18 January, 2011
Kim Carr is not only a political Neanderthal, he confuses billions with millions. Not content with hopelessly managing his own portfolio, he has now extended this incompetence to Stephen Conroy’s portfolio. In announcing yesterday the NBN Co’s equipment contracts he managed to get billions mixed up ...
19 December, 2010
Another week passes, and still the paralysing uncertainty continues for Australian business over the fate of proposed research and development (R&D) tax changes.
For well over a year, Innovation Minister Kim Carr has arrogantly ignored feedback on his plans to change the R&D regime.
He ha...
14 December, 2010
Labor‟s Cash for Clunkers election promise is under fire yet again – this time from its own Industry Department, confirming „Pink Batts on Wheels‟ is a disaster waiting to happen.
The Government has already been forced to defer the start date by six months.
But, as reported today, the Department ...
14 December, 2010
Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change Mark Dreyfus has added his name to the swelling list of Labor frontbenchers who don’t have a clue about their party’s Cash for Clunkers policy.
While being questioned today about revelations from the Department of Industry about the unravell...
02 December, 2010
2 December 2010
Statistics confirming another contraction in Australian manufacturing provide the Gillard Government with even more reasons to abandon its plans to cripple research and development (R&D) investment in the sector.
The November version of the monthly Australian Ind...
25 November, 2010
25 November 2010
Innovation Minister Kim Carr must stop impersonating a broken record and stop the spin on the research and development (R&D) changes he wants to force on to Australian businesses.
Mr Carr has this afternoon chosen to use a Ministerial media release to (again) accu...
25 November, 2010
25 November 2010
Innovation Minister Kim Carr has double-crossed Australian industry again this week by failing to allow the Senate to vote on his proposed changes to research and development (R&D) tax arrangements.
For the third time in five months, Mr Carr has been spooked by the pos...
22 November, 2010
22 November 2010
The Coalition today offered the Federal Parliament a way out of a protracted quagmire on changes to business research and development (R&D) tax incentives – but Labor again refused to listen.
In the House of Representatives, the Government voted against a series...
16 November, 2010
16 November 2010
Labor’s Cash for Clunkers program was supposed to be all about carbon abatement – but Climate Change Minister Greg Combet doesn’t have a clue how much these reduced emissions will cost.
This is another humiliating revelation in the saga of Labor’s attempts to introduce (an...
16 November, 2010
Monday November 15th
Julia Gillard is at odds again with her own Industry Minister on the fate of the Government’s Cash for Clunkers election policy howler.
In Question Time today, Ms Gillard distanced herself from Kim Carr’s refusal last week to guarantee that the Government’s car buyback...