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Dorothea Mackellar dressed as one of the Graces for Mrs T.H. Kelly’s Italian Red Cross Day tableaux at the Palace Theatre, 20 June 1918... more information in our editorial

Dorothea Mackellar dressed as one of the Graces for Mrs T.H. Kelly’s Italian Red Cross Day tableaux at the Palace Theatre, 20 June 1918... more information in our editorial 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011

14 Collins Street ABOUT THE EDITOR ALISTAIR URQUHART Melbourne, 3000 Alistair Urquhart graduated from National University in Canberra, in Law, History and Politics, was , Australia admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and remains a (non-practicing) member of P 03 9654 1300 the Law Institute of Victoria. Before that, he graduated from high school in Bethesda, Maryland, and had many F 03 9654 1165 opportunities to become aware of the workings of Washington DC. For 30 years, he listened every Sunday evening [email protected] to the late Alistair Cooke and his Letter From America. www.letterromcanberra.com.au

His early career was mostly in the coal industry, where he became involved with energy, environmental and water Editor Alistair Urquhart issues, and later in the SME finance sector. His public affairs firm works with many engineering and information Associate Editor Gabriel Phipps technology firms, other professional association and industry groups, on a wide range of issues, in Victoria, Canberra Subscription Manager Juliette Biegler and overseas. Urquhart visits Canberra regularly. He may hold the record for miles rowed on Lake Burley Griffin. Advertising Manager Eddie Mior Editorial Consultant Rick Brown Design Richard Hamilton Editorial A challenging year for many leaders, and others Steph Dang Welcome to our first edition for the year. It covers from the end of 2010 and January and February. We will bring Letter from Canberra is focused on the interface you ten monthly issues before Christmas. It will be a busy year for our readers. For new readers, our methodology of business and government, with enough politics includes marking up several papers each day, including The Age, The Financial Review and The Australian, plus all and bureaucracy to understand the, or any, types of other material that comes into our office with ‘a government link’. relevant business opportunities.

We have been publishing Letter from Canberra’s We started this magazine three years ago with the election/early days of new prime minister . The sister publication Letter From Melbourne, a then centralising national focus of our nation is shifting back, a bit, to a more federation approach as more public policy digest, for 16 years. Commencing Liberal/National Party governments appear. with the Kennett era corporatisation and privatisation of energy and other utilities and We have not yet opened up a betting shop as to what might, or might not, happen to the wide range of opportunities the other fresh broom approach of a new for policies and prime ministers during the year. government, where we focused on business opportunities. Increasingly, we included matters In the world of industrial relations, ‘things’ are warming up, both on the ground where people actually work in the other states and adopted a more federal (unions/their members/employers/employer associations) and also in parliament where the IR debate will get focus. nasty, recently prompted by former industrial relations minister in the Peter Reith. Opposition The recent change in federal government opens leader has said, no way back. Just like the prime minister said no way forward on a carbon tax in up new business opportunities, particularly the this parliament. Times change. government’s new emphasis on climate change, carbon trading, water, industrial relations, Our media is using its muscle to become even more important in the world of politics, and our lives. Many of us education, information technology and the have views as to when and whether they or some or which of them do a fair job. No doubt the Channel 7 reporter traditional sectors. Mark Riley showed his trade at one of its low points as he made to suggest that Tony Abbott was not concerned For many years, our other publications have about a dead Australian soldier. included the well-known federal government Departmental Wall Chart. (NOW AVAILABLE at 03 Our cover. If not directly affected by the weather that mother nature provided over the past two 96541300 or letterfrommelbourne.com.au)) We months, we have all had good reason to reflect. We covered this sense in our recent Letter From conduct seminars and informal luncheons and Melbourne. How modern technology and planning and regulations are no match for the strength of meetings in Melbourne, Canberra and . nature. Perhaps it made us reflect back in time, when a larger percentage of Australians lived in the Most people have their clipping services and a bush, and were often more immediately effected by the natural environment. It made the editor muse range of email products/newsletters/etc. At the on Dorothea Mackellar’s poem, which we have included in full, particularly to give perspective of the end of the month, Letter From Canberra gives a second verse that so many of us do know. And now the sad events in New Zealand. broad overview of what has been going on, not just in one industry but across all industries and Isabel Marion Dorothea Mackellar, OBE, 1885 to 1968, Sydney-born, Australian poet and fiction the world of business and government generally. writer. Her best-known poem, My Country, written at age 19 while homesick in England, was first Objective. Independent. Read it on the plane. Or at published in the London Spectator in 1908. Her brother had a farm at Gunnedah, in northern New a coffee shop in New York. And then give it to a South Wales. A federal electorate covering half of Sydney’s Northern Beaches is named after her. friend who is interested in Australia.

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has also lost Family Department’s secretary Jeff Labor review Governance Harmer, who had flagged his retirement. Dr. Harmer Towards the end of February, the review was released will be replaced by secretary of the Human Services to the Australian Labor Part national executive. Can Gillard get it together Department, Finn Pratt. The Department of Climate According to Financial Review the report finds Labor’s The Financial Review’s Geoff Kitney wrote an Change will be run by its deputy secretary Blair ‘gang of four’ leadership style under Kevin Rudd, interesting piece about the Labor leader’s task. ‘This Comley. Kathryn Campbell, the deputy secretary along with Lindsay Tanner, Wayne Swan and Julia Prime Minister must overcome greater challenges of the Department of Education, Employment and Gillard, was a bad way to run government. The than any national leader in living memory. Her task Workplace Relations, will take over from Mr Pratt Australian said the review identified disillusionment is huge. In the precarious new world of minority at Human Services. Glenys Beauchamp has been deep within the rands of Labor’s true believers. Against government, in which the Gillard administration is made head of the Regional Australia Department. a background of declining membership and member not in control of its own destiny, the battle for political participation, the report concludes that Labor party advantage is intense and unrelenting. The new order Two electoral post mortems members feel ‘feel alienated and disenfranchised’. in which power is shared between the Labor Party The Age writes that Federal Labor MP Alan Griffin is a and a gaggle of independent and minority party prominent candidate to be part of the team reviewing Three-years? MPs has changed politics in ways that are yet to be the ALPs disastrous loss in Victoria’s November state If recommendations made in the Labor party’s 2010 fully understood. None of the major players in the election. News of the Victorian review comes as national review are applied, presidents will no longer Canberra game – MPs, the parties, the bureaucracy the panel investigating Labor’s points victory at the be rotated annually, and will instead serve three year and the media – has any reference point by which August federal election met in Melbourne. The Federal terms. to judge how to deal with the situation. For the first investigation was run by a panel of prominent Labor time since the 1975 constitutional crisis, all is new, figures – former Victorian premier Steve Bracks, Gillard gaffs all is different, nothing is certain. No other modern senator John Faulkner and former Michelle Grattan of The Age writes that prime Australian federal political leaders have had their premier . minister is having a problem with power so circumscribed. No leaders have had so little loose words. The sloppy phrasing of the proposed leverage on the system with which to build leadership Labor review produces worrying results cross-party committee on the Christmas Island boat authority.’ The Australian reported that the review of the 2010 disaster led some to believe, wrongly, that she wanted federal election was released to the Australian (the committee) to manage the aftermath, rather than Henry retires Labor Party national executive, towards the end just be briefed on the facts. The Herald Sun’s claim on October 28 that Dr. Ken of February. According to Financial Review, the Henry would retire in 2011, on 7 March, after 10 report found Labor’s ‘gang of four’ leadership style On another matter, Gillard has found herself hoist on years as the Treasury Secretary, was confirmed a under Kevin Rudd, along with Lindsay Tanner, her words about Wikileaks and the law. She said on month later when he rejected pleas from the Gillard Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard, was a bad way December 2: ‘I absolutely condemn the placement government to stay. Dr Henry’s decision is a bombshell to run government. The Australian said the review of this information on the Wikileaks website – it is a for the government, which insisted just a few weeks identified disillusionment deep within the ranks of grossly irresponsible thing to do, and an illegal thing prior that he was not about to resign. Dr. Henry had Labor’s true believers. to do.’ There was a certain ambiguity in the comment, warned ex-Treasury officials before his announcement but the impression conveyed was that Julian that 2011 would be an ‘awful’ time because of the Against a background of declining membership Assange had likely broken the law, somewhere. hung parliament. Among other things, Dr. Henry was and member participation, the report concludes This was reinforced by the government asking the the architect of the original rent resources tax which that Labor party members feel ‘feel alienated and Australian Federal Police to advise on whether he had was partially responsible for bringing down former disenfranchised’. breached any Australian law. The unsurprising advice PM Kevin Rudd. Martin Parkinson, who is head of the has now come back from the AFP: no, he hasn’t. climate change Department and a vocal supporter It has painted the picture of a party with an alienated The editor of Letter From Canberra recently attended of the emissions trading scheme, will replace him in and ageing membership, and a failing branch a performance of ‘The Wharf Review’ at the new March. Former PM made Dr Henry, structure that can no longer man key polling booths. Melbourne Recital Centre where many politicians and 52, Treasury chief in 2001. According to the Financial However, it stopped short of suggesting a ban on the issues were skited. The impression of Julia amused Review, a treasury colleague said that ‘Over the years practice of ALP head office imposing candidates on the audience. to come, Henry’s report will be the reference point for local branches, saying that it should be considered tax reform.’ a ‘last resort.’ The review, focusing on how ALP About the House candidates were selected, was called after Labor’s Amongst the regular notifications of House of More bureaucratic movement near-defeat in the 2010 federal election, and made 21 Representatives and Senate business on page 2 The Financial Review reported that Ken Henry was not recommendations to reduce the power of factions and of The Australian, recent advices include a federal the only senior bureaucrat departing. The Government powerbrokers in the party. election review and a public hearings for the Murray-

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Warren Snowdon Veterans’ Affairs N/A Kim Isaacs CoS Nick Cox Ian Campbell Ken Douglas (Services) Maj Gen Liz Cosson (Executive Division) Dr Graeme Killer (Principal Medical Australian War Memorial Office of Australian War Graves Repatriation Medical Authority Veterans and Veterans Families Counselling VETERANS' AFFAIRS Alice Plate (Media) Donisha Duff Barry Telford (Support) (from 30 Nov ’10) Advisor) Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Repatriation Commission (Ian Campbell, Specialist Medical Review Council Service Shadow Veterans’ Affairs, Michael Commission (Ian Campbell, President) President; Maj Gen Mark Kelly, Cmr) Veterans’ Review Board Ronaldson Luke Toy (Senior) Narelle Dotta (Corporate)

Tertiary Ed, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations Dr Michael Boyle CoS Matt Levey, Andrew *For Arbib’s advisors see FaHCSIA Ewen McDonald (Dep Sec, Corporate & Network) Catherine Wall (Engagement and Wellbeing) Colin Walters (International) Marsha Milliken (Income Support) Ben Wyers (People and Workforce) Australian Institute of Marine Science (Dr Ian Stevens, Chair) Commission (Peter Henneken, Chairman) Chris Evans c (Evans), Deborah Lewis Palfreyman, Jack Smith, EDUCATION, School Education, Early Childhood and Youth Michael Manthorpe (Dep Sec, Dir of the Craig Robertson (Infrastructure and Funding) Robin Shreeve (Skills Australia) Margaret McKinnon (Job Services Australia) Helen Willoughby (Communication and Poiner, CEO) Defence Force Remuneration Tribunal (Patricia Leary) Seafarers Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Peter Garrett c DCoS Peter Wright Lisa Paul OECECC, BER) Janet Davy (Curriculum, Assessment and Jo Wood (Indigenous Economic Strategy) Fiona Buffinton (Specialist Employment Services) Parliamentary) Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency Authority (Seacare Authority) EMPLOYMENT Employment Participation and Childcare Simon Dowding (Media), David Blumenthal Robert Griew (Assoc Sec, Strategy) Teaching) Alison Moorehead (Social Policy) Stephen Moore (Employment Systems and Craig Storen (Finance and Business Services) Organisation (Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Chair) National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Workplace Relations Ministers Council Ann Clark, Rhys Davies, Ben Pratt (Media) Evan Arthur (National Schools and Youth Sue Dawson (Economics, Strategy and Relationships) Helen Skrzeczek (Technology Solutions) Australian Research Council Strategy Committee (Dr Michael Sargent, Chair) Skills Australia, Comcare (Paul O’Connor) Indigenous Emp. and Economic Development Brendan Peace, Jo Michele Bruniges (Dep Sec, Schools) Anthony Parsons (BER Program Management) AND WORKPLACE Vicki Rundle (Early Childhood Quality) Partnerships) Innovation) Michelle Baxter (Workplace Relations Susan Smith (Strategic Capability and Delivery) MySchool.edu.au National Workplace Relations Consultative Council Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TBC) Scard, Isaac Trienen, Shannon Rees CoS Kathryn Campbell (Dep Sec, Tertiary, Youth Margaret Kidd (Labour Market Strategy) Implementation and Safety) Safe Work Australia Council (Tom Phillips, Chair) Office of the Australian Building and Construction Australian Universities Quality Agency Shadow Childcare and Early Childhood Shadow Youth, Luke Hartsuyker & International) Ngaire Hosking (Indigenous Pathways and Early Agencies Shadow Education, Apprenticeships and , School Education and Hayden Falconer (Ellis), Jamila Rizvi, Michael Maynard (Youth and Industry Skills) Rosemary Addis (Social Innovation Strategist) Collette Shelley (Workplace Relations Policy) Fair Work Australia (Geoffrey Giudice, President) Business-Industry-Higher Education Collaboration Commissioner (Leigh Johns, Commissioner) Aust Curriculum, Reporting and Assessment RELATIONS (DEEWR) Learning, Sussan Ley David Williams Jayne Stinson, Bryan Sandra Parker (Dep Sec, Employment) Childhood Development) Training; Manager of Opposition Business in Workplace Relations Ben Johnson (Childhood Programs and David Hazlehurst (Higher Education) Dianne Fletcher (Employment Services Jeremy O’Sullivan (Workplace Relations Legal) Fair Work Ombudsman (Nicholas Wilson) Council (David Murray, Chair) Remuneration Tribunal (John Conde, President) Authority (Barry McGaw, Chair) the House, Christopher Pyne Shadow Universities, Brett Mason CoS (Garrett), Kate Wilson (Media), John Kovacic (Dep Sec, Workplace Rel.) Jennifer Taylor (Tertiary Skills and Productivity) Management, Procurement and Evaluation) George Kriz (Legal and Investigations) Aust Institute of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Studies Cooperative Research Centres Committee (Neville Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Australian National University (Professor Ian Chubb) Shadow Regional Education, Fiona Nash Pasterfield DCoS Kimberley O’Brien Business Support)

