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The difference is that these companies are generally pretty profitable - car manufacturers, especially in terms of the cars they make in Australia, are not. There would need to be an initial investment made but it would be nowhere near the ongoing long-term handouts that have been given to Ford...

I am a bit disappointed by Nick Xenophon's commitment to propping up the car industry in SA. I get that it's a big employer for them but what about retraining those workers to make something else - like say. trains or trams instead? That would be a massive boost to our economy and could further...

I didn't write the article but I would take the system of government in most European countries over that of Australia without hesitation. Reasons being: 1) Diversity of viewpoints - not just "the lesser of two evils" system that exists in Australia (and similar countries like the US). 2)...

A great article on Crikey today... Part one -- busting myths about the election result 1. "Labor’s lowest primary vote for a century!" Well, yes, but no. The point is that every Labor primary vote is going to be low from now on. The knowledge/culture/policy producer class has broken away...

Nick Xenophon is not right leaning - he seems more centrist to me. That guy from the Sports Party seems a bit ambiguous as well. There's also a chance (albeit small) of Greens getting an 11th seat in Canberra.

I think it's hilarious that the carbox tax is viewed as some "loony leftie" idea when Milton Friedman was one of this first people to propose it. He is so far right economically as to almost fall off the charts :p

I'm not sure if the current tally on the ABC website is accurate? It's showing 25 for Labor plus 10 for Greens meaning they need one more to get over the line?

10 Senate seats for the Greens atm :)

Most film industries around the world get some level of government subsidy. As do lots of other industries like banking, car manufacturing and others. It's not the subsidy itself that matters (or should matter) but what the return is on that investment. Successful films often make tens or...

I used California as an example because it's the type of diversified economy we should be trying to emulate - we can't be another India or China. You can even compare individual cities instead of the state and the result is the same. I didn't realise unskilled illegal immigrants were taking all...

You do know that about 40 per cent of Australian adults overall are officially not in the labour force?

We are putting money into the wrong sectors. Pumping billions of dollars into the car industry, for example, to make cars nobody wants to buy because we equate this with some weird form of "national pride". When third world countries like India are producing cars at a bigger scale, we need to...

While we're discussing what Australian can and can't afford in the area of maternity leave, I would like to draw your attention to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave Specifically, the heading "Variation in international law" :)