Talk to Australasian Treasury Officers’ Conference, Hobart
November 3, 2006
I’m pleased to be here to talk to you and offer an outsider’s view of the performance of Treasuries - when I say Treasury, please take that to include finance departments where they’re separate from treasury and to refer to the ‘purse-string departments’ at both federal and state level. It’s not my practice in speaking to any group to tell them how wonderful...
Friday, November 3, 2006
Saturday, September 23, 2006
FUNDING SCHOOL EDUCATION
Talk to Cornerstones Conference, Sydney
September 23, 2006
By rights, what I should be giving you now is a learned and crystal clear exposition of federal-state funding of school education, about how crazy, unfair and irrational the Howard Government’s formula for funding non-government schools is and about how, when you look at it properly, what Howard and his cronies claim to be economic rationalism is actually quite irrational,...
Thursday, August 24, 2006
CHRISTIANS IN A CONSUMER CULTURE
Talk to Baptists Today conference at Collaroy
August 24, 2006
In his book In Praise of Slowness, the journalist Carl Honore says that all the world’s a store and all the men and women merely shoppers. Sometimes it feels like that. I think we all know what consumerism is, but let’s look at it anyway. Consumerism is the belief that personal happiness lies in the purchasing of material goods. Sometimes that idea motivates our behaviour...
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
THE MEANING OF BUSINESS LIFE
Australian Institute of Management breakfast briefing
June 6, 2006
When I was asked to talk to you today I spent some time thinking of what I could talk about. I could preach a sermon on the need for more micro-economic reform, or I could urge you all to be more competitive, or argue passionately that the Government should slash the rate of tax we high income-earners pay so as to encourage us to work much harder. Well, you may...
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
AUSTRALIA’S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2006
Talk to Australian Business Economists Annual Forecasting Conference, Sydney, December 13, 2005
At last, at last, economists are getting what they’ve longed for: the return of micro
reform. With the Howard Government’s acquisition of a majority in the Senate, the
good times are back. We’ve had completion of the privatisation of Telstra and now
the Holy Grail of economic rationalism, reform of the labour market. What’s more,
and...
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