Are the foxes in charge of the henhouse?MomentsForZen/flickr, CC BY-NCConfounding the familiar government narrative of reckless spending binges by Labor, the Coalition actually has the record of greater profligacy when it comes to showering billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on external consultants.
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In the second in my series on the crisis besetting the National Electricity Market (NEM) in eastern Australia, I look at the tightening balance of supply and demand.
Australia’s NEM is witnessing an unprecedented rise in spot, or wholesale, prices as market conditions tighten in response to a range of factors.
Volume weighted NEM spot...
In trickle-down economics , accommodating for big business creates flow on effects for other smaller parts of the economy.www.shutterstock.comTo anyone who lived through the years of Ronald Reagan’s US presidency, the term “trickle-down economics” should already be familiar. While Reagan wasn’t the first politician to say...
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