Jenny Macklin c Families, Housing, Community Services Jan McLucas, Disabilities and Carers Joanna Brent CoS Bridget Whelan CoS Dr Jeff Harmer Disability & Carers Families Indigenous Programs & Economic Registrar of Indigenous Corporations Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council Aboriginal Hostels Limited Family Assistance Office FAMILIES, HOUSING, and Indigenous Affairs , Community Services (Macklin) (Arbib) Legal & Compliance Women & Children’s Policy Development Coordinator-General for Remote Indigenous Indigenous Land Councils (incl Northern Land, Accreditation Decisions Review Committee Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies Kate Ellis Mike Dillon Philiip O’Donoghue Services Anindilyakwa Land, Central Land and Tiwi Land) Indigenous Business Australia (Bruce Gemmell, CEO) Australian Disability Enterprise COMMUNITY SERVICES Status of Women Ryan Batchelor (Senior) Serena Wilson (Deputy Secretary) Social Policy Community Engagement & Office of Remote Indigenous Housing Township Leasing Aboriginal Benefit Account Advisory Committee Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres National Auslan Interpreter Booking and Mark Arbib Social Housing and Homelessness Shadow Indigenous Development and Kate Huntington Andrew Downes Bruce Hunter (Deputy Secretary - COO) Development Torres Strait Regional Authority (John Kris, Chair) Outback Stores Pty Ltd State Islander Affairs Payment Service AND INDIGENOUS Employment, Marise Payne Rita Markwell Audrey Maag Liza Carroll (Deputy Secretary) Corporate Support Indigenous Leadership & Engagement Office of the Aboriginal Land Commissioner Australian Institute of Family Studies Ministerial Council on Gambling National Information Centre of Retirement Shadow Families and Housing, Kevin Shadow Disabilities, Carers and the Shadow for Supporting Families, Cory Bernardi Abbie Clark Alison Hill (Media) Andrew Tongue (Deputy Secretary) Information Management & Technology Housing & Homelessness Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (Howard Olney, Commissioner) Social Security Appeals Tribunal National Childcare Accreditation Council Inc Investments AFFAIRS (FaHCSIA) Andrews Voluntary Sector, Mitch Fifield Shadow for the Status of Women, Michaelia Keely Bell (Media) Rob Heferen (Deputy Secretary) Business & Financial Services Housing Delivery Program Performance Indigenous Land Corporation (Shirley Aboriginal Account Benefit Advisory Committee National Youth Roundtable National Youth Week, Young Carers Shadow Indigenous Affairs, Nigel Scullion Shadow Housing, Marise Payne Cash Jessica Walker (Media) *For Ellis’ see DEEWR McPherson, Chair) (Pat Brahim, Chair) Disaster Assist Office for Women

Penny Wong c Finance & Deregulation , Minister Assisting on Anthony Baker CoS Witherford, Paddy Fagan, David Tune Parliamentary Services) David Wiss (Industry, Education & Alan Greenslade (Funds & Superannuation) Kim Clarke (Ministerial & Parl Services) Australian Electoral Commission (Ed Electoral Council of Australia (Ed Killesteyn, Medibank Private Ltd (Paul McClintock, Government Domain Names FINANCE AND (Wong) Elizabeth Bateson, Astrid Ann Steward (Dep Sec - Australian Infrastructure) Jonathan Hutson (Superannuation Robin Renwick (Moorebank Project Office) Killesteyn, Cmr; Peter Heerey, Chair) Chair) Chair; George Savvides, Managing Director) GovDex Special Minister of State Deregulation Laura Anderson (Media) Serventy (Media) Government Information Management Office) Stephen Clively (Government & Defence) Administration Reform) Glenn Archer (Policy & Planning) Australian Political Exchange Council Future Fund Management Agency (David Military Super ICT Procurement DEREGULATION Kristina Hickey, David Adam Wand CoS David Yarra (Chief Audit Executive) McCann, Alicia Payne (Sherry), Joe Scavo David Martine (Dep Sec - Budget) Jenet Connell (COO) Peter McCray (Deregulation Policy) John Sheridan (Agency Services) Australian Procurement and Construction Murray, Chair) Defence Force Retirement and Death Office of Best Practice Regulation Shadow Finance, Deregulation and Debt Michelle Stone, Samuel (Senior Advisor), Shane Stein Helgeby (Dep Sec - Financial Lembit Suur (Financial Framework) Council (Mal Grierson, Chair) National Public Private Partnership Forum Benefits Scheme Albury-Wodonga Corporation (Bill Reduction, Trobe May (Superannuation) Management) Peter Saunders (Strategic Policy) Tim Youngberry (Financial Reporting & Cash Rick Scott-Murphy (Property & Construction) Michael Burton (CFO) Australian River Co. Limited Australian Reward Investment Alliance Parliamentary Retiring Allowances Trust Hanrahan, Chair) Shadow Small Business, Competition Shadow Small Business and Fair David Williams CoS Peter Downes Susan Page (Dep Sec - Deregulation) David Nicol (Budget Policy & Coordination) Management) John Edge (Government Business, Special Graham Fry (CIO) Australian Government Employees Commonwealth Superannuation AusTender Policy and Consumer Affairs, Bruce Bilson Competition, Scott Ryan (Gray), Anthony Marcus James Jan Mason (Dep Sec - Asset Management & David de Carvalho (Social Policy) John Grant (Procurement) Claims & Land Policy) Colin Plowman (Corporate Services) Superannuation Trust Administration (ComSuper) Commonwealth GITC 4

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Mining and Energy Union to fund a TV advertisement 16 years in opposition, and analysts are tipping it is than just delivering handouts. ‘The sector does not attacking Liberal leader Tony Abbott. GetUp! is now guaranteed at least two terms in government. need handouts and protection,’ secretary Paul Howes surveying its members on whether is should keep said. taking large donations, The Age reported. So little faith Liberals leading polls despite internal woes IndustrIal relatIons. A survey commissioned by the Australian Workers Despite continued speculation of leadership employment Union showed that worker confidence in the ALP is challenges and internal unrest, polls published in The waning. The results show that an increasing number Age and The Sydney Morning Herald showed that the Big hat in the ring of employees view Labor’s economic management as Coalition had kept its lead over Labor, and would have The Age reported that independent Bob Katter has bad compared with 12 months ago. formed government if the election had been held in offered strong support to the union campaign to mid-February. abolish the building industry watchdog, and also Surprise, surprise, unions want a rise! offered an impassioned defence of unionism and the Labor’s new workplace laws are helping trade unions Aid advisors get salary cut right to strike. In the latest sign of some of the unusual rebuild their presence in the mining sector, The Technical advisors to foreign aid programs will alliances that a hung parliament is producing, Katter, Financial Review reported. With the expiration of nearly have their luxurious salaries cut by 25 per cent, The a former National Party MP, joined forces with the left- half of the collective agreements in the resources Australian reported. The tax-free $500,000 salaries of wing Electrical Trades Union state secretary, Dean industry, the unions are regaining leverage, and have the highest-paid advisors were called into review last Mighell. vowed to continue pushing for pay increases as well May by then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. as higher employer superannuation contributions. Labor at pains to prevent pregnant pause The union movement’s aim is to accelerate the Re-energised Robb wants to play Hockey The Federal government is encouraging obstetricians government’s plan to raise superannuation from 9 to In a feature in the Herald Sun, senior Liberal Andrew to ignore pressure from expectant mothers wanting 12 per cent, which is currently scheduled for 2019-20. Robb declared his interest in taking over the to delay giving birth until after January 1 so they can Treasury portfolio, currently held by Joe Hockey. access the government paid parental leave scheme Networking skills Robb, who now swims 1500m a day to keep fit, has the government is worried that some mothers may put The union representing NBN workers, the emerged from a battle with depression and is keen their health and that of their unborn babies at risk by Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union today to re-establish himself as a key player in Australian seeking to delay giving until they are eligible for the called for Australians to regard the National Broadband politics. He is currently writing a book about his battle, scheme which offers 18 weeks of leave paid at the Network as a unique opportunity to enhance national highlighting his experience with medication which minimum wage working mothers. skills development, saying there was no need for initially worsened his depression. ‘What really struck a skills crisis to develop around the nation building me,’ Robb said, ‘was there were so many captains Timber! infrastructure project. of industry, most people would have heard of them, The union representing forestry workers has who in one way or another said to me, ‘welcome to conceded logging in the nation’s natural forests must Union builds high-raise ambitions the club.’’ stop, declaring an armistice in its 30-year war with The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy the environment movement. But the Construction, Union is seeking pay rises of up to 24 per cent over Gillard (firmly) on top Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union now wants the four years, according to an article published in The A string of political gaffes from opposition leader Tony green lobby and governments to secure the industry’s Australian. The move has sparked warnings from Abbott gave Julia Gillard her strongest personal long-term survival by agreeing to an expansion of employers that a raise of such nature would lead to support rating since she became Prime Minister, plantation forestry, The Australian reported. inflationary pressure, and would cause the Reserve according to a poll taken between February 18 and Bank to increase interest rates. 20. The poll showed Gillard leading Abbott 53-31 Unions to boycott ‘sham contracting’ enquiry as preferred Prime Minister, despite the two party Unions will boycott an enquiry into dodgy building Shipping changes could sink jobs preferred poll showing a 50-50 split between Labor industry contracting, despite union complaints that The Australian reported that, according to ‘big and the Coalition. The latest Newspoll, taken after the problem is rife and workers are being exploited businesses’, Julia Gillard’s proposed new shipping recent opposition disunity, suggests that the two party in sham arrangements. Australian Building and laws are a step in the wrong direction, and would edge that Abbott had been building may have been Construction Commissioner Leigh Johns recently lead to increased costs and reduced jobs. Responding wiped out. However, how voters will react to Gillard’s launched the ‘sham contracting’ enquiry and said there to the government’s discussion paper on shipping carbon tax remains to be measured... was ‘evidence of widespread abuse’ of contracting in reforms, the Australian Industry Group said it opposed the industry. But the ACTU will boycott the enquiry proposed changes to the system for foreign vessels. Don’t look back in anger, Kristina and ‘maintain its opposition to the ABCC’, which it NSW Premier Kristina Keneally admitted to misjudging wants abolished. About one third of contracting in the Union ruling a blow for employers the public’s anger over the multi-billion-dollar sale of Australian economy occurs in construction. A Federal Court ruling strengthening the rights of the state’s electricity assets, The Australian reported. Johns said although much of it was legitimate, there employees doing union business could result in But Keneally still refused to recall state parliament to were major problems. Sham contracting is when employers having less control over their staff, The remove the legal uncertainty surrounding the upper a relationship between an employer and worker Financial Review reported. house inquiry into the $5.3 billion sell-off. Despite is misrepresented as one where the employee is labelling the inquiry unconstitutional’, she and state providing a contract. This can allow bosses to avoid Labour training treasurer eventually appeared at providing leave, superannuation and higher wages Financial Review said that the Gillard government a hearing into the sale to ensure ‘transparency and while the employee can avoid higher rates of tax. But would have to shake up its apprenticeship scheme openness.’ the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union after a report Labor commissioned showed they were national secretary, David Noonan, said the watchdog not getting value from the $1.2 bn spent on training. NSW Liberal’s plan for victory was trying to ‘put lipstick on the pig’ with its enquiry. The New South Wales opposition frontbench has Work choices begun work on plans for the lead up to the March AWU Basin Plan In an exclusive, Howard government enforcer on 26 election and the coalition’s first 100 days in In the Financial Review the Australian Workers Union industrial relations and waterfront reform, Peter Reith government after that. Newspoll surveys suggest the said that any plan for the Murray Darling Basin should spoke about Work Choices with The Australian. He coalition will almost certainly win the election after encourage investment in regional Australia, rather challenged Tony Abbott and the Coalition to ‘not be

5 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011 afraid’ or ‘spooked’ by a Labor scare campaign on How the carbon tax will work could leave up to 2.6 million low income households Work Choices and produce labour market reforms The Australian made a dot point explanation of the better off and a further 1.7 million middle income in the national interest. Reith expects the industrial carbon tax as follows. households no worse off. It is believed that the relations climate to worsen this year as unions exploit •Fixed price per tonne of carbon from July 1 next year, spending, funded out of revenue raised by the tax, is generous right-of-entry clauses in Labor’s Fair Work •Polluters (power stations, factories, transport, likely to be delivered using a combination of tax and Act. mining and landfill operators) will be forced to buy welfare measures, including lifting tax concessions carbon permits to cover their green house emissions, for low-income earners and targeting tax cuts to help agriculture exempt, families on middle incomes. clImate chanGe. • Cost of carbon permits to increase annually for three envIronment. enerGy to five years, followed by a shift to a flexible market- Carbon tax and petrol based regime where permits can be traded, The greens have pushed petrol in the war over a Hello! Carbon price here. •Governments to review progress 12 months before carbon tax, insisting prices should rise at the bowser On February 24, the government released a press end of transition period, with option to postpone as part to the plan to combat pollution. Including statement and a supporting several page document/ market-based cap-and-trade scheme, 2020 target or transport in the carbon tax regime is expected to raise framework, outlining details of the Multi-Party emission target to be finalised ahead of the start of the petrol prices in a time of rising oil prices. Tony Abbott Climate Change Committee, outlining its plan to cap-and-trade scheme, said the carbon tax meant people would pay $300 cut pollution, tackle climate change and deliver the •Assistance for needy households and affected more a year on their electricity bills and 6.5c a litre economic reform Australia needs to move to a clean businesses, extra for petrol. energy future. •Carbon credits to be considered to support farming New South Wales opposition leader Barry O’Farrell and other land use practices. called on voters to make the March 26 state election ‘The two-stage plan for a carbon price mechanism •Still to be negotiated with the crossbenchers are the a referendum on the issue and vowed to travel to will start with a fixed price period for three to five years following. Canberra to lodge a protest against the carbon tax if before transitioning to an emissions trading scheme. •Starting price and annual increase per tonne to apply he won. The Government will propose that the carbon price from 2012, commences on July 1 2012, subject to the ability to •Length of the transition period between fixed and Uncertain times negotiate agreement with a majority in both houses of flexible price, The heads of Australia’s largest superannuation Parliament and pass legislation this year. •Final 2020 target for emissions cut, funds have in recent times, formed a group to lobby •Details of sectors to be covered, and when they will politicians for a carbon price, in the latest push by ‘A carbon price is a price on pollution. It is the come under the scheme, Details of compensation to business for certainty on climate policy. The new cheapest and fairest way to cut pollution and build households and businesses. panel includes the chief executives of Colonial First a clean energy economy. The best way to stop State, AMP Capital Investors and HESTA. Overall, businesses polluting and get them to invest in clean Carbon price to double the nine companies involved control $350b, The energy is to charge them when they pollute. The Age aired business and industry fears that the Age reported. Nearby, The Australian reported that cost of carbon will double by 2015-16 when the Julia Gillard has criticised claims that pricing carbon ‘The Government will then use every cent raised to: emissions trading scheme begins. The carbon tax will increase electricity charges, arguing that under- • Assist families with household bills that goes into effect from July 1 next year is currently investment in the sector is contributing to higher • Help businesses make the transition to a clean $20-$30 per ton. costs and the only way to attract the necessary energy economy investment is to put a price on carbon. The Prime • Tackle climate change Green with rage Minister’s comments in Question Time came as 258 The Gillard government has angered the Greens by major international investors representing $US15 ‘Right now, Australia is at risk of falling behind the insisting on compensation for the coal and electricity trillion in funds, made a call for the government to rest of the world. The longer we wait, the greater industries to soften the blow of carbon emission take action to spur private investment in low-carbon the cost to the economy, and the greater the cost regulations. technologies. to Australian jobs. An initial fixed carbon price will provide businesses with a stable and predictable Where Julia stands Industry wants in on secret carbon platform to transition to a ‘cap and trade’ emissions Julia Gillard has fended off allegations she lied when negotiations trading scheme that will be linked to international ruling out a carbon tax before the election by claiming A recent report in The Financial Review, and prior to carbon markets. This will give businesses time on 2GB and 3AW that voters knew where she stood 24 February, highlighted industry’s concern about the to understand their carbon liability and begin the on carbon pricing. secrecy surrounding carbon price negotiations and the transformation in a steady and purposeful way. This uncertainty this is creating. As negotiations continue, proposal is the result of hard work by the Multi-Party High stakes on carbon tax Julia Gillard faces a difficult task balancing concern Climate Change Committee. The framework has been The Age political editor Dennis Shanahan wrote about rising electricity prices, the desire within the agreed by Government and Greens members of the that Julia Gillard was staking her leadership on the energy sector for investment certainty, environmental Climate Change Committee. The other members, carbon tax. He said that the PM’s credibility rested needs and the position of emissions-intensive trade- Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott, have agreed on her ability to deliver an ‘acceptable price on exposed industries. that the proposal should be released for community emissions’. consultation. Chief scientist quits Gillard vs Thatcher Australia’s chief scientist, Professor Penny Sackett, The Committee will continue to discuss other The editor-at-large of The Australian, Paul Kelly, wrote has not met, or been invited to brief Prime Minister important elements of the proposal including the that Julia Gillard’s unblinking approach on carbon Julia Gillard on science policy issues, a senate starting level of the fixed price, any phasing in of pricing was either hurtling her towards ‘political estimates committee has been told. Sackett resigned sectors of the economy, and assistance for both suicide’ or recasting her ‘in a Thatcherite mantle to in late February, less than halfway through her five- households and industry. The document outlining prevail against the odds’. year appointment. the proposed carbon price mechanism is attached. Members of the public and interested parties who Carbon tax compensation She told the public hearing that Australia’s emission wish to provide input on this approach should contact According to The Age, Labor is preparing a multi- reduction targets were insufficient to prevent [email protected] billion dollar carbon tax compensation package that dangerous climate change. Asked by The Canberra

