] from its members to finance across the globe. But if the tobaccoOffice +61challenges 3 9224 5215 to a growing Mobile number +61 411 of tribunal129 093 Start small www.sixfigures.com.au companies’ challenge that the laws rob them decisions that are ‘adverse’ to the interests The Age reported that small business would of their intellectual property - brandsGary and Morgan: of employers. [email protected] be the focus of the Coalition’s workplace trademarks - in violation of the Australian Office +61 3 9224 5213 Mobile +61 411 129 094 relations policy. The opposition’s spokesman Constitution and international trade treaties, Action in every port Eric Abetz cited rising unfair dismissal claims is successful,401 taxpayers Collins Street, could Melbourne, be left with Victoria, The 3000 Herald – SunGPO reported Box 2282U, airports Melbourne, and seaports Victoria, 3001,and Australia employers being forced to pay ‘go The crucial issue at the heart of the debate is whether either speaker managed to considerably shift the views of a Tel: compensation (03) 9629 6888 bill Fax: in (03) the 9629 billions. 1250 The (03) 9224could 5387 be Email: adversely [email protected] affected during July Website: away www.roymorgan.com money’ as significant problems with respondents reacting to the debate. Did either Lord Monckton or Dr. Denniss change the views of how ordinary government says itOffices has robust also in: legal Sydney, advice Brisbane, as customsAdelaide, Perth, and quarantine Canberra, London, officers Auckland, ramp andLabor’s USA Fair Work laws. He said the unfair Australians view the issue of Global Warming?

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ALP bite the hand offering the voters’. Stockdale is embroiled population expected to top nine billion by backing its plans, but refuses to release it up an industrial campaign for better work Before viewing the Reactor respondents were asked for their views on Global Warming: 44% of respondents The Age reported that mining and tobacco in a ‘brawl’ with challenger Peter Reith, with around 2045 - it would cancel out less than JUSTICE ‘in line with long-standing protocols’. But agreements. Quarantine and Department companies would have their influence in the two arguing over party reform. 10 per cent of the warming predicted for this said of Global Warming – ‘If we don’t actdocuments now it will obtainedbe too late’ through, 43% said Freedom ‘Concerns of are Agriculture exaggerated’ staff , voted10% overwhelmingly federal elections stymied under a Labor century from continuing to burn fossil fuels. Currencysaid ‘It scandalis already too late’ and 3% couldn’tof say. Information requests showed that to reject the federal government’s latest Roy Morgan Research Pty. Ltd. After viewing the Reactor these views had shifted with 52% now saying ‘Concerns are exaggerated’ – an proposal to reform how political parties andA.B.N. Watermelons 91 007 092 944 – Quality System Certified to AS/NZS ISO 9001 The Financial Review reported that two Reserve government bureaucrats - and even one offer in enterprise bargaining talks. ‘They elections are funded and run. The Australian The Herald Sun reported that some Victorian New whip Bankincrease currency of firms 9%, 38%and (downsix of their 6%) former saying ‘Ifcabinet we don’t minister act now - haveit will concerns be too late,’ about 7% (downare determined 3%) saying to ‘It fight is for a better deal,’ Labor Party wants the role of lobby groups politicians had brandedArticle the No. Greens 1393 a party David Bushby, the senator who catcalled at senioralready managers too late’ have and 3% been couldn’t accused say. plain packaging. Health Minister Nicola said Community and Public Sector Union and industry bodies to be scrutinised and of Available radical communists on Website: or www.roymorgan.com ‘watermelons’. Finance Minister Penny Wong, was beaten by Australian prosecutors of funnelling Roxon herself admitted this week that there national secretary Nadine Flood. The union limited during campaigns, suggesting The term is used to describe something that by one vote for the position of opposition multimillion-dollarThe changes demonstrated bribes to government by this question is no definitively proof the moveback upwill thecut viewsmoking of respondents rates has that applied Lord to Monckton Fair Work Australia to allow groups register with the Australian Electoral is green on the outsideOn July and ‘communist 20, 2011 red’ Senate whip. Victorian Helen Kroger won officialswon in the Indonesia, debate – 9%Malaysia of respondents and Vietnam viewingbecause the no Reactor government shifte hasd theirdone opinionit before, towardsimmigration the point and of customsview staff to take Commission and caps placed on their on the inside.Roy From Morgan July, the GreensOnline will Store hold the post 14-13. Senator Kroger will use her to winLord banknote Monckton deals. expressed. Police in Australia, yet proof is the key. Opposition Leader Tony protected industrial action from 1 July. expenditure. the balance of power in the Senate, allowing position to argue that she should be number Asia and Europe have laid bribery charges Abbott has backed the plan. Flood said that any strikes would hit airports them to make or break some reform laws if two on the Victorian Senate ticket, ahead of against Securency and Note PrintingLord Monckton persuades 9% more to believe and seaports nationwide. ‘We’d prefer to the main parties don’t agree. In Parliament, parliamentary secretary Scott Ryan. Much Australia - plastic banknote design and‘Concerns Advertising about Global intentions Warming are exaggerated’resolve these issues without taking action, COALITION DOINGS Melbourne Ports Labor MP Michael Danby was made of the Bushby catcall incident by printing firms that are, respectively, half British American Tobacco Limited ran but the ball is now in the employers’ court.’ warned the ‘watermelon’ faction of the the government. Three weeks later, a Labor owned and fully owned and overseenWhich by ofadvertisements the following is closest critical to ofyour proposedview about Greens that it must reject extremism. MP made the same noise directed at Julie the RBA. The paper also revealed thatGlobal the Warming?plain packaging laws that would virtually Union birthday False friends Victorian Liberal senator Helen Kroger, also Bishop. Much political noise and fuss. federal police investigated an Austrade banish logos, brandBefore images,After colours National Secretary of the Australian Debate Debate Change The Herald SunLord said Liberal Monckton Senator Judith wins speakingPress inClub Parliament, debate went a andstep further. persuaded 9% more Australians commissioner, who is still serving in and promotional text from packs. It Workers Union, Paul Howes, wrote a practical Troeth had reflected on the ‘betrayal of false ‘There’s a stale smell wafting at the Senate Modest members Asia, after uncovering informationConcerns about are exaggeratedargued that ‘no company43% would52% stand+9% and potted history of his organisation th friends’ in a final speechto his after view 18 years that in ‘Concernsdoors - it’s called about radical communism’. Global WarmingThe Australian are reportedexaggerated’ that treasurer Peter Austrade’s role in assisting banknoteIf we don’t firm act nowfor it will having be too late its brands44% taken38% away’ -6% and in The Australian to mark the Union’s 125

