Terry McCrann has been looking at a Spanish study into alternative energy and has confirmed what critics have been saying - expensive green energy means less jobs not more.
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Terry McCrann has been looking at a Spanish study into alternative energy and has confirmed what critics have been saying - expensive green energy means less jobs not more. The analysis has two major conclusions. That for every ‘green job’ the state manages to finance, at least 2.2 jobs are lost elsewhere in the economy. I had an article published in the main Crikey e-newsletter today , outlining some of the trends, facts and government responses to the well over 40 million refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless people around the world. It seems likely the issue of asylum seeker boat arrivals will once again be moving closer to the political centre stage in Australia, even though these currently number less than 1000 out of those 40 000 000 plus people. I had an article published in the main Crikey e-newsletter today , outlining some of the trends, facts and government responses to the well over 40 million refugees, asylum seekers, internally displaced and stateless people around the world. It seems likely the issue of asylum seeker boat arrivals will once again be moving closer to the political centre stage in Australia, even though these currently number less than 1000 out of those 40 000 000 plus people For reasons I do not understand, a large proportion of the under-30 population believes that plurals are created by adding ’s. An error that was once restricted to Italian and Greek greengrocers (banana’s $1 a kilo etc) is now common. It is still relatively rare in professionally produced publications, but appears in an ABS release today. The problem with censorship is **** **** **** For anyone who has been in a coma over the last few weeks, there is some political upset in Iran. The problem with censorship is **** **** **** For anyone who has been in a coma over the last few weeks, there is some political upset in Iran. Some Muslims pretended to set up a democratic government. PM must keep hospitals promise – Hockey Prime Minister Kevin Rudd needs to live up to his election promise for a commonwealth takeover of state public hospitals, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says. Before the 2007 poll, Labor said it would seek a mandate for a federal takeover of public hospitals if the states and territories had not begun implementing a national reform plan by midway through this year. The Rudd government set up the Health and Hospitals Reform Commission to examine ways to reform the system, and that report was due to be handed to them on Tuesday PM must keep hospitals promise – Hockey Prime Minister Kevin Rudd needs to live up to his election promise for a commonwealth takeover of state public hospitals, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says. Before the 2007 poll, Labor said it would seek a mandate for a federal takeover of public hospitals if the states and territories had not begun implementing a national reform plan by midway through this year. The Rudd government set up the Health and Hospitals Reform Commission to examine ways to reform the system, and that report was due to be handed to them on Tuesday. Occasionally, there are news stories that at first sight seem so ridiculous, that on first impressions you just laugh. But then, on closer inspection, they send chills down your spine and really make you wonder, just how far can the state now go. What, if anything, is left sacred. |
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