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Times what advice she might offer her successor May this year has collapsed. The government denied in the State and local planning processes that have in the role, Sackett said the government needed to the plan had been axed but was unable to provide any blocked investors from buying and developing vacant define the position more clearly. details of a time of implementation for the scheme, land. A departmental briefing prepared for the The Age reported. government warns of a shortfall of 304,000 dwellings Energy uncertainty by 2014, said just three sites had been sold as a An article in ENERGYNEWS discussed the International Solar games result of the Commonwealth land audit, a 2007 Labor Energy Agency’s annual World Energy Outlook 2010, More than $1b of taxpayers’ money was wasted on election commitment. The briefing by the Department which is the world’s most authoritative source of subsidies for household solar roof panels that favoured of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and energy market analysis and projections. It provides the rich and did little to reduce Australia’s greenhouse Community to minister Tony Burke, after this year’s critical and political insights into trends in energy gas emissions, a review has found. The review of election, also identified problems with other Labor and supply and what they mean for energy security, the now scrapped government solar rebate scheme, housing promises. environmental protection and economic development. conducted by ANU researchers Andrew Macintosh The WTO – 2010 report provides updated projections and Deb Wilkinson, also found the rebates did little to National focus on city water of energy demand, production, trade and investment, generate a solar manufacturing industry in Australia, According to The Australian, the National Water fuel-by-fuel and region-by-region to 2035. instead it sent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars Commission, the key water advisor to Julia Gillard offshore. Macintosh, deputy head of ANU’s Centre and the state premiers, is considering a new round of Oh, Canada for Climate Law and Policy, said the rebate had been reforms including linking prices to dam storage levels One of the world’s largest proposed carbon capture beautiful politics, terrible policy. and opening the water supply in cities and towns to and storage projects, based in Canada, is expected The program, started in 2000 with lower rebates, further competition. The commission is conducting to be granted $5m in funding by Australia’s Global offered households an $8,000 rebate to install solar research on the measures as it undertakes a landmark Carbon Capture and Storage Institute. Project Pioneer, power panels on their roofs. In total, the Government review of the National water initiative – the 2004 located in Alberta, Canada, is being developed by spent $1.1b installing 107,000 rooftop solar panels. intergovernmental deal to overhaul management of TransAlta Corporation. The funding is tipped to be In June last year the Rudd government cancelled water resources – that is due to be released in 2011. used to retrofit the companies’ jointly owned coal- the program with less than 24 hours notice after NWC acting chief executive James Cameron said fired power plant, currently under construction, with surging demand rendered the scheme financially there was a opportunity to roll-out reform to urban the technology set to capture 1 million tonnes of unsustainable. A less generous solar credits program water distribution as Australia moved out of the crisis greenhouse gas annually. The announcement came has since replaced the rebate, The Age reported. caused by a decade of drought. as the institute launched National Carbon Capture The Government later announced that subsidies for and Storage Week in Melbourne. Dale Seymour, household solar panels will end sooner than planned. It’s a biggy the Institute’s vice-president of strategy, said carbon The Age reported that Julia Gillard has put imposing capture would have to be part of the global effort to Nuclear debate warming a carbon price in the same league as of the historic bring down emissions. Former Prime Minister Kevin Former adviser to John Howard, and newly elected economic reforms of floating the dollar and cutting Rudd launched the Institute last year, providing it Liberal member for the Melbourne seat of Kooyong, tariffs of the Keating and Hawke governments, as with funding of $100m a year to improve knowledge- Josh Frydenberg, has called for a national debate on she steps up the Government’s effort to win support sharing about the technology and advance its nuclear power as a way of achieving environmental for the change. In an article in the same paper, the development, The Age reported. sustainability, the Financial Review reported. Prime Minister presents a stark choice to Australians, asserting that without a carbon price, electricity Persevering with preservation Climate deal turns up heat. prices will spiral, big investment decisions will remain An area equivalent to nearly eight per cent of the The Age reported that a last-minute agreement at on hold, our power supplies will begin to run short, continent should be added to Australia’s conservation United Nations talks in Mexico had increased pressure and clean energy jobs will be lost offshore. zones over the next five years to help preserve on the Gillard government to lift its ambition in tackling biodiversity, according to a recently released national climate change, with the Greens claiming Labour has Clunker dwarfs ETS strategy, The Age reported. The plan, released ‘no choice’ not to set a more ambitious target than a The government’s cash-for clunkers proposal by environment minister Tony Burke, will set ten 5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions. The deal would have cost 15 times more than an emissions targets to tackle the loss of plant and animal species included arrangements are protecting tropical rain trading scheme to reduce carbon pollution, and across the country. Meanwhile, Burke’s decision forests and a planned $US100 billion green climate no research has been conducted on the fallout on to skip United Nations talks aimed at slowing plant fund to help the most vulnerable nations cope with the used-car dealers from the vehicle buyback policy. and animal extinction has come under fire from the effects of climate change. According to The Australian, bureaucrats charged head of the World Wildlife Fund, who says political with administering the clean car rebate scheme have leadership will be crucial to getting a deal done. WWF Japan stalls ETS plan, more pressure on confirmed that compliance to ensure vehicles were director-general Jim Leape said he understood a Julia scrapped was a ‘major concern’ overseas. Under the strong representation of environment ministers would Japan’s decision to postpone its plans for an plan, owners of cars manufactured before January 1, attend the second week of talks, with some already emissions trading scheme by 2013 has increased 1995, would have been eligible for a $2000 rebate arriving. The meeting was attempting to establish pressure on Julia Gillard over her goal of pricing when they bought a new car with a green vehicle a new 10-year agreement to preserve the world’s carbon by next year. The decision comes after the US greenhouse rating of six or above. The scheme environment. also stepped back from a national emissions trading was capped at 200,000 vehicles over four years. scheme and as international firms remain concerned BY February, the Clunkers programme, along with Another project… about the lack’s pollution controls in China, which several other environmentally-oriented programmes, The mandatory reporting of the energy efficiency in has no obligations under the Kyoto protocol. Climate was clunked as a part of cost cutting to pay for the millions of homes across Australia is being delayed by minister Greg Combet has repeatedly argued that federal government contribution to the Queensland the government with no date set for its implementation. Australia is ‘locking our economy into failure’ without flood repairs The delay with the household energy efficiency rating a cabon price. scheme follows the disastrous home insulation NSW power goes private and green loans schemes. An agreement by states, Affordable housing in ruins The New South Wales government has completed territories and the federal Government signed in July The Financial Review said that a key Federal one of the last of the country’s biggest asset 2009, to introduce mandatory disclosure of the energy government policy to increase the supply of affordable privatisations, selling the state energy retailers and efficiency of all homes at the time of sale or lease from housing has failed because environmental hurdles the output of electricity generators. This conclusion to

7 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011 the protracted power privatisation is set to trigger a federal election that the standards would not apply to On a wing and a prayer major share market float and separate rights issue as existing stations and were aimed at ensuring that dirty A report titled ‘The State of Australia’s Birds 2010: TRUenergy and Origin Energy snare the prized assets. power stations were never again built in Australia. The Islands and Birds’ was released as a supplementary As revealed exclusively online by The Australian, CLP electricity generators have joined Australia’s biggest to the December issue of Wingspan, Vol. 20, no. 4, Holdings’ TRUenergy unit will purchase the state’s miners and banks in warning that the government the national magazine of birds. It contains 52 pages of largest electricity retailer, Energy Australia, and the is raising sovereign risk concerns that could spook fascinating stories and photos of birds in and around trading rights to the output of Delta West Power investors. the Australian continent. Join Birds Australia, www. Station. Origin Energy will acquire both Country birdsaustralia.com.au Energy and Integral Energy, as well as the gentrader Smells fishy rights for Eraring power station. Ten billion litres of environmental water was released into the lower Goulburn River in a bid to clean up the weather Green Scheme dumped the river and protect native fish, the Department of At the end of December Julia Gillard’s government Sustainability and Environment said yesterday. Mark Cyclone Yasi dumped ‘yet another bungled environment scheme’ Bailey, of Goulburn Murray River Water, said the black In the early hours of February 3, tropical cyclone Yasi and has been forced to offer $30 million in water was caused by the rapid decay of leaves and made landfall in Queensland. The category 5 storm compensation to 10,000 people who will be out of twigs accumulated during floods. The decay caused was the largest to hit the mainland since 1918, and work as a consiquence, according to the Herald Sun. low oxygen levels in the water and suffocated fish and brought 290k/h winds and heavy rain to the region There is now no major policy to encourage funds to other aquatic life. Claiming the government had acted with wet weather experienced all the way down in be energy-efficient and fight rising electricity prices. too late, Jodie Ross of south east Mildura said ‘ the Melbourne as a result. There was serious damage black water has wiped out the Murray River, all the from Cairns to Townsville, with the Financial Review The $212 million green start scheme which has been fish are dead.’ the next day calling the disaster a ‘$1bn king-hit’ promised to begin before the end of the year had been to the state. The cyclone would compound the scrapped after the government admitted it had no Burning irony devastation from the floods, which was already billed confidence in it. Instead, it is bringing back the axed In an ironic twist, Victoria’s wet spring has actually left at $5.6bn. ‘green loans scheme’ – for just two months – before the state at increased risk of bushfires, The Australian it too will be closed down on February 28. Climate reported. The rain has meant that controlled burning Levy politics change Minister, Greg Combet, said there were efforts were severely restricted, which leaves more The flood levy proposed by Julia Gillard, which would ‘major risks’ associated with the green starts scheme fuel for potential bushfires when the weather heats help pay for reconstruction and assistance to flood as it relied on poor quality data that has been criticised up. ravaged and cyclone damaged areas, dominated by the auditor general. political discussion and headlines for some time in EPA wants coal plant to be squeaky clean early February. The levy will come in the form of a Watter pumped into flooded Murry-Darling Approval for Victoria’s $750 million coal-fuelled tax of 0.5 per cent on income over $50,000 and 1 per Snow-Hydro chief executive Terry Charlton power station has been put temporarily on hold cent on income over $100,000. The Age described confirmed to The Australian that thousands of litres while the Environmental Protection Agency clarifies the flood levy as ‘designed with politics, as much as of water were dumped into the Murray-Darling basin, key aspects of the plant’s design, The Financial revenue in mind’, and the divisive discussions that but claimed the authority had little choice. He said ‘… Review reported. The EPA has requested additional followed support the claim. According to a Newspoll we took as much as possible into storage to mitigate information from HRL, the company behind the taken at the time voters supported the levy. However, the floods. But by Thursday and Friday we didn’t have proposed 600 megawatt plant, before it will continue at the same time Labor recorded their recorded their the capacity to store it.’ its assessment for a permit. The plant is being pitched lowest two party preferred numbers since Gillard took as a clean-coal project because it dries and ‘gasifies’ office in June last year, falling 2 points behind the Clean power backlash the coal before it is burnt. Coalition. The Australian speculated that the governments push to mandate clean power stations could backfire as $5.5 billion carbon waste Green washout electricity generators threatened to delay upgrades The Age reported that, despite $5.5 billion of federal The bill for flood reconstruction is not just being funded to dirty coal-fired facilities. In a submission to the funding, climate change programs have barely by the levy. Green programs have been slashed to government obtained by The Australian, the power reduced greenhouse gas emissions. An analysis of help raise $2.8bn. The ‘cash-for-clunkers’ program generators say tough new carbon pollution standards the schemes showed that they have cost an average has been ditched for a saving of $429 million, but at could apply to expansions to old power stations. of $168 for each tonne of carbon dioxide reduced. the cost of breaking a Julia Gillard election promise. This is despite Julia Gillard’s vow during last year’s According to The Age, $1bn is expected to be saved