Federal Parliament. Senator Troeth, one Costello and former senior minister Nick Securency International to provideIt overseas is already too latethat the move ‘may 10% infringe 7% international-3% anniversary this June. of the LiberalDespite Party’s negative strongest publicity advocates surrounding Reith grief Lord Monckton’s visit to Australia,Minchin the results are the of patrons a special of Roy a ginger Morgan group travel for Vietnamese officials. Several law trademark and intellectual property Can’t say 3% 3% - for refugees,Reactor also lamentedtest over the that last ‘every 24 hoursThe showAustralian Lord reported Monckton that former won the Howard debate andof opposition persuaded MPs a substantial that has been 9% set of up to arrests have been made, including dramatic law’. The advertisements suggests that Retailers on IR possible barrier’Australians was being to hisput viewin the that way ‘Concerns government about minister Global Peter Warming Reith called are for exaggerated’. a try to ensure the Coalition does not desert apprehension of Christian Boilott, Total a former the government may100% end up100% ‘spending The Financial Review reported that three of of boat peoplePeople wanting reacted a better along life. party ‘Today, lines withgreater L-NP role supporters for ordinary reacting Liberal positively members, to Lorationalrd Monckton economic and negatively policy. The to revivalDr. of senior sales executive from Note Printing millions’ in legal fees, for defending an ‘idea Australia’s retail giants expressed criticism unfortunately,Denniss, it seems while that ALPevery and possible particularly including Greens direct supporters election reacted of thepositively party’s to Dr.the Denniss Society andof Modest negatively Members to Lord - a group Australia, the second RBA banknote unproven anywhere in the world’. of the government’s workplace regime. barrier is put in the way of asylum seekers president by the rank and file. Reith made that in the 1980s spearheaded the push company accused of bribing overseas They warned that it is damaging a key part Monckton. However, as shown by the white line below, the Reactor spent more time in ‘positive territory’ when Dr. 3 and refugeesDenniss who come was to talking Australia than seeking when Lordan unsuccessful Monckton was. bid for the position of party for dry economic policy in the Liberals - officials.Michele Others Levine, include Chief six VictoriansExecutive and Officer Roy Morgan Research says: of the economy and leading to excessive protection from prosecution, the fulfilment president in June, losing to incumbent Alan was launched by a former minister, Jim two Malaysians. The Age wrote that now a INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. wage costs that could trigger job losses. of their humanWhen rights, asked after and ultimatelyviewing the a ReactorStockdale to nominate by just one a winner vote. of the debate, moreCarlton respondents, a member (49%) of nominated the original Lord group. Vietnamese“The colonel results was of alsoRoy suspectedMorgan’s of Reactor on yesterday’sEMPLOYMENT debate between Lord Christopher Monckton and better qualityMonckton of life in a freeas the and winner democratic ahead of Dr. Denniss (37%) and 14% couldn’t say. The launch came as outspoken Liberal playing aDr. key Richard role and Dennissis being investigated provides a valuable insight into how Australians are viewingAbbott the and complex Reith debate society’. The truth on trees backbencher Alby Schultz confronted Tony by the Vietnamesesurrounding governemnt. Global Warming, The Age Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide and the CarbonThe FinancialTax. Review reported that Tony Abbott The Australian reported on a study that Abbott in the Liberal party meeting yesterday, also reported that the banknote firms are Reform choices had conceded to pressure from fellow Federal presidency concludes that the planting of trees will make complaining about the Nationals getting too suspected“Roy of attemptingMorgan Research to bribe data former has shownThe Age continually reported that Victorian Australians Liberal areJosh concerned Liberal aboutPeter GlobalReith to abandon his low- The Age reported that Liberal Party very little difference to global warming, even much say and the leader’s office muzzling MalaysianWarming prime ministerand Climate Abdullah Change Badawi but Frydenberg’sdo not want call the on proposed 15 June Carbonto employers, Tax; andkey that approach the issue tois industrialhighly relations. The presidency incumbent Alan Stockdale has if done on a vast scale, and in some places MPs. The Society of Modest Members is in order topolitically get his help divided. to win a $31 million workers and industry groups to speak out opposition leader promised that he would appealed to party members to ‘please, it could worsen the problem. Tree-planting chaired by Tasmanian Liberal senator David currency contract. for reform of Labor’s industrial relations take a ‘strong and effective’ policy to the please, please behave like adults, act in is a key plank in Tony Abbott’s climate policy. Bushby, with Victorian Liberal Kelly O’Dwyer his “This special research combines real-laws.time Frydenberg response is– ‘how among much those do inyou the agree next or election.disagree The with promise what thecame just hours the interests of our party and stop leaking’. The Canadian study, published in the journal deputy. 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They face the reluctance of opposition berated Abbott for dragging his feet on the a media star as its federal president, individuals seek to offset their emissions by lower tariffs and other economic rationalist aimed at forcing the Gillard government leader Tony Abbott, who is worried about the issue. Last year Abbott famously declared “Each speaker clearly outlined their point of view – and for the most part the Reactor showed this especially if his attraction to the media paying for trees to be planted to absorb an policies. to back down on its plain-packaging prospect of Labor successfully raising the Workchoices ‘dead, buried and cremated’ is that they can present him as being the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide. 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The opposition’s spokesman Constitution and international trade treaties, Action in every port Eric Abetz cited rising unfair dismissal claims is successful,401 taxpayers Collins Street, could Melbourne, be left with Victoria, The 3000 Herald – SunGPO reported Box 2282U, airports Melbourne, and seaports Victoria, 3001,and Australia employers being forced to pay ‘go The crucial issue at the heart of the debate is whether either speaker managed to considerably shift the views of a Tel: compensation (03) 9629 6888 bill Fax: in (03) the 9629 billions. 1250 The (03) 9224could 5387 be Email: adversely [email protected] affected during July Website: away www.roymorgan.com money’ as significant problems with respondents reacting to the debate. 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Victorian Helen Kroger won governmentofficials in Indonesia, intends Malaysia to and transfer Vietnam because no government has done it before, BskyBimmigration in the United-Kingdom, and customs staff a move to that take Commission and caps placed on their on the inside. From July, the Greens will hold the post 14-13. Senator Kroger will use her unaccompaniedto win banknote deals. child Police asylum-seekers in Australia, yet proof is the key. Opposition Leader Tony wouldprotected have industrial made him action Britain’s from dominant 1 July. expenditure.MOST AUSTRALIANS (62%)the balance SAY ofCARBON power in the Senate,TAX WILLallowing HAVEposition NO to argue IMPACT that she should ON beGLOBAL number toAsia Malaysia, and EuropeL-NP as a have deterrent (60.5%) laid bribery to stop RECORD charges their Abbott LEAD has backed OVER the plan. ALP (39.5%).mediaFlood FIRST proprietor.said that POLL any The strikes Age AFTERdescribed would hit Britain’s airports CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONthem to Smake & 75% or break DON’T some reform WANT laws if CARBON two on the PRICEVictorian Senate TO GOticket, HIGHER ahead of parentsagainst sending SecurencyPRIME them to andMINISTER Australia Note by Printing boat. GILLARD ANNOUNCES DETAILSresponseand seaports OF to theCARBON nationwide. news that ‘We’d mediaTAX prefer phone to the main parties don’t agree. In Parliament, parliamentary secretary Scott Ryan. 