It is one thing to suspect, or even know, someone is a branch stacker. The type of evidence obtained covertly in the Somyurek case, which demonstrated an intention to stack, as well as the fact of payment of other’s membership fees, is rare as hen’s teeth. The ALP Victorian Branch rules against branch stacking look […]

A lot of my friends have posted in favour of the demonstrations held across Australia yesterday on the issue of aboriginal deaths in custody. But I think the demonstrations were irresponsible. Hopefully, we are not “in the middle of a pandemic” as some commentators have stated. With no new cases over the last few days, […]

The public debt of a government that can issue its own currency is the amount the government has spent into the economy which has not yet been taxed back. If you were the government of the only village in the world, and you had the only money printing machine in the village, why would you […]

Labor’s current national platform provides: “Labor will deliver sound public finances by adhering to a fiscal strategy that achieves a balanced budget on average over the economic cycle… Achieving a balanced budget is not an end in itself, but it is an appropriate medium-term objective, as part of sound fiscal policy and economic management which […]

In 2013 French economist Thomas Piketty’s book ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ was released and became a best seller. On May 18, 2014, the English edition reached number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for best selling hardcover nonfiction and became the greatest sales success ever of academic publisher Harvard University Press. As of […]