8 LETTER FROM CANBERRA by delaying infrastructure projects around the country, Abbott’s dam good solution also freeing up skilled labour for reconstruction. According to The Australian, Tony Abbott is to health develop a plan for the construction of a series of dams Brisbane bog around Australia. Such a plan would be part of the States agree on federal health Mid January Brisbane got its share of Australia’s wet Coalition’s policy platform for the next election that is The Financial Review reported that state premiers weather, with The Australian describing the Brisbane aimed at reducing the impact of floods and boosting agreed to sign up to Julia Gillard’s national healthcare River as having ‘turned the city into a mudflat’. food security. Abbott said he would announce a reform, but only after a long row over how to oversee taskforce of senior Coalition frontbenchers charged more than $16.4 billion in new funding. The premiers Insurance against compassion with preparing a dam plan within 12 months. This rejected a proposed federal mechanism that would Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Prime Minister would include possible locations for dams, and would control funding from a national pool, but eventually Julia Gillard have called on insurance companies to build on the $500 million the Coalition promised at the agreed to a conditional deal that leaves them room pay claims to flood victims who were not fully covered. last election to make water more available. to extract more concessions. However, less than 24 Treasurer Wayne Swan and assistant treasurer Bill hours after signing the agreement, WA Premier Colin Shorten engaged the companies at an industry Abbott plan damned Barnett and his Victorian counterpart Ted Baillieu meeting but failed to get them to commit to the Tony Abbott’s dam proposal has been criticised vowed to maintain full control of their hospital systems government’s suggestions. as simplistic by the federal government, by restricting the peak funding agency at the heart of environmentalists and researchers. According to the Gillard’s plan. Government pours funds into Queensland Herald Sun, they argue dams would not necessarily Julia Gillard announced the diversion of more have saved Queensland homes from floods and often Delivered deal government funds to Queensland in a bid to save created their own ecological disasters. The opposition Prime Minister Julia Gillard has, according to The the state from an economic crisis as it deals with the leader insisted it was time dams were put back on the Age, stared down state leaders to deliver $126.4 aftermath of the December floods, The Australian agenda. He said that after the 1974 Brisbane floods bn into the health system. In return, the states will reported. Clean-up grants of up to $25,000, along the Wivenhoe dam was built ‘and there has been provide absolute transparency about how they spend with low interest loans, will be given in addition to the no serious floods in Brisbane or the Brisbane Valley the federal money. commonwealth’s normal emergency relief payments. since’. Will nothing be done Flooded with calls for Murray-Darling plan to PM doesn’t give a dam about Tony’s plan The government, in the face of Australian Medical be washed away Julia Gillard ridiculed Tony Abbott’s planned dam Association opposition, will delay the $450m launch The already embattled Murray-Darling rescue plan taskforce, noting that the Coalition had campaigned of a landmark health reform until at least 2014. The came under increased scrutiny in the aftermath of against new dams in Queensland and NSW in recent scheme had been hailed by Labor as a means of the Queensland floods, with the huge volume of years, The Australian reported. Gillard said that the providing co-ordinated care for diabetes patients who floodwater flowing into the system prompting calls for Opposition Leader’s announcement was ‘against a routinely need services from a variety of different the project to be delayed, or even scrapped altogether. backdrop where members of Tony Abbott’s political health professionals. But the AMA has resisted the National Farmers Federation president Jock Laurie party have consistently opposed dam developments.’ key feature that would replace fee-for-service with told The Australian six months of strong flows into the an annual bulk payment by the government of around system ‘buys the government time to sit back and Dam straight $1,000 for the patient’s medical practice, The Age make sure they get this right.’ However, the Australian The Australian reported that dam building may still be reported. Conservation Foundation continued its calls for the on the national agenda following a report that finds Gillard government to go ahead with the plan as that water, energy and carbon emissions need a new, IBM ICT extension scheduled. federally coordinated regulation system. The report The federal health department has extended its – commissioned by the Prime Minister’s Science, technology services agreement with IBM by $109 Research can be a good idea Engineering and Innovation Council and prepared by million. The value includes a modification to the last At the end of August 2010, assistant director general the Chief Scientist, Penny Sackett – viewed energy 12 months of the existing contract. The Australian of Queensland’s Office of Climate Change, Greg and water finite resources and found that treating one wrote that the contract renewal is further proof that Withers, filed an application for federal funding for a resource independently could harm the others. Health and IBM are joined at the hip – no other IT research project into the possibility of a catastrophic company was invited to tender for the business, flood in Queensland’s coastal regions, The Australian Bligh asks for further federal flood funding a procurement process dubbed direct sourcing. reported. Withers, husband of Queensland premier Anna Bligh pressured the federal government to Health was especially concerned new vendor Anna Bligh, believed that the threat of simultaneous dramatically increase its contribution to the flood agreements could have an adverse impact on the river flooding and storm-tide inundation had never relief fund, as the state’s damage bill soared above $5 Gillard government’s health reforms. The department been properly investigated. ‘There has been very little billion, The Financial Review reported. awarded IBM a four-year extension until June 30, research on the impact of these combined events to It looks as though the federal government will have to 2015. The range of technology and communications inform emergency response and planning constraints,’ foot 75 per cent of the cost of rebuilding the state’s support covers desktops, midrange computers, Withers said in his funding submission. Now, given critical infrastructure, which raises concerns that the networks, storage, help desk, end user computing the extent of the Queensland flood disaster, Withers’ Prime Minister might not be able to reach her goal of services and mainframes. IBM will also oversee a submission seems disturbingly prophetic, and serves returning the federal budget to surplus by 2011. technology update that covers mainframe software, as a reminder of what more could have been done to user environment and IPv6 deployment. It will deploy prepare for the disaster. Fire report a virtualised thin client desktop solution across the According to the Financial Review, former Australian entire department from the first half of 2011. The Disaster could trigger flood of support for Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty will lead health department and its IT sourcing consultant Bligh the review into February’s devastating bush fires studied various outsourcing options ahead of the The Queensland floods could save Anna Bligh’s job, in the Perth hills area in which 71 homes were lost. expiry of the current agreement in June 2011. Andrew Fraser wrote in The Australian. The premier Keelty will drive a review to examine the causes of had the support of less than 1 in 4 Queenslanders the fires, including the lack of prescribed burning in E-health at home before the floods, but her handling of the situation the area. NSW health has been awarded up to $4 million in could give much needed momentum going into the federal funding to trial the delivery of health services next election. to the homes of elderly patients using the national

9 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011 broadband network. Yet even before deployment of the HealthSmart Design Authority said. It found that than the major banks, which had behaved arrogantly the NBN, Australians can expect a roll-out of online misidentification of a patient association with an IHI, in raising rates beyond the official RBA rate rises. health consultations when new Medicare tele-health and the inability to identify a patient via an IHI in a rebates commence in July. healthcare setting were the two critical risks of using A bank by any other name the IHI system on its own. (Small) credit unions have been lobbying for changes During the election campaign, Julia Gillard committed to the protection of the word ‘bank’. Credit societies to $250 million over 4 years to fund the Medicare Disability levy proves divisive can use ‘banking’ to describe a business – but only rebates – removing a huge financial barrier to Debate about a national disability insurance scheme institutions with $50 million in special capital may widespread adoption – plus $57 million for incentives has heated up after West Australian Premier use ‘bank’ or ‘banker’ in their business names. for GP and specialist uptake, and $35 million for Colin Barnett refused to support a levy to fund it, The Reserve Bank in 1996 said this high buffer training. A health department spokeswoman was The Financial Review reported. The Productivity was ‘one of the simplest and most effective means quoted in The Australian: ‘Some surgeries are already Commission is expected to recommend the federal of discouraging unsuitable shareholders from equipped for online consultations and will be able to government consider a universal disability insurance attempting to gain banking authority’. But Louise start delivering these services right away. As the NBN program as part of a major overhaul of the welfare Petschler, chief executive of the credit unions and rolls out over the next eight years, surgeries around system. It would most likely rely upon a levy to fill a building societies umbrella group Abacus, said the country will be supported with the bandwidth shortfall in disability funding worth approximately $5 ‘banking’ should become part of the regulatory to deliver the services of today, as well as those of billion. description. Australian Bankers Association chief tomorrow.’ executive Steven Munchenburg said his organization Good care can’t be rushed did not have strong views on the subject. Pick and choose The federal government’s plan to have all emergency The government is choosing locations for its 65 GP patients treated within four hours sounds good, but Working for the banks super clinics, at a cost of more than $600m, free of doctors say the target will lead to hasty decisions and The Australian reported that Julia Gillard won oversight by the Health Department. The secretary endanger lives. An article in The Age reported that the significant concessions for Australian banks at the of the Health Department, Jane Halton, made it target, which was due for implementation in February G20 summit as all four major banks pushed their clear at a Senate estimates committee hearing that but has now been pushed back, is not necessarily mortgage rates beyond the Reserve Bank’s official the criteria for selecting sites was a matter for the going to mean better care for patients. movement. Global leaders at the G20 summit in Seoul government, not her department. ticked new stricter global banking limits, but the Prime Minister and Wayne Swan successfully argued Brown ribbon day banks against uniform rules and secured special treatment Frustration with the Government’s indecision about for Australian banks. cancer screenings prompted a leading specialist to Potting the banks call for a ‘brown ribbon day’. Associate Professor The chief executives of the major banks are being The rules will be enforced: you can bank on and Bowel Cancer Foundation chairman Graham forced to defend their earnings before a Senate it Newstead says bowel cancer is more preventable, inquiry after ANZ Banking Group announced a record The Financial Review reported that John Laker, yet kills more Australians, than breast cancer. An $4.5b full-year profit. The bank’s chief executive Mike chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation extension of the free bowel screening program is yet Smith questioned shadow treasurer Joe Hockey’s Authority, will take a tough stance on applying new to be confirmed. It is due to finish at the end of this economic credentials and warned that his views global banking rules, despite protests from banks that year. So far, the Government has failed to guarantee were dangerous to the economy, the Financial Review the rules could increase pressure on mortgage rates. or expand the scheme to pick up an estimated reported. Wayne Swan branded Commonwealth 5.4 million people at risk who are missing out. The Bank of Australia’s decision in December to lift Nearby Norris campaign funding warms up when the Cancer mortgage rates, by close to double the Reserve Prime Minister Julia Gillard has declared she is Council Australia and independent MP Tony Windsor Bank’s increase, ‘a cynical cash grab’ and vowed uncomfortable with high levels of executive pay, as host a breakfast for MPs in Canberra to lobby for the to introduce reforms to boost competition between the country’s top paid executive, Commonwealth screening program to be continued. Bowel cancer is lenders. The Herald Sun reported that the government Bank of Australia boss Ralph Norris, defended his the nation’s second biggest cancer killer and second is looking at banning exit fees – which can cost more $16m remuneration, the Financial Review reported. most common internal cancer, The Age reported. than $1,000 – to give consumers more flexibility in managing their loans. RBA First Much obliged The Financial Review reported that the Reserve Bank Intellectual Property Australia has told the government Next of Australia has appointed its first female assistant that its plain packaging measures for cigarettes might Treasurer Wayne Swan is preparing a new wave of governor, who will oversee the area of currency. not meet its intellectual property treaty obligations, banking reforms, pledging to bring down interest Michelle Bullock, who will be one of six assistant The Age reported. rates with mortgage exit fee bans to be considered by governors, will be responsible for the distribution, Cabinet soon. The Australian reported that Westpac quality and security of Australian banknotes. Health plan pan chief executive Gail Kelly has called for calm in the An angry Kevin Rudd has slammed Julia Gillard’s escalating battle between Australia’s major banks No place for politics on RBA board health package in cabinet sources told The Age. and the government over interest rates and the threat New RBA guidelines obtained by The Financial Review He criticised the revised plan, saying the federal of greater regulation of the industry. suggested that the Reserve Bank should avoid government needs to be the sole funder of primary appointing trade unionists or major political donators healthcare, and the dominant funder of hospitals. She warned that any moves to increase competition to its board in a bid to remove possible conflicts of in the banking market could have unintended interest. This has been aided by the establishment of E-service not so healthy consequences, potentially leading to banks and a register of candidates for appointment to the nine- Victorian e-health experts warned that the new credit unions taking bigger and possibly dangerous member board, a move made after the election of the nation-wide Individual Healthcare Identifier system risks as they chase market share. The Herald Sun Rudd government. is too dangerous to use on its own, The Australian reported that Swan said he wanted non-bank reported. The 16-digit identification system, which lenders to take on the big four as the fifth pillar in Reform cost upwards of $90 million, should only be used in the finance system. Swan said building societies and The Financial Review reported Swan outlined conjunction with an existing Unit Record Number, credit unions offered mortgage rates up to 1% lower measures to allow banks to tap into the $1.2 trillion

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Julia Gillard vs. Tony Abbott – By Gender Julia Gillard vs. Tony Abbott – By Gender Better Prime Minister: Gillard vs. Abbott Better Prime Minister: Gillard vs. Abbott Electors were asked: “Thinking of Ms. Gillard and Mr. Abbott. In your opinion, who would make the better Prime MinisterElectors were– Ms. asked: Gillard “Thinking or Mr. Abbott?” of Ms. Gillard and Mr. Abbott. In your opinion, who would make the better Prime Minister – Ms. Gillard or Mr. Abbott?” Electors 18+ Men Women Electors 18+ Men Women Dec 8-12, Feb 1-3, Feb 21-23, Dec 8-12, Feb 1-3, Feb 21-23, Dec 8-12, Feb 1-3, Feb 21-23, Dec2010 8-12, Feb2011 1-3, Feb 21-23,2011 Dec 8-12,2010 Feb 20111-3, Feb 21-23,2011 Dec 8-12,2010 Feb 1-3,2011 Feb 21-23,2011 2010% 2011% 2011% 2010% 2011% 2011% 2010 % 2011 % 2011 % Gillard %46 %49 %51 %46 % 44 % 47 % 47 % 53 % 56 GillardAbbott 4639 4936 5135 4641 44 41 47 42 47 38 53 31 56 28 Abbott 39 36 35 41 41 42 38 31 28 Gillard lead 7 13 16 5 3 5 9 22 28 Gillard lead 7 13 16 5 3 5 9 22 28 Other / Other / 15 15 14 13 15 11 15 16 16 15 15 14 13 15 11 15 16 16 Neither TOTAL 100100 100100 100100 100100 100100 100100 100100 100 100 100 100

Approval ofof LeadersLeaders – – Julia Julia Gillard Gillard vs. vs. Tony Tony Abbott Abbott

Prime Minister:Minister: Julia Julia Gillard Gillard Electors werewere asked:asked: “Do“Do you you APPROVE APPROVE or or DISAPPROVE DISAPPROVE of ofthe the way way Ms Ms. Gillard. Gillard is handling is handling her herjob asjob Prime as Prime Minister?” Analysis byby SexSex (Approve/ (Approve/ Disapprove Disapprove – –Julia Julia Gillard) Gillard) ElectorsElectors 18+ 18+ MenMen WomenWomen DecDec 8-12, 8-12, FebFeb 1-3, 1-3, FebFeb 21-23, 21-23, DecDec 8-12, 8-12, FebFeb 1-3, 1-3, Feb Feb 21-23, 21-23,DecDec 8-12, 8-12, Feb Feb1-3, 1-3,Feb 21-23,Feb 21-23, 20102010 20112011 20112011 20102010 20112011 20112011 20102010 20112011 20112011 %% %% %% %% % % % % % % % % % % Approve 4949 4646 4646 4646 43 43 45 45 52 52 48 48 47 47 Disapprove 3838 4242 4040 4343 46 46 42 42 32 32 38 38 38 38 Approve –– 1111 44 6 6 3 3 (3)(3) 3 3 20 20 10 10 9 9 Disapprove Can’t say 1313 1212 1414 1111 11 11 13 13 16 16 14 14 15 15 TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