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The Morgan Poll also Greensasked Australians that it must whether reject they extremism. agreed or MPdisagreed made the wi thsame a number noise directed of statements at Julie inthe Australia’s RBA.13/14, The paper asylum-seeker2011 alsoshows revealed the deal L-NP that with the 60.5% plain with packaging a record lawswinning that wouldlead over virtually the ALPdevelopments,Union 39.5% birthday - the on worst 16 July Two-Party Rebekah Brooks False friendsmade about the Gillard Government’sVictorian proposed Liberal senator Carbon Helen Tax. Kroger It found:, also Bishop. Much political noise and fuss. Kualafederal Lumpur. preferred police However, investigated voting the result minister an Austrade for later Labor banishsince the logos, first Roy brand Morgan images, Gallup colours Poll resignedconductedNational as Secretary in chiefMay 1942. executive of the of Australian News The Herald Sun• said Liberal Senator Judith speaking in Parliament, went a step further. softenedcommissioner, his stance, who saying is still that servingdecisions in and promotional text from packs. It International.Workers Union, The Paul next Howes day she, wrote was a arrested practical A majority of Australians (62%) agree that ‘The Carbon Tax will have no significant impact on reducing the total The L-NP primary vote is 52.5%, nearly double the ALP 27.5%. Support for the minor parties shows the Greens Troeth had reflectedworld-wide on the ‘betrayal volume of falseof carbon ‘There’s dioxide a stale put intosmell the wafting atmosphere’ at the Senate (34% disagree).Modest members wouldAsia, be after made uncovering on a case-by-case information basis. about argued that ‘no company would stand byand police potted on history suspicion of of his conspiring organisation to friends’ in a final speech after 18 years in doors - it’s called radical communism’. The Australian reported that treasurer Peter Austrade’s10.5% role and in assisting Others/ banknoteIndependents firm 9.5%.for having its brands taken away’ and interceptin The Australian communications to mark andthe onUnion’s suspicion 125th • An overwhelming majority of Australians (75%) disagree that ‘The $23 a tonne carbon price should be higher’ Federal Parliament. Senator Troeth, one Costello and former senior minister Nick MalaysiaSecurencyIf doubtsa International Federal election to provide were overseas held todaythat the the L-NP move would ‘may infringe win in internationala landslide accordingofanniversary corruption to this allegations,today’s June. Morgan and subsequently Poll. of the Liberal Party’swhile strongest only 15% advocates agree that it should be higher. Minchin are the patrons of a ginger group Thetravel Age reported for Vietnamese that the head officials. of the United Several law trademark and intellectual property bailed to appear in October. 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The revival of thesenior Gillard sales government’s executive fromproposed Note refugee Printing millions’and the in decline legal fees,of consumer for defending spending an ‘ideaat TheAustralia’s Australian retail reported giants that expressed prime ministercriticism • Australians are divided on whether ‘The Carbon Tax is a good first step towards a market-based price on carbon’ unfortunately, it seems that every possible including direct election of the party’s the Society of Modest Members - a group swapAustralia, withThe Malaysia. the latest second UNweekly High RBA CommissionerRoy banknoteMorgan Consumerunprovenother large anywhereConfidence retailers. in the Rating world’. for the weekendJuliaof theGillard of government’sJuly is 9/10, under 2011, increasing workplace was 110.5, pressure regime. barrier is put in the(49% way ofdisagree asylum cf. seekers 45% agree). president by the rank and file. 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backing its plans, but refuses to release it up an industrial campaign for better work JUSTICE ‘in line with long-standing protocols’. But agreements. Quarantine and Department documents obtained through Freedom of Agriculture staff voted overwhelmingly Currency scandal of Information requests showed that to reject the federal government’s latest The Financial Review reported that two Reserve government bureaucrats - and even one offer in enterprise bargaining talks. ‘They Bank currency firms and six of their former cabinet minister - have concerns about are determined to fight for a better deal,’ senior managers have been accused plain packaging. Health Minister Nicola said Community and Public Sector Union by Australian prosecutors of funnelling Roxon herself admitted this week that there national secretary Nadine Flood. The union multimillion-dollar bribes to government is no proof the move will cut smoking rates has applied to Fair Work Australia to allow officials in Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam because no government has done it before, immigration and customs staff to take to win banknote deals. Police in Australia, yet proof is the key. Opposition Leader Tony protected industrial action from 1 July. Asia and Europe have laid bribery charges Abbott has backed the plan. Flood said that any strikes would hit airports against Securency and Note Printing and seaports nationwide. ‘We’d prefer to Australia - plastic banknote design and Advertising intentions resolve these issues without taking action, printing firms that are, respectively, half British American Tobacco Limited ran but the ball is now in the employers’ court.’ owned and fully owned and overseen by advertisements critical of proposed the RBA. The paper also revealed that the plain packaging laws that would virtually Union birthday federal police investigated an Austrade banish logos, brand images, colours National Secretary of the Australian commissioner, who is still serving in and promotional text from packs. It Workers Union, Paul Howes, wrote a practical Asia, after uncovering information about argued that ‘no company would stand and potted history of his organisation Austrade’s role in assisting banknote firm for having its brands taken away’ and in The Australian to mark the Union’s 125th Securency International to provide overseas that the move ‘may infringe international anniversary this June. travel for Vietnamese officials. Several law trademark and intellectual property arrests have been made, including dramatic law’. The advertisements suggests that Retailers on IR apprehension of Christian Boilott, a former the government may end up ‘spending The Financial Review reported that three of senior sales executive from Note Printing millions’ in legal fees, for defending an ‘idea Australia’s retail giants expressed criticism Australia, the second RBA banknote unproven anywhere in the world’. of the government’s workplace regime. company accused of bribing overseas They warned that it is damaging a key part officials. Others include six Victorians and of the economy and leading to excessive two Malaysians. The Age wrote that now a INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. wage costs that could trigger job losses. Vietnamese colonel was also suspected of EMPLOYMENT playing a key role and is being investigated Abbott and Reith by the Vietnamese governemnt. The Age The Financial Review reported that Tony Abbott also reported that the banknote firms are Reform choices had conceded to pressure from fellow suspected of attempting to bribe former The Age reported Victorian Liberal Josh Liberal Peter Reith to abandon his low- Malaysian prime minister Abdullah