Miscellaneous

By Leith van Onselen A reader has just sent me a link to the Coalition’s policies and discussions page, which contains 48 discussion papers outlining the Coalition’s policies on just about everything.

Cross-posted from Mark the Ballot. There have been three national polls in the past two days: A Morgan poll at 47.5-52.5 in the Coalition’s favour (on the basis of 2010 preference flows) – a 1.5 percentage point movement to Labor on Morgan’s mid-week poll, but unchanged on last weekend’s poll.

By Leith van Onselen If I remember one thing from this election campaign, which let’s face it hasn’t been particularly interesting, it will be the biased coverage from the Murdoch tabloids.

Cross-posted from The Conversation Over at the 2013 election media panel Brian McNair asks a good question.

From Rob Burgess of BS today: As Senate numbers tighten, it is becoming clearer that Abbott’s plan to repeal the ‘carbon tax’ faces an unmovable roadblock.

The election has now descended fully into a fiscal fog.

I think we’d all agree that entrepreneurialism is good for economic dynamism.

By Leith van Onselen You have gotta love the hypocrisy of Australia’s politicians.

From The Australian: LABOR’S claim that an Abbott government would cut services to fund its promises is resonating in the electorate – but the Coalition is resisting huge pressure to crank up its own attack ads about Kevin Rudd.

From the AFR: The Financial Review’s Rebecca Thistleton reports that former PM John Howard has again weighed into the campaign.

By Leith van Onselen Tony Abbott’s promise to return the Federal Budget to surplus within a decade has met the wrath of a range of economists.

Cross-posted from Mark the Ballot.

By Leith van Onselen Back in the early-1930s, renowned economist, John Maynard Keynes, predicted that technical innovations and rising productivity would mean that advanced country workers would be able to work only 15 hours and still enjoy rising living standards.

Cross-posted from Ross Elliott at The Pulse.

The above video seems a fair enough assessment of last night’s return leaders debate.

  By Leith van Onselen It seems Tony Abbott’s paid parental leave (PPL) policy has no friends, with the superannuation industry now slamming the scheme for its adverse impact on retirement incomes.

By Leith van Onselen The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) has today launched the above video on its Make Australia website showcasing the wide range of inventions from Australia over its history.

By Leith van Onselen The Australian Newspaper today has provided a useful breakdown of longer-term major spending commitments by both major parties – i.e.

Cross-posted from Mark the Ballot.

Given the relatively light weekend news flow, Asian equities have seen limited interest from traders, with US futures highlighting this with an unchanged read from Fridays close.The USD is modestly offered, despite US treasuries opening a touch higher and testing Friday’s high of 2.86%.