Opposition Leader: Tony Abbott Opposition Leader: Tony Abbott Electors were asked: “Do you APPROVE or DISAPPROVE of the way Mr. Abbott is handling his job as Leader Electorsof the Opposition?” were asked: “Do you APPROVE or DISAPPROVE of the way Mr. Abbott is handling his job as Leader of the Opposition?” Analysis by Sex (Approve/ Disapprove – Tony Abbott) Analysis by Sex (Approve/ Disapprove – Tony Abbott) Electors 18+ Men Women Dec 8-12, ElectorsFeb 1-3, 18+Feb 21-23, Dec 8-12, Feb 1-3,Men Feb 21-23, Dec 8-12, Feb 1-3,Women Feb 21-23, Dec2010 8-12, Feb2011 1-3, Feb2011 21-23, Dec2010 8-12, 2011Feb 1-3, 2011Feb 21-23, 2010Dec 8-12, 2011Feb 1-3, 2011Feb 21-23, 2010% 2011% %2011 %2010 %2011 %2011 % 2010 % 2011 % 2011 Approve 50% 39% 36% 51% 40 % 41 % 48 % 39 % 31 % DisapproveApprove 3950 4639 5636 4051 4740 54 41 38 48 45 39 59 31 Approve – Disapprove 1139 (7)46 (20)56 1140 (7)47 (13)54 10 38 (6) 45 (28) 59 DisapproveApprove – 11 (7) (20) 11 (7) (13) 10 (6) (28) DisapproveCan’t say 11 15 8 9 13 5 14 16 10 Can’tTOTAL say 10011 10015 1008 1009 10013 100 5 100 14 100 16 100 10 TOTAL 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100

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The industry executive said the The debate continues Democracy deadline package – announced on the eve of the start of the The Largest project in the nations history is being According to the Financial Review, Telstra has set a Senate inquiry into banking competition – contained launched without a proper cost-benefit analysis. The deadline of July 1 for a shareholder vote on whether little support the promised to create a fifth pillar in Financial review quote from December 21, the editor’s or not to hand it’s fixed line phone monopoly to NBN Australian banking from credit unions and building opinion ‘A network to nowhere’. Co. The vote would end two years of shareholder societies. uncertainty over the $11 bn deal. Leighton out to flex its telco arm What about us The Age reported Leighton is cementing its position NBN at risk of attack ACTU president Ged Kearney has slammed the as a wholesale competitor to Telstra, with subsidiary The Australian reported that tougher security selection process for the RBA board, saying that Nextgen signing commercial contracts in mid measures were needed to prevent cyber-attacks the present board ‘is comprised of a narrow group November last year to sell services on a 6,000km on the National Broadband Network. A report by of people who are unrepresentative of the broader government-funded fibre-optic highway. the think-tank Kokoda Foundation highlighted the national interest and lacks community engagement,’ risk, saying that the $36 billion network needed to The Financial Review reported. Kearney said that the Doubts linger on NBN be accompanied by tougher regulations to protect it board, which is largely comprised of members of the Australia’s powerful business lobby says a cost benefit against threats ranging from foreign cyber-spies to corporate world, is missing ‘voices representative of analysis of the national broadband network is still, local criminals. the mass of the community’. The Australia Institute needed despite the release of key details about the senior research fellow David Richardson told The giant project. The business Council of Australia said Asbestos threatens health of NBN rollout Financial Review that many members of the present ‘only a rigorous and transparent cost-benefit analysis’ The rollout of the $36 bn national broadband network board could be seen to be in breach of the selection could determine whether the investment was ‘in the will be hindered by asbestos in existing pipes, ducts guidelines as they came from companies that were national interest’. and pits, but the federal government insists that members of the Business Council of Australia. the associated costs have already been taken into NBN business case row account. Swiss banks blown According to the Financial Review, Prime Minister The federal government is in the process of Julia Gillard has dismissed calls for a more detailed ‘ii’m ready for change’ says ISP boss renegotiating its tax treaty with Switzerland. The analysis of the national broadband network, declaring iiNet boss Michael Malone said that the Financial Review pointed out that a new agreement that the business plan of the project shows that national broadband network will reshape the could lift the veil of secrecy protecting Australians with taxpayers $ 27.5 billion investment will be ‘repaid with telecommunications industry during the next decade Swiss bank accounts. interest’. Labor’s defence of its most controversial and convince some household names to enter the and expensive project came despite an admission by market. ‘People throw the word ‘transformational’ Islamic banking NBN Co. chief Mike Quigley that the seven per cent around a lot, but I really do think the NBN is going to Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi is looking for party internal rate of return highlighted in the study was not change the face of telecommunications over the next room support to maintain barriers on sharia- a ‘commercial return’. 10 years,’ Malone told The Financial Review. After compliant financial products and stop any moves to purchasing Netspace and the retail customers of expand Islamic banking in Australia. Bernardi sent a ACCC broadband broadside AAPT in 2010, Perth-based iiNet is now the country’s background brief to his colleagues and The competition watchdog has forced the company third-biggest ISP, behind Telstra and Optus. said he had already received a great deal of positive building the national broadband network to redesign feedback, The Australian reported. the network, saying in its original form it would Abbott questions integrity of NBN boss, gets have destroyed competition between optical-fibre impassioned response providers, with just 14 connection points into the The Financial Review reported that Mike Quigley, broadband & Ict network. The business plan released on the 20th of chief executive of NBN Co, hit back at Tony December confirms that the NBN Co. will need 27.5 Abbott’s suggestion that his integrity is tarnished Business plan out in open, a little billion of government funds to build the network over by his previous involvement with Alcatel-Lucent, On Monday, 20 December, the government released 9.5 years, and will enter the debt markets in 2015 to a US company which has recently been fined $137 the full business plan for the $ 36 billion national raise a further 13.4 billion. It expects a certain per cent million for bribes paid by unnamed directors. Abbott broadband network. A brief version of the plan was rate of return over 30 years and expects to be entering questioned Quigley’s track-record, asking ‘can we released in November to help secure votes from a net income period by 2021. be confident that the national broadband network independent senators for new telecommunications is being administered better than Alcatel was?’ But legislation, though it under whelmed both the Price shock looms for some on NBN Quigley, who was never investigated in relation to investment community and the federal opposition. Some households could be forced to pay more for the bribes, described Abbott’s attack as ‘just simply The new plan raises concerns about the necessary a basic internet service when they are compulsorily misinformed.’ speed of the build, and the availability of skilled labour switched over to the $36 billion national broadband according to NBN Co.’s head of cooperate relations, network, according to the business plan released Wireless could undermine NBN plan Kevin Brown. by NBN Co. The long-awaited plan predicted that The Australian reported an admission from Labor households will have to pay between $53 and $58 advisors that the popularity of wireless internet could NBN Co. bypass a month for the most basic entry-level offering – seriously threaten the economics of the National The Financial Review reports that one of Australia’s compared with today’s ‘naked ADSL’ plans that start Broadband Network. With Tesltra about to unveil newest telecommunications players is calling on at about $30. a huge upgrade to its mobile network which will the Federal government to cut out the middleman mean download speeds comparable to the NBN, a and allow it to buy services directly from satellite Daring to dream large review has found that competition from alternative operators instead of through NBN Co, the company National Affairs correspondent for The Age, Catherine technologies is a key risk to NBN Co’s attempts to set up to build and operate the national broadband Murphey wrote that the broadband network will be sign up homes quickly. Telstra will roll out the Lon- network. Indigo Telecom, which has been providing a long, hard sell, and it’s telling Labor is taking it on. Term Evolution standard (LTE), which is capable of

15 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011 download speeds of up to 150 megabits per second at customer service standards, and its chairman Chris Abbott to consider more refugees peak performance, although it is significantly slower Chapman has said he is surprised that the telcos did Opposition leader Tony Abbott said he would consider as more people use the network. The vendor to supply not come up with more constructive solutions to issues a modest expansion of Australia’s annual intake the equipment for the wireless network is due to be they admit are major problems in their responses to of refugees, but again rejected claims that he once announced shortly, with Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson the consultation paper. Telco companies have given a offered to double the figure in exchange for Andrew rumoured to be in the running. The LTE network will lot of lip service to fixing customer service, but they’re Wilkie’s support in forming government. ‘We could cover large swaths of the population, including 4 per still getting it wrong. The reason why comes down to look at a modest expansion of our refugee intake… cent of those outside the NBN fibre optic reach. That three things: inherent business complexity, limited move it up to 15,000 provided people are coming to leaves 3 per cent of the population to get their internet competition and a lack of executive focus. the front door.’ In 2009-2010 a total of 13,770 refugee through next generation satellite services. visas were granted. Safe in space NBN – have we created a monster? Australia will be able to monitor natural disasters, Much-needed migrants kept waiting International Law Firm Allen & Overy told The Financial climate change and weather patterns more effectively An Immigration Department processing a backlog Review that Australia’s national broadband network under a new agreement with the United States on civil of up to 28 months is keeping more than 140,000 could become so powerful that competition laws will space collaboration. The Joint Statement on Bilateral skilled migrants in limbo, despite warnings from need to be tightened to crimp its growth. Cooperation in the Civil Use of GPS and Civil Space business leaders of a looming skills shortage and Federal spending up by lucky 13per cent for IT Activities reinforces Australia’s long-term partnership wage breakout driven by a resurgent economy, The sector with the US in support of our shared interests in civil Australian reported. The Financial Review reported that Canberra’s space systems. ‘Civil space infrastructure is critical to spending on information and communication all Australians,’ said Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Tighter PR laws create dead-end for technology rose 13 per cent to $5.3 billion last year, Industry, Science and Research. international students fresh analysis by the government advisory firm According to The Australian, around 150,000 Intermedium shows. Despite this, the number of international students seeking permanent residency contracts signed in that time rose only a modest 3 in Australia have had the door all but slammed in per cent to 17,300. Both of these figures are expected ImmIGratIon their face by abrupt changes to immigration laws. to rise in coming weeks due to delays in federal The changes, aimed at better linking immigration to agencies publishing contract details to Austender, Risking the lives of children labour demand, give priority to employer-sponsored the government’s procurement information system. The Herald Sun reported that the number of children applicants, but also mean that the number of The big winners in the sector were Hewlett-Packard being taken on dangerous sea crossings to Australia occupations in demand has been more than halved. ($853m), Lockhead Martin ($283m), and Elbit has exploded since the government declared two Information obtained by The Australian from the Systems ($349m), with IBM coming off worst after months ago it would free women and children from Department of Immigration warned that the students a contract devaluation of over $350m ($546m down detention. In October last year 141 children arrived were aggrieved by the changes and had begun to to $190m). by boat, up from 58 in September and Department mobilise and plan protests. Gautam Gupta, founder of Immigration figures show 124 arrived by sea in of the Federation of Indian Students of Australia, said No clouds over new technology, report says November. the more serious danger was not protests but the The Cloud Computing Strategic Direction Paper, damage that would be done to Australia’s reputation a report released by the Department of Finance, Dozens perish in boat disaster as students returned home with tales of being ripped suggested that federal agencies adopt internet- The Age put the death toll from the Christmas Island off by having the rules changed on them. based cloud computing services. These services boat tragedy on the night of Wednesday December allow for technology resources to be leased via the 26, amid questions over how a boat carrying up to Deluge of cases expected as refugees get internet rather than bought outright. The report’s only 70 asylum seekers got so far, and so much trouble, their day in court proviso is that the technologies leased must be fit for without being intercepted or assisted. It was reported The Australian reported that the Gillard government the purpose, provide value for money and meet data that Prime Minister Julia Gillard cut short her holidays was expecting a wave of asylum seeker claims to security requirements. However, the report also found and returned to work to deal with the disaster. swamp the legal system in the wake of a High Court that other countries have been far more proactive than ruling that raises serious questions about the value Australia in adopting this technology. Bolt’s Boat opinion of offshore processing. Responding to the ruling, Anrew Bolt wrote his opinion on the asylum boat Immigration Minister Chris Bowen announced Number representing chaos tragedy in the Herald Sun on the December 17 stating the government would appoint two new federal Australia’s telephone numbering system could be that: ‘The Christmas island deaths were avoidable. magistrates specifically to deal with the expected thrown into chaos as more calls are made on mobile The Gillard government’s soft policies are responsible deluge. The changes to the review process will give networks and more people use internet-based the fact that refugees are still risking their lives.’ much greater appeal options to asylum seekers, but telephone services that do not require geographic Bowen said the government was already considering information to connect a call. The technology changes Behind the scenes laws to limit the refugees’ access to the courts. One place more stress on emergency services, which Secret US embassy cables have sharply criticised the option would be to eliminate the jurisdiction of the receive geographic information from fixed line calls handling of asylum seekers by former Prime Minister Federal Court, something which could be done with to 000, and businesses that send fixed calls to 13 Kevin Road and accused labour and the coalition of an act of parliament. numbers to the nearest shopfront. The regulator playing partisan politics with the issue. responsible for the numbering plan, the Australian More migration a must for ‘Big Australia’ Communications and Media Authority, is expected Backlog causing asylum seekers to take the According to the Department of Immigration, a to start consultations in November to avoid problems boats net migration intake of 180,000 a year is needed and amend the plan, The Age reported. Tom Allard, Indonesia correspondent for The Age to offset the impact of retiring baby boomers and writes from Jakarta that Australia’s promised keep Australia’s population at a consistent level, The Hello? resettlement of 500 refugees by the end of 2010, Financial Review reported. Lower immigration levels The Australian reported that telecommunication who are stuck in Indonesia, has fallen woefully short. would have a negative impact on the federal budget customer complaints increased by 130 per cent last Asylum seekers he has spoken to say the backlog and could reduce living standards and economic year. The Australian Communications and Media of applications is encouraging people to make the growth, the Department said. Authority is in the midst of an investigation into perilous journey by boat instead.