Badawi Frydenberg’s call on 15 June to employers, key approach to industrial relations. The in order to get his help to win a $31 million workers and industry groups to speak out opposition leader promised that he would currency contract. for reform of Labor’s industrial relations take a ‘strong and effective’ policy to the laws. Frydenberg is among those in the next election. The promise came just hours Tobacco battle lights up Liberal Party who are pressing for the after Reith, a former workplace relations The Australian reported that tobacco giant Coalition to promise to change Labor’s minister in the Howard government, publicly Philip Morris has launched legal action laws. They face the reluctance of opposition berated Abbott for dragging his feet on the aimed at forcing the Gillard government leader Tony Abbott, who is worried about the issue. Last year Abbott famously declared to back down on its plain-packaging prospect of Labor successfully raising the Workchoices ‘dead, buried and cremated’ legislation or face a compensation bill of spectre of WorkChoices. and promised if he became PM there ‘billions of dollars’. In an escalation of the would be no change to workplace laws tobacco industry’s campaign against the Miners digging in in his first term. He has since said that if laws, which to date has been confined The Australian reported that the mining business wants change, it will have to make to lobbying and advertising, Philip Morris industry had opened a new front in its the case. Tensions between Reith and wants to prevent the Australian government battles with the government, setting up a Abbott erupted after the opposition leader setting a precedent that could be adopted fighting fund to finance court challenges frustrated Reith’s bid for the Liberal federal by governments around the world. against rulings by Fair Work Australia. The presidency. The Age’s Ben Schneiders wrote Australian Mines and Metals Association, a one-page spread on Reith’s success at At what cost? which was a key player in the industry’s putting industrial relations reform back on Christian Kerr at The Financial Review warned successful campaign to stop the Rudd the map. He quoted Adelaide University that plain tobacco packaging could prove government from introducing the resource Professor Andrew Stewart, who claims that a costly mistake. He wrote that if the super-profits tax, has turned its focus to the ‘Fair Work Act’ has put IR back to where proposals succeed, they would spark a industrial relations, revealing that it will it was for most of John Howard’s leadership. series of similar strikes against smoking seek $500,000 from its members to finance across the globe. But if the tobacco challenges to a growing number of tribunal Start small companies’ challenge that the laws rob them decisions that are ‘adverse’ to the interests The Age reported that small business would of their intellectual property - brands and of employers. be the focus of the Coalition’s workplace trademarks - in violation of the Australian relations policy. The opposition’s spokesman Constitution and international trade treaties, Action in every port Eric Abetz cited rising unfair dismissal claims is successful, taxpayers could be left with The Herald Sun reported airports and seaports and employers being forced to pay ‘go a compensation bill in the billions. The could be adversely affected during July away money’ as significant problems with government says it has robust legal advice as customs and quarantine officers ramp Labor’s Fair Work laws. He said the unfair

13 7 June to 19 July 2011 dismissal system was not working and there Power to the people under pressure from consumer regulators was a ‘burgeoning’ industry of employers The Financial Review said investors and after it was grounded by the Civil Aviation being forced to pay money to settle claims. creditors would have greater control over safety Authority over safety concerns. the fate of insolvent companies, including However, the Australian Competition and Indigenous jobs the power to sack liquidators and cap Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Mining magnate Andrew Forrest says their fees, under Treasury proposals to cut Samuel warned that selling a ticket without Australian employers have pledged to create costs and lift standards among corporate mentioning the uncertainty about whether 57,500 jobs for indigenous Australians under undertakers. The key reforms include a the service could be provided ‘would be a plan he helped to launch three years ago, ‘one-stop shop’ for small businesses that potentially misleading by omission’. A and the federal government now has to help run into trouble, as well as tougher penalties particular flight from Sydney to Melbourne them meet the target. About 4000 jobs have for breaches of insolvency laws, more flew below the minimum safe altitude on a so far been created through the Australian power for regulators, and an alignment of second final approach, after unexpectedly Employment Covenant. There is no deadline the rules covering personal bankruptcy aborting an initial landing attempt. for the target of 57,500 jobs, but Mr Forrest and insolvency. The changes would also said government training would determine break open the ‘clubby’ industry to lawyers It is written how quickly it was met. and others with commercial expertise, to The Age reported that the big two online increase competition and reduce fees. But booksellers, Amazon and Book Depository, Qantas industrial action the government refused to adopt the Senate are joining forces in a move likely to increase The Financial Review reported that in an report’s major recommendation, saying pressure on Australia’s bookshops. When unorthodox industrial action, Qantas that stripping the Australian Securities and REDgroup, owner of Borders and Angus pilots will make pro-union statements to Investments Commission of oversight of the & Robertson, went into administration in passengers over the in-flight announcement industry would be inefficient and costly. February, it partly blamed the drift to online system. The pilots have begun their first shopping. industrial action at Qantas in 45 years. The Following the leader action, to be undertaken by about 1600 The Australian reported that Graeme Samuel Red rag to a bull long-haul pilots, will include pilots not would step down from the ACCC chairman’s The Financial Review reported China’s scathing wearing their usual Qantas uniforms and role at the end of June. In his farewell assessment of weaknesses in Australia’s instead complying with a union ‘authorised speech, he said that merger analysis ‘dual-speed and patchwork’ economy. uniform policy’’. was becoming increasingly complex and The argument was that Australia relies too challenging. While new forms of media heavily on Beijing’s demand for minerals. distribution were proliferating, control over The Asian giant also launched a bid to BUSINESS. ECONOMY. TAX content was ‘paramount’. ‘We are more bring Chinese workers to Australia to deal focused on the origination and control over with what it describes as an ‘infrastructure that content,’ Samuel said at a National bottleneck and shortage of skilled labour’. Banks buffet government Press Club lunch. ‘But it may be that there Chinese diplomat Ouyang Cheng told a The Australian reported that Australian are some limitations on the ACCC’s ability business forum in Adelaide that Chinese Bankers Association chief executive Steven to deal with those issues, particularly where business held ‘some worries’ about Labor’s Munchenberg launched a political attack on content aggregation occurs on a creeping revised mining tax. Australia’s trade with the government, accusing it of creating basis’. China topped $100 billion for the first time regulation that will damage the prospects last year. of the domestic banking sector. In a speech Retailers cast net wider in Sydney, Munchenberg said Labor’s The Herald Sun reported that the nation’s regulatory response was rushed and leading retailers want to open whenever BROADBAND. IT lacked the co-ordinated approach of other they like, except for key holidays, to countries. Munchenberg, a former senior counter spending by Australians through National Australia Bank executive, also took overseas websites. Other than Christmas Executive evidence aim at the Greens’ proposal to introduce a Day, Good Friday and Anzac Day morning, The Financial Review reported that National ‘too big to fail’ levy on the banks in a bid major retailers want to set their own Broadband Network chief executive to increase retail banking competition. operating hours to compete with 24/7 Michael Quigley is one of four former Alcatel The Greens also plan to push for a cap online shopping. In a submission to the executives whom Costa Rica’s state-owned on interchange fees for customers using Productivity Commission, the Australian telco is attempting to call as witnesses to a rival banks’ automatic tellers, and to force National Retailers Association has argued corruption hearing. El Instituto Costarricense banks to provide fee-free bank accounts. for immediate government intervention to De Electricidad wants Quigley to give Munchenberg said the government’s ‘level the playing field’ for its members, evidence in its case for restitution over move to increase regulation, especially for which include Harvey Norman, Bunnings, corruption by Alcatel between December mortgages and credit cards, was misplaced David Jones, Coles and Woolworths. 2001 and October 2004. The paper stressed and could lead to higher costs for customers. that there is no suggestion that Quigley was Tiger, tiger… involved in any corruption. US backs reforms The Age speculated that Tiger Airways could The Financial Review reported that United States be be forced out of business in Australia Good advice Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke altogether, after the Civil Aviation Safety The Australian reported that the New South backed proposals that countries such as Authority revoked its permission to fly, saying Wales government had lined up a list of Australia be allowed to implement individual the airline posed ‘a serious and imminent high-powered business leaders for the regulatory reforms of their banking systems, risk to air safety’. The Australian reported that new advisory body charged with securing as part of the worldwide response to the the company would allow passengers to private sector and superannuation funds global financial crisis. cancel flights without penalty until August 31 to tackle the backlog of infrastructure because of the uncertainty still surrounding projects. According to The Australian, the full its return to service. It had stopped selling board of Infrastructure New South Wales tickets until the end of June after it came was expected to go to cabinet, with former 14 75 APRILJune toto 3 19 MAY July 2011 2011 LETTER FROM CANBERRA byemulate making former exportersPrime Minister responsible John Howard for’s tough the LETTER FROM CANBERRA welfarestance on of boat animals people sentwas not for helping slaughter. her popularity Thewith eithercrisis side was of sparkedpolitics. Kerin by pointedgraphic out television that Labor footagehad struggled aired to getby itsFour policy Corners on the depicting issue right cattle since beingKevin Ruddtreated became inhumanely, prime minister and almost and scrapped turned intothe hardline another ‘Pacific animal Solution.’ welfare He also crisis wrote when that ‘no a

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In your orderthe release to secureof figures the showing controversial that the scheme deal, to suspendIMMIGRATION. live animal exportsREFUGEES to at least Thein redAustralian reported that a Chinese Cloud“ thewith a black BESTlining wholesaleconference arms had been given a 90-day extension dreams!EVER!” whichwas responsible involved for about three a propertiesthird of the price owned rise. 11 abattoirs. 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Energy Australia head and current AAPT Copper too dear a Vegemite ban and was investigating the boss, 60-year-old Paul Broad, becoming the The Financial Review reported comments from matter. Cooper said 98 per cent of Vegemite advisory body’s new chief executive. National Broadband Network Co chief sales were in Australia with the UK, the US executive Mike Quigley, who underlined and Asia making up the largest export Do not pass go the complexity and cost of changing the markets. The Age reported that the Victorian government company’s $11 billion deal with Telstra’s gave a highly critical assessment of federal to access the telco’s copper wire network. Go better Labor’s broadband plans. It claimed that the After signing the infrastructure-sharing A press release from federal minister National Broadband Network could saddle deal in June, Quigley said NBN had not for Innovation Kim Carr discussed his consumers with unnecessarily high internet negotiated to use Telstra’s copper cabling meeting with General Motors Corporation costs and hold back competition. Victoria’s because this would have raised the deal’s in Washington DC. During the meeting Technology Minister Gordon Rich-Phillips cost and added further delays. Carr discussed with GM the improved warned that taxpayers could ‘pay multiple performance of General Motors, the times’ if the NBN duplicates existing fibre Money down the synk hole? success of its recent investments in connections to schools, hospitals and The Age wrote that the Australian Synchrotron Australia and prospects for future growth, businesses. In a submission to the House was in danger of closing. Some claim it particularly with regard to exports. ‘The of Representatives inquiry into the NBN, would be an immeasurable loss to medical meeting was extremely positive and I’m Victoria has told Canberra that it appears researchers trying to find treatments optimistic about the future of GM Holden to have given ‘excessive’ protections to the for diseases such as cancer. The writer, in Australia and future opportunities for the NBN Co against competition, and cautions Geoff Strong, gave a clear description of Australian automotive industry’. about the risks of setting up the network as the Synchrotron as a very large, circular, a large public monopoly. megavoltage machine about the size of Colorado closure a football field. It uses about $2 million of The Australian reported that clothing chain Agreement trashed electricity per year to produce light a million Colorado is in the process of closing 140 Michael Porter at The Age wrote that the federal times brighter than the sun. The intense stores, at a cost of more than 1,000 jobs. government could save at least $20 billion light is filtered and adjusted to travel into by redesigning the deal. He claims that experimental workstations, where the light the definitive agreement between Telstra reveals the innermost, sub-microscopic EDUCATION and NBN co. released by Communications secrets of materials under investigation. Minister Stephen Conroy is possibly a unique Researchers can use the machine to invent achievement in destroying capital and new ways to tackle diseases, make plants Closing the gap suppressing competition. Porter even more productive or metals more resilient. The Australian reported that indigenous Year 9 claims that the agreement effectively The facility costs at least $20 million per students are being failed in the classroom, violates the trade practices act, and thus year to keep operational. Oh! For more such with a new report showing that Aboriginal requires its own legislative immunities. detailed and important articles which affect disadvantage is