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Funeral costs have Libs baffled Chinese labor imports mining royalty increases – has been deferred until Stories in both The Age and The Herald Sun suggested The Australian reported that hundreds of Chinese 2011 as part of a wider federal-state agenda through senior Liberal party members were unable to decide contract workers will be brought to Queensland by the Council of Australian Governments. who should pay flight fees for relatives of victims of mining boss Clive Palmer, underlining Australia’s the Christmas Island tragedy. Shadow Immigration inability to provide enough skilled labour to exploit the Phased tax will help small operators minister Scott Morrison at first made the news by growing resources boom. Mr Palmer revealed that Authors of the Argus report hope a phased approach saying that the government should not pay for the up to 10 per cent of the construction workforce for to the minerals resource rent tax threshold will help funeral costs. Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey broke his planned $8 billion coal development in the Galilee to minimise the impact on taxpayers with smaller party ranks in his support of the government’s Basin of the central west would come from China. operations. Under the report’s recommendations, decision to pay for the flights, saying ‘no matter what This fly-in contingent would number up to 600, many companies earning less than $50 million will continue your skin colour or the nature of your faith, if your child of them engineers. to pay no tax. The $50 million threshold offset aims has died or a father has died, you want to be there for to reduce tax liabilities when annual profit is under the ceremony to say goodbye.’ Eventually, everybody States fight mine tax $50 million. Mining companies earning between $50 agreed that the government should pay. The 9 year- According to the Herald Sun, Julia Gillard’s ‘easy’ million and $100 million will gradually pay more tax on old boy at the centre of this ‘debate’ was sent back to election promise, the mining tax, is now a debacle profit between, rather than being subject to the full tax Christmas Island for a few days but is now living with pitting her against the states. The mining tax rate (22.5per cent) above $50 million. family in Sydney. Policy Transition Group, formed in July to consult with the mining industry on the controversial tax CPA supports mining tax design changes presented their keenly awaited report in The Policy Transition Group report into the design late December. The committee led by former BHP and implementation of the government’s proposed coalItIon doInGs chairman Don Argus and resources Minister Martin minerals resource tax has laid important groundwork Ferguson, agreed that all future royalties miners for an effective outcome, CPA Australia said in a Sudden head winds test Abbott. paid to the state should be credited back to them December 21 press release. ‘The PTG report is an Baillieu’s victory in Victoria is a fillip for the so called so they are not taxed twice – once by the Federal important step, addressing as it does, a number of small ‘l’ liberal wing of the Liberal party, writes The government and again by the individual states. But key issues that have proven so problematic since the Age Federal politics reporter John Gordon. The big the committee also argued that the mining tax should government proposed a resource tax reform earlier question for Mr Abbott is why his party’s federal vote not be a ‘mechanism’ allowing the states to jack up in 2010,’ said CPA Australia head of Business and has been going backwards in Victoria. To reverse ‘inefficient’ royalties. It urged the government to Investment Policy Paul Drum. ‘PTG’s comprehensive this trend the article contends, could require a very negotiate with the states to stop them from doing consultation and detailed report charts a clear course different style of Liberal leadership, one more policy so. Treasurer Wayne Swan said any issues with by which the government can navigate the issue.’ driven, more socially progressive, less conservative, the states would be worked through. ‘We can’t give more aligned with traditional liberal values espoused the green light to the states to increased royalty Flood stops mines by party founder . endlessly,’ he said. But the premiers of resource rich The Australian reported that the massive Queensland Western Australia and Queensland fiercely defended coal industry – the source of more than half the the right to raise royalties. world’s seaborne trade in the commodity – was at a standstill due to flooding that shut mines, rail lines and resources New Battle looming ports causing at least $2billion in lost production. Louise Dodson commented in the Financial Review Stay or go that while peace seems to have at least temporarily Structural unemployment The Australian reported that mining giants BG Group broken out between many of the miners and the Former ANZ chief economist and former president and Santos were examining 300 conditions placed Gillard government, after the Don Argus chaired of the Young Liberals, Saul Eslake, made a speech on them by the federal government to decide whether committee on the resources has recommended key at the forum at Parliament their $30b coal seam gas projects in Queensland will concessions to the industry, the real battle lies ahead. House in mid February about responsibly managing go ahead. The Minerals Council of Australia was pleased the commodity booms. The Financial Review covered committee accepted at least four of its proposed his contention that the government and opposition Precious water design features for the new minerals resource rent are too concerned about lowering unemployment. The Financial Times reported that The Minerals tax. But the battle has been delayed rather than In his opinion, the mining boom and 5 per cent Council of Australia has warned mining is being averted. The mining industry does not support all of unemployment meant creating jobs was no longer overlooked in the planning for water sharing, as the the committee’s recommendations. The government priority. ‘Rather, it is managing that resource boom National Water Initiative is focussed on rescuing has yet to accept its more generous approach. And without blowing it up in an inflationary surge in the the ailing Murray-Darling Basin. National Farmers the most contentious issue – the treatment of state Federation chief executive Ben Fargher said farmers made no apology for being centrally engaged in the debate because ‘water is our largest asset’. But the MCA said water should flow into industries that put it to the most profitable uses.

Miners revisit tax campaign Small miners are threatening to relaunch an advertising campaign over state royalties ahead of the release of a key report on the planned 30 per cent tax on iron ore and coal profits. Australian Mining and Exploration Company’s chief executive Simon Bennison said it would restart its campaign if there is no credit for future state royalties.

17 19 DECEMBER 2010 to 28 FEBRUARY 2011 way we have always done with each of the commodity Work expenses, in a way of the banking lobby is crucial to the success of cycles’ he said. ‘We have stuffed all of them up.’ Hundreds of thousands of current and former any attempts to automate mortgages because students will be able to claim tax deductions for their institutions need to agree on, and embed, uniform WA stands firm against mining royalty cap study expenses, after a landmark High Court ruling data standards to ensure system compatibility. The The Financial Review reported the resumption that threatens to put a multi-million-dollar hole in the state governments of New South Wales, Victoria of hostilities over Canberra’s proposed Minerals budget. Melbourne primary school teacher Simone and Queensland have all financially backed NECDL. Resource Rent Tax, with West Australian treasurer Anstis has been fighting the ATO through every legal Westpac Banking Corporation had previously led the Christian Porter saying that attempts to penalise jurisdiction for the past four years to claim costs for industry efforts to create a national utility service, states that lift mining royalties outside the tax would her university study as a deduction against her Youth however its participation faltered late last year after scuttle productivity-enhancing industry reforms. Mr Allowance payments. The 25-year-old will gain only a wave of management changes at the bank. NECDL Porter’s comments come as the federal government about $300 from her win in the High Court. But some seeks a chief information officer, ewkaustralia@ewki. begins the new year hoping to win the agreement of tax experts estimate the court’s decision could cost com. the states for its controversial tax. the government as much as $80m a year from current students alone, The Age reported. The rich on middle incomes Union leader scathes Rio Tinto The Australian reported that personal income tax Prominent union leader Paul Howes reopened a bitter Getting a grip reform, including lifting the tax-free threshold to feud with Rio Tinto, declaring a major push to increase The Age reported that in the next year the Tax Office $25,000, could have been implemented for as little union membership across the resources sector, The plans to send out 100,000 letters, at a rate of 270 as $500m a year, but the government was scared Australian reported. Howes, the national secretary of day, to small businesses whose cash takings it has that cutbacks to middle-class welfare and cutbacks the Australian Workers Union, delivered a blistering previously been unable to get a handle on. It published to the rich would cost too many votes. The Henry attack on the mining giant at the union’s national a list of benchmarks for 15 types of businesses that tax review costings reveal that the full package of conference at the Gold Coast. ‘I have got a message have until now largely escaped its crackdown on the personal tax reforms could have been adopted, even for Rio Tinto,’ he told delegates at the conference. cash economy, The Age reported. with the budget in deficit. Treasurer Wayne Swan has ‘You don’t own this government; you don’t own this defended his decision to reject the Henry tax review’s country anymore. Your workforce has the right to be A picture personal income-tax reforms, saying they would represented. You cannot hide behind the law.’ The CPA Australia Asia-Pacific Small-Business Survey have benefited the rich at the cost of those on middle 2010, which took in small businesses from Australia, incomes. Rants about rats Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia showed a Julia Gillard was quick to condemn senior union growing emphasis on accessing finance for the Crocodile fights crocodile Howes and AWU chairman Bill Ludwig after they purpose of business growth. CPA Australia CEO Alex According to the major papers, Australian film launched a vicious attack on Trade Minister Craig Malley said the survey delivered a critical snapshot legend Paul Hogan is preparing to sue the Federal Emerson, labelling him a dishonourable rat. Gillard of the regional economic performance. The survey government for millions of dollars over its failed 5 year also condemned the pair’s criticism of Rio-Tinto results support the view that the economy of this criminal investigation of his tax affairs. The Herald Sun published in The Australian the previous day, saying region proved more resilient in weathering the global quoted him referring to himself as ‘the Brad Pitt’ of that union leaders needed to be more respectful to economic downturn and is now well-placed to grasp the advertising world while defending his $80 million employees and moderate their language. any upswing, he said. See www.cpaaustralia.com.au/ claim against the government and claiming that it businesssurvey. wasn’t about the money so much as ‘investigating the investigators’. Despite dropping the charges, Electronic bound process Australian Crime Commission chief executive busIness, economy, The Financial Review reported signs of life emerged John Lawler believes that the broad ranging tax tax from a stalled plan to give millions of Australian investigation that Mr Hogan became embroiled in has mortgagees a national electronic conveyancing been a success, and that the intention was never to Definitely not a bank system to replace archaic, paper-bound processes. target high profile figures. The operation known as Debts owing to the Australian Taxation Office rose The renewed push has come in the form of the recently Project Wickenby, has so far raised almost $1 billion 21 per cent in the last financial year, the ATO has formed National e-Conveyancing Development in tax liabilities but has successfully collected only revealed, while indicating it would adopt a more Limited. The company has secured the support of $230 million, and at a cost of $430 million, according to the Financial Review. Mr Lawler, however, claims aggressive18 NOVEMBER approach to to clawing 15 DECEMBER back those funds 2010 as the Australian Bankers’ Association to thrash out data the economy improved, the Financial Review reported. standards and cut through red tape needed to create that the project has made Australia unattractive to standardised electronic processes. 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On the morning of the election, The Age had all as a leader of substance in the rural and regional late polls showing ted baillieu’s Coalition surging party. onward Christian soldiers into the lead in the final days of the campaign. Of The Age reported that veteran Liberal MP Ken interest also, were the changing approval ratings. More green detail Smith will become lower house speaker, with Premier John brumby dipped 7 per cent to 46 The worse than expected result for the Greens colleague Christine Fyffe as deputy speaker. per cent, while Baillieu rose three points to 48 will be taken by Baillieu as vindication for his Liberal bruce Atkinson will be president of the per cent. In the same paper tim Colebatch mid-campaign decision to preference the minor upper house. Of the 22 ministers, all but one wrote that the poll implies a two-party swing to party last in all seats, even if it meant a couple swore oaths on the Bible. Only Attorney-General the Coalition of about 6.5 per cent. Technically, of Labor members, namely bronwyn Pike and robert Clark made an affirmation. the Coalition required a uniform swing of 6.6 per richard Wynne, retained their inner-city seats cent to win, but swings are never uniform. The because of it. Meanwhile, a swag of new Liberal Watch CoAG Coalition received a swing of over 6 per cent and Party members claimed the heartland eastern After being sworn in as Premier, ted baillieu said took government, 45 seats to 43. On the same suburbs of Melbourne from Labor for the first time that he would pursue an approach of competitive day, the Herald Sun had Newspoll showing the since 1999. Paul Austin noted that something federalism, the Financial Review reported. Baillieu Coalition with 51.1 per cent of the two-party dramatic happened in the last days of the election was very critical of the Council of Australian preferred vote ahead of Labor with 48.9 per cent. campaign. Undecided voters, especially in the Governments agenda in recent years. He has It was the first time that the Coalition had been mortgage belts across Melbourne’s eastern and already flagged concerns with federal health ahead in the campaign. The Australian had the southern suburbs, decided they had had enough and water reforms and criticised some COAG Coalition ahead by 52 per cent to 48 per cent. of Labor and were prepared to give the Coalition agreements for producing a race to the average. another go, 11 years after they had evicted Jeff Baillieu flagged a determination to take on the other polls Kennett from the Premier’s office. powerful construction union stranglehold on Five days out from the election, the Herald Sun commercial scale residential construction. reported that a Galaxy Poll showed Premier John A long speech brumby would cling to power, but only with On election night, former Premier John brumby Packages tied up with string the help of Greens preferences. On a two-party was convinced that the election result would be a Two suspicious packages found in government preferred basis, Labor was ahead of the Coalition hung Parliament, and said in his non-concession buildings, hours before John brumby conceded 51-49 per cent, but the polling showed that up to speech that Labor had provided stable minority defeat, were more than a hoax, police said. 18 government seats were in play ahead of the government before, the Herald Sun reported. Detectives will investigate whether the packages election. History shows that they lost 13 of them. delivered to 1 Treasury Place, which houses the democratic deficit office of the Premier and the Exhibition Street Good summary The close election result showed both major offices of the Departments of Transport and Following the election, Shaun Carney wrote in parties were lacking in authority, had too Justice, had any political links, The Age reported. The Age that Labor’s support during this election many apparatchiks, and were suffering from a The Herald Sun reported that the packages were campaign followed a similar downward course ‘democratic deficit’, former Premier John Cain later declared safe. to the ALP governments in Western Australia in said. Cain, Labor Premier from 1982 to 1990, 2008 and South Australia in March this year. At said both major parties face similar issues but First brushes of new broom the beginning of the Victorian campaign, only the Labor Party needed to fix the problem to The Herald Sun reported that at least 160 staff a few short weeks before the election, Labor ensure policy and ideas are being generated by members, including public relations employees appeared to be ahead with a small margin of the broader parties as well as its MPs. Cain said and advisers left government offices in a matter comfort and Brumby looked in command, just as the policy vacuum is being filled by professional of days once the result was called. Any who have his interstate counterparts had. political advisers, the bureaucracy and interest spent a bare minimum of 12 months in government groups who back it with political donations. Cain will walk away with 12 weeks redundancy pay Gradually, the campaign turned sour for Labor praised the campaign of John brumby and said plus a three-week notification payment on top and Brumby, especially in the final week. It the major parties are no longer the crucible for was perhaps an example of the media clocked ideas and policies, The Age reported.