worsening in education, He points out that scope remains for legal us all. despite government efforts to close the action and challenges by the Australian gap. A Council of Australian Governments Competition and Consumer Commission. Reform Council report, which analysed Porter claims that the 40 odd pages of MANUFACTURING NAPLAN data, showed that the gulf in details on the agreement are all about reading ability between indigenous and snipping copper suppressing advertising non-indigenous students in Year 9 has of wireless and mobile competition and Supermarket rebuke widened. withdrawing provisions for competition from The Financial Review reported that in June, cable and in case it all fails, and the National Coles and Woolworths got a public slap on Fibre to the nowhere Broadband Network is bankrupted, Telstra the wrist from a major supplier. HJ Heinz, The Financial Review reported that the has a guarantee from the Commonwealth one of the biggest food companies in the government had scrapped the $100 million taxpayers that we will compensate them world, is pulling its manufacturing out of Fibre Connection to Schools initiative, and allow Telstra to buy back assets. Australia. Its chief executive Bill Johnson told established to complement Labor’s investors Australia no longer represented ambitious ‘computers in schools’ rollout. Porter continues: ‘The outgoing head of an opportunity for the company because The broadband program was part of federal the thrown competition and consumer of a retail environment in which the big Labor’s 2007 digital education revolution commission, Graeme Samuel, admitted that supermarkets constantly squeeze their election pledge. The high-speed connection some time back that the ‘decommissioning’ suppliers. This was, he said, a shame for was meant to cover schools outside the of the competitive cable and other the Australian consumer ‘who will be served National Broadband Network footprint. But technology was a violation of competition in a poor way, with poor product selection four years on, the proposal championed law. But he looked the other way, facilitating long term’. The paper said Heinz is fortunate by Julia Gillard while in opposition and as anti-competitive legislation. The deal in that it’s big enough to talk publicly about education minister has vanished. At a released involved payments over time with the big supermarkets as smaller suppliers Senate estimates hearing earlier this month, the overbuilt old copper and table with are generally unable to do so. Department of Education, Employment and fibre, with a present value of $11 billion. Workplace Relations officials confirmed This is all taxpayers money going to private Vegemite ban that the broadband plan had to make way companies to destroy copper and hybrid British newspaper The Guardian reported for other government programs. fibre coaxial cable competition so as to that the Danish government had banned prop up a contrived wholesale broadband products fortified with added vitamins in Qualification monopoly. The challenge to the new head of 2004, including Vegemite. Kraft Foods The Age reported that university graduates the ACCC is to show the courage demanded corporate affairs manager Greta Cooper said are finding it more difficult to get full-time in the trade practices act.’ the company had not been notified about work than at any time since 1994. A survey

16 LETTER FROM CANBERRA of almost 100,000 graduates found 76.2 per approved times. If surgery was not done on would be allowed to dispense them - initially cent of those hunting for work found full- time, patients were promised free treatment to those aged 20 and over, and eventually time positions after finishing their studies in in private hospitals. Canberra has instead only to those with a valid medical certificate. 2009. agreed with the states on a public hospital- based plan aimed at delivering 100 per cent Red wine, red centre Well done on-time surgery within five years. This is The Age reported that Coles and Woolworths The Age reported that Woods Bagot won the despite latest trends showing that public came under attack in Alice Springs, for Public Architecture Award— Alterations hospital elective surgery rates nationally are banning cheap wine in an attempt to force and Additions for DeakinUniversity’s new failing to keep pace with demand. Health up the alcohol floor price. The Alice Springs lecture theatre at the annual Australian Minister Nicola Roxon said the agreement to town council decided by a margin of five Institute of Architects Awards. Located at drop the private hospital back-up proposal votes to three, to ask the supermarket the university’s Burwood campus, the new was made on the advice of an expert clinical chains to abandon the new rules. From July, building has a 256-seat lecture theatre, panel. She said the new approach set a Coles will sell no bottled wine for less than foyer, two tutorial rooms and student lounge higher target than the original benchmark $8 and no two-litre cask wine at all, setting and amenities. that proposed 95 per cent of elective an effective floor price for alcohol of $1.14 surgery cases be performed within agreed per standard drink. Woolworths will also deadlines. cease selling two-litre casks. HEALTH Where there’s smoke The Australian reported that the federal DEFENCE State of health opposition branded federal Health Minister The Australian reported that Labor had Nicola Roxon a ‘hypocrite’ for seeking agreed to the advice of state premiers on financial support from a leading tobacco Conference + exhibition national health reforms, junking a plan to manufacturer, in light of her sustained The 2011 Annual Defence + Industry guarantee public hospital elective surgery campaign against political donations Conference and Trade Exhibition was patients private hospital treatment if they from the industry to the Coalition. held from 28 June to 30 June, at the are forced to wait beyond recommended Roxon conceded she wrote to tobacco Adelaide Convention Centre. The event periods. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon manufacturer Philip Morris six years ago, is an opportunity to gain insights into also watered down the previous blanket asking company representatives to support the government’s defence capability guarantee of a maximum wait of four her re-election bid by attending a fundraising strategies and hear from the people making hours for treatment in hospital emergency event on 20 October, 2005. The invitations tomorrow’s key procurement decisions. It departments, agreeing that the target will to three representatives of Australia’s enabled guests to meet with leaders and now be rolled out on a hospital-by-hospital second-largest tobacco manufacturer experts from across Defence and industry, basis and will apply to only 90 per cent of were sent close to a year after former Labor and see cutting-edge technologies at work patients. leader Mark Latham banned tobacco industry in Australia’s largest defence exhibition. donations to the party. The Health Minister Watch this dog told the ABC that the invitations were sent Expensive project The Financial Review reported that the new in error, clarifying that the representatives The Australian claims that bitter infighting has health watchdog, with the power to name did not attend the event and did not donate erupted between government and industry and shame under performing hospitals, to her or her electorate. The Liberal Party is over the nation’s largest defence project, is too weak, and must be strengthened to reviewing its own acceptance of tobacco the $8 billion plan to build the navy’s new allow the Auditor-General to check the data donations. These could be banned when Air Warfare Destroyers. The project is two the states submit, the Australian Medical the federal executive of the party discusses years late, and hundreds of millions of Association says. State and federal health the issue at its next meeting. dollars over budget. The government was ministers gave the go-ahead to the National forced to admit publicly that the flagship Health Performance Authority. The NHPA Cigarette ads a drag project was badly behind schedule, after will monitor whether extra federal funding The Australian reported that Queensland it became aware that The Australian had the goes towards reducing elective surgery would roll out Australia’s toughest anti- story and was planning to publish it. queues, improving emergency department tobacco sales laws this year. The laws care and cutting hospital infection rates. The go beyond point-of-sale restrictions in Ship to shore new body is a key accountability measure NSW and Victoria that prevent the display The Australian reported that the head in Labor’s $19.8 billion health reforms. of tobacco products by small retailers, of defence acquisition for the Gillard However, AMA president Steve Hambleton extending the bans to specialist shops. government had admitted that the nation’s warned that the authority’s ability to do its All cigarette advertising and display will largest defence project, the plan to build job well would depend on the quality of the be banned in shops and tobacconists. three new Air Warfare Destroyers, is a ‘crisis’ data it is given from the states. Queensland Premier Anna Bligh said that that threatens the reputation of Defence the move would reduce the incentive to and everyone involved in the $8 billion plan. Private not for public impulse-buy cigarettes, and would cut The comments, made by Defence Materiel The Australian reported that the Gillard smoking rates for young people. Organisation head Stephen Gumley to defence government decided to remove its industry colleagues in late April, directly guarantee of private hospital care for Prescription only cigarettes contradict the Gillard government’s public patients facing long waits for elective The Age reported that Iceland is considering spin, which sought to portray the AWD surgery in the public system. Under the banning the sale of cigarettes and making problems as being ‘not unusual’ for such health deal with the states negotiated by them a prescription-only product. The a complex naval construction. The Australian Kevin Rudd and then Julia Gillard, patients parliament in Reykjavik is to debate a learnt that Gumley was only fully briefed on were guaranteed that 95 per cent of elective proposal that would outlaw the sale of 20 April that the AWD project was in deep surgery would be performed within clinically cigarettes in normal shops. Only pharmacies trouble, running two years late.

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Fighter jet for sale The Age reported that over the next 10 years This one day conference, catering for undergraduates, graduates and the Defence Department hopes to offload young professionals, could be the start of your brilliant career up to 24 ships, 70 combat aeroplanes, 110 other aeroplanes, 120 helicopters, 600 Friday 26 August 2011 armoured vehicles, 12,000 other vehicles 8:00am - 4:15pm and a range of communications equipment, Melbourne University weapons and explosive ordnance. Among the items slated for sale are Black Hawk Registrations available now: helicopters, which are being replaced - http://vic.aiia.asn.au along with their sister model, the Sea Hawk - by MRH-90 helicopters worth $3.7 billion. The Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria presents speakers from within the Buyers can also pick up Squirrel training international sector across three streams: private industry, government and non-governmental helicopters. Defence Materiel Minister Jason organisations. It will offer an interactive and contemporary perspective on the practical issues and Clare described the sell-off as the biggest since World War II, with the defence force challenges of entering into and maintaining a career in the international arena. set to upgrade or replace 85 per cent of its equipment over the next decade.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS provide potentially greater opportunities - demand for special arrangements for and business should and will continue to children by warning the government will exploit those opportunities,’ Grey said. ‘But not be re-elected if it does not stop people- The Malaysian connection Austrade can add less value there because smugglers. The Australian reported that Alexander Downer businesses themselves can navigate their accused Julia Gillard of jeopardising way around Europe and North America’. Not a Pacific solution Australia’s dealings with Malaysia, by Greg Sheridan, foreign editor at The Australian, dumping the controversial issue of asylum- Green dream wrote that John Howard’s Pacific Solution was seekers ‘front and centre’ in what has been The Age reported that leader Bob Brown wants a success in deterring illegal immigrants one of Canberra’s most difficult regional Australia to join an international push for a by boat. He said the Gillard government relationships. As the government of Nauru global parliament. This ‘people’s assembly’ claims it was not a success because most declared itself ready and willing to discuss would be based on one person, one vote, boatpeople who were removed under reopening its immigration detention centre, one value, and was being vigorously the Pacific Solution came to Australia the former Howard government foreign promoted in Europe and the United Nations, eventually. Sheridan retorts that like most minister rounded on the Gillard government he said. He admitted that it won’t come to things the Gillard government says about over its handling of the relationship with pass in his lifetime but said if and when it this issue, this is untrue and based on a Malaysia. does, ‘it could be right here in Australia’. statistical sleight of hand. Austrade realigns IMF chief twist Children at risk Federal Trade Minister Craig Emerson The Age reported on developments in the The Australian reported that three senior announced a comprehensive reform New York rape case surrounding former Labor ministers have warned of the risk that of Austrade, whose annual budget of International Monetary Fund chief Dominique more child asylum-seekers could drown almost $200 million will be focused more Strauss-Kahn. An assistant district attorney in Australian waters without a change in on emerging markets. In an interview told the court that ‘the fact of a sexual border protection policy. In a tacit admission with The Australian at Austrade’s Sydney encounter’ between the pair after the maid that onshore processing of asylum-seekers headquarters, CEO Peter Grey said ‘We want arrived to clean suite 2086 of the Manhattan attracts people-smugglers, the ministers, to end up with a more contemporary version Sofitel on 14 May, ‘was and is corroborated all from Labor’s Right, rejected calls from of Austrade, one which is focused on those by the forensic evidence’. However, seven Labor’s Left for exemptions for minors under markets which are important for Australia weeks into the case, ‘substantial credibility Julia Gillard’s plan to deport 800 boatpeople in 2011 and onwards’. ‘We are looking at issues’ had been found with the maid. to Malaysia. emerging markets, frontier markets. As However, the investigation is ongoing. a government agency we have to look at Let them come where we can add the most value -- and Guns for Christmas Island The Financial Review reported that Infrastructure that is in the more difficult markets, where The Australian reported that community police Australia chairman Sir Rod Eddington called on there are cultural or linguistic differences.’ Christmas Island will soon be wearing the Gillard government to relax temporary The Australian reported that Austrade firearms. The island’s administrator, Brian skilled worker visas and other restrictions, operates in 100 cities in 55 countries, Lacy, announced the decision that has to help boost the construction of essential and is serviced by 70 Australia-based baffled and angered many residents. export projects as the nation tries to clear executives, assisted by many more locally. a $700 billion infrastructure deficit. He also The changes announced will rationalise called for a greater Australian engagement Austrade’s presence in developed markets IMMIGRATION. REFUGEES with Asia, including at company board level. in the US and Europe, and will cut some of its operations in Australia, to allow greater Special protections focus on up-and-coming markets where Stormy waters The Australian reported that 800 asylum- on-the-ground government assistance can The Age suggested that the asylum-seeker seekers to be sent to Malaysia under make a much bigger difference to Australian issue threatened to divide the Labor Canberra’s refugee swap will spend exporters. ‘Europe and North America may Party, with the Right rejecting a left-wing six weeks in a new Australian-funded