6 LETTER FROM CANBERRA supervisors. These people have owned, operated federal Families, Housing, Community Services and that employees and employers should not have to or worked in small business and have been able to Indigenous Affairs Department, suggests that the be equally represented on super fund boards. The directly help 90 per cent of callers and refer the rest current policy of exempting the family home, which announcement by Minister for Superannuation, Bill to a third party. The agents are trained to take a call allows many more retirees to claim the pension, could Shorten, puts flesh on the bones of a federal election and identify the best solution for the small businesses, distort and limit the choices Australians made with promise to allow super funds to offer a low cost, [email protected]. their wealth. no-frills product called ‘My Super’ from July 2013, which will eventually replace existing default funds. ACCC easy on exchange takeover ASIC in mind The Australian Competition and Consumer Frank Clarke and Graeme Dean wrote a piece Retailers draw online in the sand Commission said in The Australian that the proposed titled ‘ASIC is wounded – again. Time for a rethink’ Australia’s biggest retailers invested millions of deal by the Singapore Stock Exchange would for the Financial Review. They claimed that corporate dollars into an advertising campaign pressuring the not substantially lessen competition, given it did regulation has been shown once again to be more government to impose GST on all internet sales, not compete with the ASX for trading, clearing or than difficult. The successful appeal by James The Australian reported. The retailers warned that settlement services. Hardy directors against the decision in favour of thousands of jobs would be put at risk if the tax were ASIC, has served increase criticism of the regulator’s not implemented. Retailers urge action on offshore sales performance. Australian retail heavyweights have attacked the Retailers retreat after consumer backlash government’s enquiry into the retail industry as Paper agenda It was supposed to be the start of a recovery, but for further signs of inaction, saying GST and duty Leading company directors have called on big business Australia’s major retailers, an advertising campaign loopholes favouring offshore retailers are sheer to ramp up a public campaign in the New Year against calling to impose GST on online purchases seems to ‘lunacy’. Retail billionaires Solomon Lew and Gerry populist new laws that will necessarily increase the have gone horribly wrong, The Australian reported. Harvey revealed that they are speaking with sector regulatory burden on companies. Australian Institute The coalition of 21 retailers, including Myer, Harvey colleagues about mounting a campaign against the of Company Directors chief executive John Colvin Norman, David Jones and Just Jeans launched government over what they claim is an uneven playing said in The Australian that business no longer had a a massive advertising campaign pushing for the field. Christmas reading about how to buy online has choice but to speak out. In the wake of Greens leader government to charge GST and import duty from on no doubt encouraged many people to try it. Bob Brown’s push to toughen the government’s sales from foreign websites, which are currently tax- proposed mining tax legislation and moves to give free for purchases under $1000. Australian house price inflation leads world shareholders new powers to challenge executive pay However, the reaction has been far from positive, A survey covering selected advanced economies and claw back bonuses, big business fears that worse with Christopher Zinn, campaign director for ranked Australia as the clear frontrunner for rising is to come. consumer advocate Choice, pointing out that ‘the house prices, with a gain of 9.4 per cent in the big chains should recognise that it’s their high year to the end of September, adjusted for inflation. Newcrest departure prices, limited range and poor customer service that Australia’s increase represented a slowdown from Newcrest Mining’s CEO Ian Smith has stepped down increasingly encourage people to use the internet.’ the 15.9 per cent recorded in the year to March 31, from his position saying that ‘the worst thing a CEO Online comments to The Australian reflected these with successive interest rate rises and the expiry of could do was stay too long.’ During his tenure, the sentiments, with the vast majority of readers the enhanced first home owners grant starting to bite. company’s value rose dramatically from $US4.5 bn condemning the retailers’ campaign. to $US29 bn, reflecting the markets rating of Smith. More bloody paperwork Smith is to be replaced by chief finance officer Greg Union chief undermines retailers’ campaign From January 1, the government will pay eligible Robinson. The head of the retail sector union has criticised parents $570 a week for 18 weeks while at home members of his own industry by dismissing claims with their newborns. The government will make the Hotels change association that online retailing poses a threat to Australian jobs, payments directly to parents for the first six months Major hotel groups are defecting from the Australian and describing a recent campaign by some of the but will then pass the responsibility on to employers. Hotels Association in what the Financial Review has country’s largest retailers as a crude attempt to force But Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry called one of the biggest shake-ups in the sector in the government’s hand on tax policy. The Australian chief executive Peter Anderson said yesterday the two decades. Accor, Mantra, Toga Hospitality, Mirvac reported that Joe de Bruyn, national secretary of the administration of the scheme should stay with the and InterContinental have shifted membership to, Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, government. ‘Small and medium businesses already or increased their backing of the Accommodation said the campaign by 21 top retailers exaggerated the have to do101 things, and here is another thing they Association of Australia, claiming the AHA is too threat that online shopping posed to their businesses. have to do for the government,’ he said. focused on pub owners and poker machine operators. Aiming for perfection Hikes to hurt households ATO pays interest! Businesses might need to protect their names before Jessica Wright of The Sunday Age, writes that new The Australian Tax Office pays interest on refunds the federal government’s proposed national business data shows Australians are being hit with record that take more than 30 days to process. It aims names register is introduced, The Financial Review expenses for basic services while the floods that have to complete 94 per cent of refunds within 14 days. reported. The government is spending $125 million wiped out crops in Queensland and New South Wales After that period, the interest rate on payouts is 4.16 over four years to nationalise the existing state-based are predicted to raise fruit and vegetables prices up to per cent, as of June 30 last year. In 2009, the ATO registers of business names as part of a bid to cut 50 per cent. Any hope that the strong paid out $32.5 million for delayed refunds. The Age red tape and commercial costs. These changes are would shield motorists from increases in fuel prices reported that last year the payments rose to a record part of the Council of Australian Governments’ (COAG) have been dashed – global oil prices are tipped to hit $42 million. Apparently, tax experts blame the spike plan to make doing business easier, a move which is record highs this year. in interest payments on the January 2010 introduction estimated to reduce costs by $1.5 billion over eight of the new $879 million computer system designed to years for businesses, governments and consumers. Pension asset test hits home weed out fraudulent returns. The Australian Business Licence Information A government working paper has canvassed the Service, which rationalises state licences required option of including the family home in the age pension No-frills super by business, and the Australian Business Account, means test, after finding Australian retirees were The Government’s response to the Cooper Review an online account for managing ongoing business asset rich, but income poor, compared with those of industry accepts, in detail or in principle, 139 of interactions with all levels of government, are due overseas. The paper, published in December by the its 172 recommendations – but rejects its proposal to finalise their plans within the next six months.

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However, there is a risk that some businesses will which is intended to relieve population pressure on lose their trading names if not adequately prepared Infrastructure Perth, has received a lukewarm response from urban for the changes. Lawyer Alexia Marinos said; ‘we developers. would encourage businesses to register trademarks It’s past the post with their business names in preparation for a national On February 22, Infrastructure Minister Anthony TNT depot register.’ Albanese released a draft national freight strategy TNT has opened its flagship Australian Depot in that would include dedicated roads and rail lines Welshpool, Western Australia. The $40m facility Wait and see exclusively for cargo. According to The Australian, the is part of the company’s $100m infrastructure The Australian reported that the tax summit due to government released the draft strategy because the investment campaign that has been under way be held in June remains under a cloud, as insiders levels of cargo being moved are expected to double around the country for the past 24 months. question why no details have yet been forthcoming, between 2007 an 2030 and bottlenecks on the ports, even though four months have passed since the roads and rail lines cost the country tens of billions of Developers to face tougher restrictions on federal government committed to it. The Tax Institute dollars in export earnings during the last export boom. waterfront properties of Australia, the Business Council of Australia and the Australian Railway Association chief executive Bryan In an exclusive, The Australian reported that property association of small miners, AMEC, have all raised Nye said the states need to overhaul road prices to developers will face new restrictions on projects concerns about the lack of information on the summit unlock funds for dedicated freight routes. Nye said near the waterfront, and port operators will be and concern that, even if it does go ahead, it won’t be in The Australian, bigger trucks such as B-doubles ordered to develop 30-year business plans under far-reaching enough. and B-triples – which the strategy encourages – a federal government plan to cope with a tripling of were not required to pay for the extra damage they trade through the nation’s ports. Julia Gillard and ASX cracks down on executive shares did to roads. But the Australian Truckers Association Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese defended The Australian Securities Exchange warned that chairman David Simon said the bigger trucks were the plan, arguing that a national approach is crucial to it will take a hard line against more than 300 listed more efficient and safer as fewer trucks were needed. lifting Australia’s economic performance. companies that have failed to comply with a new listing rule requiring them to implement share-trading It’s past the post Don’t wrap waterfront in red tape, policies for their directors and senior executives, The Australia Post has begun closing post offices as developers say Financial Review reported. the 200-year-old service grapples with the threat Property developers have criticised the federal of e-mail, Facebook and other online forms of government’s planned restrictions on waterfront Premiers not convinced on economic communication. Last financial year, the organization, development, saying that any regulatory changes reforms which boasts 4,400 outlets – the largest retail would lead to unnecessary red tape and would cause The Financial review reported that state premiers network in the country – lost money on letters for delays in the decision making process, Siobahn Ryan were not entirely convinced by Julia Gillard’s plan to the first time, as e-mail and social networks asserted wrote in The Australian. Master Builders Association develop another wave of regulatory and competition their dominance over written communication. The chief Wilhelm Harnisch said his industry was ‘very reforms for business. The premiers were asked to sign Sunday Herald Sun has been given a list of 27 post keen to ensure this doesn’t become another layer up to economic reforms that could cut business costs offices nationally facing closure from December 31. of bureaucratic delays and complexity in getting and increase economic output in an attempt to deliver The organization, with 34,000 employees, posted approvals.’ results, despite criticism of previous failures of similar $500 million in profits only a few years ago, but plans. The communiqué released by the Council of experienced a drop to $100 million last year. And the New road development plan: better freight Australian Governments said, in February, that COAG letter volume fell by 5.5 per cent, though 100,000 new than never would consider the options for further reforms later in delivery addresses were added. The Australian reported that Infrastructure and 2011, after more background work by officials. Transport Minister Anthony Albanese released a draft Road damage national freight strategy aimed at avoiding capacity Government’s response on super a step to Extensive damage from the Queensland floods is constraints on road and rail lines in the hope of lifting greater retirement savings expected according to the Financial Review to trigger export earnings. Under the proposal, triple-trailer CPA Australia believes the Federal government’s the introduction of load limits for the trucking industry. trucks will be allowed on more roads, dedicated freight response to the recommendations of the Cooper Such a move would push up the cost of moving goods routes will be created and cargo and passenger train review into Australia’s superannuation system around the state and would be seen by consumers lines will be separated. promises greater efficiency of retirement savings around the country in the form of higher prices on in certain areas but unnecessary regulation of the products such as bananas. growing area of self managed super funds (SMSF). Sydney airport traffic defence CPA Australian head of business and investment policy The Financial Review revealed that passenger traffic Paul Drum said the response addressed a number of through Sydney airport rose 4.7 per cent in November, Combat vehicles glitch important issues but also contains some proposals according to Map Airports. China was the biggest New fighting vehicles for Australia’s elite soldiers have which cause concern. ‘The proposed regulation of source of international traffic, with a 32 per cent rise been described as white elephants that are plagued SMSF auditors smacks of regulation for its own sake. in passenger growth, while Korea was up 26 per cent by dodgy electronics, are too heavy to be loaded onto Of SMSF auditors 95 per cent are members of one and India 15 per cent. Visitors from the US dropped army cargo helicopters, and are still not in Afghanistan of the three professional accounting bodies and as 11 per cent while passengers from the UK went down – despite being bought more than two years ago for such are already subject to a rigorous process of five per cent. nearly $50 million. The 31 Nary patrol vehicles were professional, ethical and auditing standards.’ bought in August 2008. Named after SAS warrant Bush focus Officer David Nary, the Next Generation vehicle was Budget scrutiny needed Western Australia’s mid year budget showed that bought for soldiers in the special operations task The Business Council of Australia called for the surging mining royalties would push the National’s group in Afghanistan, as replacements for their ageing establishment of an independent commission to check Royalties for Regions program fund above $1 bn modified Land Rovers. In November 2007 British the budget and scrutinise spending initiatives to help next financial year. National’s leader Brendon Grylls Ministry of Defence bought the same vehicles from safeguard the long-term health of Commonwealth has proposed spending the money by turning small manufacturer Supacat and had them in Afghanistan finances, The Financial Review reported. towns into mini metropolises of 20,000, with city- within months. It now has hundreds of operational standard services. Financial Review said the plan, vehicles. Australia’s defence Department told The Age

20 LETTER FROM CANBERRA the deployment of the first batch of Narys is ‘on track’ E-health the argument in favour of uranium sales to India are and that some will be operating in the second half of The Australian reported that Defence has awarded a demonstrably spurious. 2011 – three years after they were delivered. $ 6.1 million, three-year e-health project management contract to consultant and IT services provider Oakton. Australian soldiers bitter brew The move is aimed to jump-start the departments The Herald Sun claimed Australian soldiers serving over due electronic health record system for defence educatIon in Afghanistan were to be forced to pay $5 a can if personnel. Later, in a related story, the Financial they wanted to have a beer on Christmas Day. One Review reported that international outsourcing firm National curriculum soldier calculated defence is making a killing. ‘That Computer Sciences Corporation had bagged the $50 A report titled The National Curriculum, A Critique by works out to be $120 a carton of beer,’ the soldier million contract to develop the service, now know Chris Berg was published by the Institute of Public said. The Defence Department pointed out it provided as the Defence Joint e-health Data and Information Affairs and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation. accommodation, food and welfare services to its System. In it he poses the question: Why are the basics deployed troops ‘at no cost’. Defence spokesman of Western Civilisation absent from the national Alex Carter said on the ‘very limited and approved curriculum? occasions’ when personnel could drink alcohol— which was usually the equivalent of two cans of beer foreIGn affaIrs Simple mathematics only average – payment was required. After the article(s) were run, The academic integrity and international the decision was reversed and beer provided free of Rudd Defends Assanges’ rights competitiveness of Australia’s universities will be charge! Tales of bureaucracy! The Australian ran a story that Foreign Minister Kevin seriously compromised if the Gillard government goes Rudd gave a strong defence of Julian Assanges’ ahead with plans to approve thousands of additional Military called in for flood relief legal rights as the Wikileaks founder prepared to student places without a corresponding boost to the The military was involved in a massive logistical face court in London. Also, The Herald Sun reported sector’s funding. According to the coalition of the operation that took place across Queensland to that Kevin Rudd’s wife, Therese Rein, was one of country’s eight elite universities, known as the Group evacuate thousands of people and deliver emergency the thousands of commuters stranded by the icy of Eight, the Government’s proposal to provide an supplies to communities and properties isolated conditions in London over the Christmas holiday. additional 110,000 undergraduate student places during the worst floods in the State recorded history. by 2020, and 235,000 by 2030, is putting quantity Rudd call for inspections of Israel’s nuclear over quality and will result in much higher fees and/or Smith attacks Defence facility greatly diminished academic standards. Defence Minister Stephen Smith scolded his own During Kevin Rudd’s visit to Israel, The Australian department over its failure to keep is crucial landing reported that the foreign minister communicated a Top in town ships seaworthy, describing the attitude of the navy clear message calling for international inspectors to The Australian reported that the appointments as a ‘can-do and make-do culture.’ be allowed into their nuclear facility. of Ziggy Switkowski and Peter Shergold as chancellors of RMIT and the University of Western Navy engineers in short supply Look back to the future Sydney respectively, point to a healthy self-interest on A drastic lack of engineers is raising grave concerns The US and its allies should have learned from the the part of universities eager to improve ties with the over the navy’s ability to maintain and run its fleet, Soviet experience in Afghanistan and realised long top end of town. which is due to receive upwards of $50 billion worth ago that the war is un-winnable, says former Prime of new ships over the next 10 years, according to a Minister . Fraser, as revealed in 1980 Youth Allowance report in The Australian. An internal review suggests Cabinet documents released at the end of 2010, The Australian reported that National Senator Fiona that poor morale and a broken management system was seen as historically a Cold War warrior back in Nash will push for a broad ranging enquiry into youth within the engineering unit is to blame for the shortfall the US, given his statements against the Soviet push allowance payments for university students when in numbers. into Afghanistan. In The Australian, he claims that the parliament resumes. The coalition spokeswoman for American and Australian governments are pretending regional education yesterday said a comprehensive Defending Customs they can win the war but they cannot. enquiry was needed to explore how youth allowance The Department of Defence, Australian Customs and payments were too often seen as welfare rather Border Protection Services signed a memorandum UK visa changes than to address inequalities in the regional students of understanding that establishes a formal working The Financial Review reported that the UK will abolish experienced in getting access to a university relationship. At an official ceremony in Canberra, five its skilled visa program from April 6, 2011, which education. documents were signed, including the MoU and four spells bad news for the many Australians who would annexes canvassing the reporting of the import and otherwise use such visas for employment or working Plan to liberate schools export of defence cargo and the clearance of defence holidays in Britain. 1,500 employer-sponsored visas According to The Australian, schools will become self- air crew and passengers in and out of Australia. will still be available every month, and jobs with a governing under a Labor plan to hand responsibility for salary of over $AU240,000 would be exempt from the budgets and hiring teachers to principals and school Ex-Digger dodges death penalty limit. councils, while holding them accountable for student Court documents obtained by The Australian revealed performance. In a move that would comprehensively that a former Australian soldier has avoided the death Moving on reshape the nation’s education system, the federal penalty for murder in Afghanistan, and has instead Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has government is proposing a model of school been given 20 years in jail. Robert William Langdon, declared that the Labor Party needs to modernise governance based on the way independent schools who worked for a US private security company, was its views and start selling uranium to India. The operate, turning government and catholic schools into convicted of murdering an Afghan colleague during a Age quoted Ferguson as saying that the uranium ‘autonomous’ institutions. violent dispute in 2009. policy needed to allow ‘flexibility and discretion,’ and described India as a country with a ‘very, very In a briefing paper submitted to a meeting of state No closure for War Memorial good history of nuclear non-proliferation.’ Also in education ministers at the beginning of the December, The federal government dismissed concerns that the The Age, Richard Broinowski, an adjunct professor and the federal government outlined the plan for Australian War Memorial might have to close one day at the University of Sydney and former Australian autonomous schools to become the standard by 2018 a week because of budget problems. ambassador to Vietnam, Republic of Korea, Mexico, in the government and non-government sectors. the Central American Republics and Cuba, wrote that