18 LETTER FROM CANBERRA holding centre before being released to Kevin Rudd to boost its bid to beat the ABC threatening Sky’s new tender bid for the into the community, and will be granted for a $220 million government contract to Australian overseas network. Executives immunity from harsh immigration laws. The run Australia’s official TV network into the and journalists from Murdoch’s News of exemption will protect the asylum-seekers Asia-Pacific. Annie O’Rourke had worked the World are under criminal investigation from the threat of caning and other human for Mr Rudd when he was prime minister for hacking the telephones of celebrities, rights abuses. for two years until 2009, first in charge of and allegedly a murder victim and the staffing and later directing online media, families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Children will go alone such as blogs and Twitter. The scandal sunk Murdoch’s pay television The Australian confirmed that the Gillard buyout ambitions to take full control of government intends to transfer BskyB in the United-Kingdom, a move that unaccompanied child asylum-seekers would have made him Britain’s dominant to Malaysia, as a deterrent to stop their media proprietor. The Age described Britain’s parents sending them to Australia by boat. response to the news that media phone Immigration Minister Chris Bowen confirmed hacking interfered in the investigation to the paper that there would be no special of a murdered girl’s disappearance as treatment for unaccompanied minors ‘revulsion and disgust’. In the most recent in Australia’s asylum-seeker deal with developments, on 16 July Rebekah Brooks Kuala Lumpur. However, the minister later resigned as chief executive of News softened his stance, saying that decisions International. The next day she was arrested would be made on a case-by-case basis. by police on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion Malaysia doubts of corruption allegations, and subsequently The Age reported that the head of the United bailed to appear in October. Small book shops continue to attract Nations refugee agency publicly raised patrons despite the closing of Borders doubts about whether his office will support Gay marriage the Gillard government’s proposed refugee and the decline of consumer spending at The Australian reported that prime minister swap with Malaysia. UN High Commissioner other large retailers. Julia Gillard is under increasing pressure for Refugees Antonio Guterres, a former from within her own party to legalise gay prime minister of Portugal, told a meeting marriage. The Queensland Labor state in Geneva that the deal remains unsigned, Limit’s the sky conference overwhelmingly passed a weeks after its announcement, because the The Age reported that the federal government motion for federal Labor to introduce equal agency is taking a tough approach. intervened in an official tender process rights for ‘all adult couples’ who wish to to stop Rupert Murdoch’s part-owned Sky formalise their union. News Australia winning a $223 million SOCIETY. SPORT. GAMING contract to broadcast Australia’s overseas Sports betting fair rules television service. An aggressive bid to The Herald Sun reported that the AFL and the expand Australia’s presence in China had NRL were among major Australian sports Satire takes aim helped push Sky News over the line in bodies proposing laws to require punters The ABC has announced it commissioned a fierce contest with the ABC to win the who bet or collect more than $5,000 in a four-part ‘narrative comedy’ series on the rights to the station, known as Australia cash to register their wagers so they can be domestic lives of Julia Gillard and partner Tim Network. Australia Network broadcasts monitored. Mathieson. At Home With Julia, billed by the ABC news, drama and sport to 44 countries in as ‘part rom-com, part guaranteed lawsuit’, Asia and the Pacific, as well as programs All bets are off it has recently begun filming in Sydney, with to teach English-language skills, targeting The Australian reported that Labor will ban veteran Gillard impersonator Amanda Bishop the emerging middle-class audience in the promotion of live betting odds during and Phil Lloyd, star of the cult comedy series the region. At present the ABC holds the sporting events within a year. The paper Review with Myles Barlow, as the First Bloke. rights to broadcast the network, but the said that the move could cost the nation’s government put a new 10-year deal out television networks tens of millions of dollars. Beholden automobile for sale to competitive tender in February with Communications Minister Stephen Conroy The Herald Sun reported that one of the very an outcome originally set for 2 May. An said that sporting codes, broadcasters and few surviving prototypes for the first Holden, independent panel of public servants set betting agencies would be given 12 months thought to be worth as much as $2 million, up to evaluate the competing tenders saw to voluntarily cease the practice or else face is up for sale after 30 years in the hands of a Sky’s as the better bid. Sky News proposed legislation under a deal between state and private collector. setting up a dedicated channel for China to federal gambling ministers. run separately from the rest of the network Paper offer too thin as a way of expanding Australia’s reach in Betting scandal The Australian reported that a syndicate of the Asian powerhouse, where censorship The Herald Sun reported that Collingwood wealthy Melbourne families, led by Ron limits foreign news broadcasts. No licences player Heath Shaw has been suspended for Walker, approached Fairfax Media about to broadcast into China have been granted eight matches and fined $20,000 after being buying its key Melbourne assets, The Age in recent years but the Foreign Affairs embroiled in a betting scandal also involving newspaper and the talk radio station 3AW. Department has said it is keen to gain captain Nick Maxwell. Shaw and a friend bet However, the informal discussions were cut access for Australia’s public diplomacy $10 each on Maxwell kicking the first goal short by the company’s board. channel. of the round 10 game against Adelaide, knowing his teammate was to start in the Sky’s the limit Pie in the sky? forward line, giving odds at over 100 to one. The Financial Review reported that television The Financial Review reported that the fallout It was also revealed that three of his family station Sky News hired a former top adviser from Britain’s phone-hacking scandal is members placed bets.

19 7 June to 19 July 2011

TASMANIAN VIEWPOINT: GREG BARNS

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