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My School boss rakes in the big bucks plan, saying while further consultation is critical, a proposed that funds would be better spent on helping The Australian reported that Peter Hill, the chief degree of certainty about their future livelihood is also communities prepare for and live with floods. He executive overseeing the My School website, is one paramount. wrote that ‘placing one’s faith in dams smacks of the of Australia’s highest paid public servants, earning as old Australian approach to floods, which is that they much as a High Court judge, and more than the Prime Water Down the Drain must be fought, ‘controlled,’ beaten into submission.’ Minister. The figures, published in the Australian The Australian reports that Canberra is to offer close to Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority’s $6 billion for Murray Darling water efficiency projects, annual report, showed that Hill earns over $433,000 a but some economists are questioning their worth. year. Other big earners included Lisa Paul, head of the According to a report by the Victorian auditor general JustIce Department of Education, Employment and Workplace this year, ‘the decision to commit $1 billion was based Relations, whose total annual remuneration package on the advice of water savings and cost assumptions Speed gives ASIC some Hardie words is valued at over $470,000. that had not been verified, technology that had not Sydney lawyer Robin Speed wrote a letter to The yet proven itself and the feasibility of the project, Financial Review heavily criticising the Australian My school = my profits which was unknown. As a consequence, assumed Securities and Investments Commission over their Companies that sell school league tables based on water losses have been significantly revised down, lack of action against the non-executive directors of information on the My School website could be sued making the achievement of intended water saving James Hardie. Speed accuses ASIC of making an under the changes to the sight to be announced by less certain.’ The Productivity Commission argued ineffective effort to take down the directors, and of School Education Minister Peter Garrett, The Age in its report last year that farmers often overestimate not learning from its mistakes. reported. the environmental gains from irrigation projects. The Commission also questions whether ultrasonic flow Threat of de-Forrest-ation metres and sluice gates (gates used to control water Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, the high-profile head of levels) being installed at places such as Coleambally Fortescue Metals Group, might be forced to resign aGrIculture. water do save water. after the Federal Court ruled that he had breached the Corporations Law by misleading investors. The Push ahead with basin plan Water expert basin proposal decision was praised by legal experts, who say that it The Age reported that calls for the Murray Darling Basin Mike Young, a member of the Wentworth Group of provides much-needed clarity about listed companies’ Plan to be postponed have been rejected by the man Concerned Scientists, said in The Australian that his continuous disclosure obligations. Professor Ian left to run the controversial process. Its chief executive ideal plan could see the objectives of the Murray Ramsay from the University of Melbourne’s Corporate Robert Freeman expressed disappointment at his Darling basin authority altered using the feedback Law department told The Australian ‘this is the first chairman Mike Taylor’s departure and declared his it has received. ‘I would ask the new chair of the time we’ve had the Full Bench of the Federal Court intention to see the process through. Taylor quit the authority to run a dual process: one to prepare a handing down a ruling on continuous disclosure and post after the Government rejected his authority’s green and then a white paper, which is a whole-of- the three judges are unanimous.’ Forrest has vowed advice that it was necessary to prioritise the government approach and almost sees the draft to appeal the courts decision. environment over social and economic needs when basin plan as an appendix to that. It might include allocating water volumes. re-examination of objectives and what we’re really on Double jeopardy about.’ The Australian heralded the death of the legal tradition He has now been replaced by former New South Wales of double jeopardy in Britain after a man cleared of a Labor MP Craig Knowles. Victorian water minister What’s that in your glass? murder in 1995 was found guilty of the same offence Peter Walsh said that he looked forward to working The nation’s water quality watchdog has dropped in a second trial based on new evidence. Suspects in with him. The Australian Conservation Foundation a new zero tolerance plan to prevent faecal Australia can still not be tried a second time if they said in The Age that Knowles had previously shown contamination of the nation’s drinking supplies, have been acquitted of a serious offence, but Britain he could rise above partisan politics. Knowles rejected after utilities complained that 100 per cent purity dropped the double jeopardy protection 5 years ago. his predecessor’s views and believes the authority’s would be unrealistic. The National Health and role is to balance social, economic and environmental Medical Research Council’s water quality advisory factors equally. committee has softened its plan to deem the quality of drinking supplies as satisfactory only if all samples medIa Ken’s Tasmanian water are free of E. coli bacteria. The committee has opted The Age senior columnist Kenneth Davidson writes: to stick with the existing target of 98 per cent, after PM talk has a familiar ring ‘The Murray Darling plan cannot work, so it’s time to strong lobbying from the industry, The Australian Prime minister Julia Gillard prompted false look at alternatives’. Mr. Davidson claims that recent reported. speculation that she was engaged to partner Tim developments in technology now mean it is more Mathieson after she appeared at a press conference expensive to operate the desalination plant than pipe Food flood wearing a large, sparkling green on the ring finger of twice the guaranteed volume of water from Tasmania. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and her left hand. When asked to explain that she replied: He also suggests that the new piping technology can Resource Economics and Sciences estimates that, ‘I have had that ring for a long period of time and wear be fully financed by private investment, can generate despite the weather disasters that have befallen the it on my left hand or my right hand, depending on additional income for Tasmania by selling water that country, the national winter harvest will reach 42.1 how much hand writing doing. If it will make you feel now runs into Bass Strait, and save the Murray Darling million tonnes. Such a result would be the largest haul better, I’ll slip it back on the right hand.’ This story was basin at the same time. in seven years, and be roughly 20 per cent higher than reported in The Age and the Financial Review. the 2009-10 crop. A rainfall tax Mark media critic The Australian reported that the forestry industry is Quick-fix solutions are a dam waste of time The Financial Review published a piece by Mark joining the rural discontent over the Murray Darling In an opinion article published in The Financial Latham in which he describes self-indulgence and Basin Authority’s water reform proposals. The Review, flood management consultant Chas Keys self-justification as hallmarks of The Australian industry warned that charging plantations for the was heavily critical of Tony Abbott’s simplistic flood- Newspaper, which he says is spearheading the decline water use of trees was a rainfall tax that could lead prevention strategy of building more dams. Keys of political journalism. ‘No doubt, The Australian to deforestation. Meanwhile, farmers have lashed argued that trying to stop water-flow with man-made considers itself one of the most important institutions out at potential delays to the Murray Darling rescue constructions was a waste of time and money, and in Parliament house.’ ‘The real garbage was on the

22 LETTER FROM CANBERRA reporter’s head – an absurd session with the ‘got-you’ because their living costs have been rising faster Parkinson’s Australia is seeking a Canberra based reporting that has sullied her profession,’ he said. than the dole. Despite a political focus on working chief executive. 1800 241 243, cv@dakinmayers. families, cost of living pressures have been pushing com.au Mick media critic the unemployed into poverty at an alarming rate, with The Australian reported that Major General Mick Australia now facing international pressure to increase The Australian Government Sugar Research and Slater, the man in charge of leading the Queensland the Newstart allowance. An analysis of Bureau of Development Corporation is seeking to appoint five to government’s flood recovery taskforce, has warned Statistics figures by Canberra-based think tank The seven non-executive members to its board from May 1. the media not to hamper his efforts by dividing the Australia Institute shows living costs of people on community. He said his priority was to tour affected government benefits rose by 12.8 per cent between The Australian government is setting up the Australian areas and listen to those who have suffered the most. June 2007 and September 2010, The Age reported. National Preventative Health Agency and is searching for expressions of interest for the position of Advisory Cable AFL 30 years on Council member. Pay television will be able to bid directly for the On the last day of 2010 the 30 year rule allowed lots exclusive rights to four weekly AFL matches of government documents to become available. Many Tenders under a federal Government move to ease interesting articles, particularly in The Australian which The office of the Inspector-General of Taxation, Ali the rules for pay television to bid directly for filled in some interesting details and added some Norooz, is calling for submissions from tax payers TV rights. According to the Financial Review, unknown history onto the public record. Nothing earth- and tax professionals who have tax administration Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is shaking this year. Some good character deepening experience, to contribute their concerns and close to finalizing a deal with the AFL which will details of prime minister Malcolm Fraser. suggestions for a report on his work program for ensure that Friday and Saturday night games 2011 and beyond. Submissions by 28 February, can still be purchased by free-to-air television Still bad [email protected] networks and include the best two games of United States – despite a flurry of publicity and public each round. Such a deal could inject billions into agonising, nineteenth century outlaw Billy the Kid Intelligence review the AFL and NRL as the rights to more quality won’t be pardoned, outgoing New Mexico governor The Australian Government is performing an games are made available for pay-TV to buy. Bill Richardson has announced. The Democratic independent review of the six organizations under the governor said: ‘the romanticism appealed to me, to umbrella of the intelligence community. According to Meandering issue a pardon, but the facts and the evidence do not the notification published in the Financial Review, there The future of Meanjin, Australia’s second oldest support it, and I’ve got to be responsible, especially are six key issues to be addressed and the process literary magazine, is again in the news with the when a governor is issuing a pardon.’ will be lead by Robert Cornall AO and Associate departure of editor Sophie Cunningham and the Professor Rufus Black. This review is taking place threat of an exclusively online existence. A statement on the recommendation of the 2004 review, which by Melbourne University Publishing, which publishes recommended another occur within 5 to 7 years. Meanjin, said Cunningham was not renewing her appoIntments, Jobs, Submissions until March 18, www.dpmc.gov.au/ contract in order to return to full-time writing. However, publications/iric/index/cfm a source close to the magazine said Cunningham had tenders, notIfIcatIons been told earlier in the year by MUP chairman Alan School funding review Kohler that the future of the magazine lay online, a Appointments The Australian Government has appointed a panel view she did not agree with, The Age reported. MUP Professor Ian Young has been appointed next vice- to conduct a Review of Funding for Schooling. The have since confirmed that the magazine will continue chancellor at the Australian National University. He panel is seeking submissions form individuals and to be printed. is currently vice-chancellor of Swinburne University. organisations in response to its Emerging issues He is a civil and oceanographic engineer, having paper, available at www.deewr.gov.au/fundingreview Nice one graduated from James Cook University. Submissions by March 31. Coles supermarkets ‘under $10 meal’ promotions Victoria’s top librarian, Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, has have been awarded a national prize as the biggest been appointed director-general of the National Library Retail industry inquiry ‘dud’ offer by consumer advocate group Choice, The of Australia. She has been CEO and state librarian at The Australian Government has asked the Productivity Age reported. the State Library of Victoria since 2003, and will begin Commission to undertake a public inquiry into the her new roll on March 11. Economic Structure and Performance of the Australian Keep reading CropLife Australia is the peak industry Association Retail Industry. The notification in The Age states that Statistics published in The Australian show that its representing the Australian plant science industry. the commission invites public participation. www. weekend paper’s Saturday circulation has increased Mathew Cossey, previously ACT director of the pc.gov.au (under ‘projects’) from 853,000 in 2009 to 887,000 in 2010, compared and then public affairs director to The Financial Review’s, which had fallen 11per cent at Raytheon, will commence in the roll of CEO at the Multiculturalism inquiry from 172,000 to 153,000. end of January 2011. Multiculturalism in Australia will be the focus of a new The Liberal Party of Australia has appointed Phillip inquiry by federal parliaments Migration Committee. Higginson, managing director of search firm ProNED, www.aph.gov.au/mig socIety to the role of federal treasurer. Forestry industry inquiry Homeless study Jobs The House of Representatives Agriculture Committee The government announce that a $5 million dollar The Office of the has been seeking has commenced and inquiry into the Australian study is to be Australia’s most comprehensive into suitably qualified and experienced applicants for forestry industry. The committee will explore, among the causes of homelessness. The Gillard government the roles of ministerial adviser, senior ministerial other things, current and future prospects of the study aims to better target the $5 billion dollars that is adviser, and administration support. Applications industry, particularly with regards to opportunities for spent on the homeless annually. closed January 10, but do not let this slow down your and constraints upon production; opportunities for application. diversification, value adding and product innovation; Doleful pace environmental impacts of forestry and creating a Unemployed people are $342 worse off year on better business environment. average than they were when Labor came to power

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