14 December, 2011
New Innovation Minister Greg Combet is trumpeting improvements in productivity and competitiveness now that his empire was been expanded - despite his disastrous history with industry.
Leopards don’t change their spots. Imprinted on our minds should be Mr Combet’s history including hi...
12 December, 2011
Julia Gillard confirmed today she has learnt nothing from the backlash against her toxic carbon tax with her appointment of Greg Combet as a de facto Industry Minister amid an extraordinary downgrading of the importance of manufacturing and industry policy.
As well as dumping the bel...
12 December, 2011
Four tortured years of backflips, broken promises and incoherent policies finally caught up with Kim Carr today – but his sacking as cabinet Minister is clearly being used to mask Julia Gillard’s own bungling of the innovation, industry, science and research portfolio.
Mr Carr’...
07 December, 2011
Mike Devereux, President of the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, today reaffirmed that the carbon tax is a heavy and unfair cost that will be imposed on local manufacturers yet competing imports will be exempt.
Speaking at the National Press Club, Mr Devereux in answer to a media q...
01 December, 2011
Australian manufacturing has recorded yet another month of decline, while Labor indulges in yet another review and defers any policy decisions for a least a further six months.
The Australian Industry Group – PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Performance Index (PMI) data f...
30 November, 2011
Industry Minister Kim Carr needs to explain why he has been rolled again, after the embarrassing revelation that the Government has set aside a total of just $800,000 for its main steel industry compensation package in the first two years of the carbon tax.
MYEFO documents show that ...
30 November, 2011
Labor started with an industry policy document in 2007 which suggested improving “dialogue”, “discussions” and a “forum” supported by “councils”, a “partnership” and a “review”. Four years later Julia Gillard has announced today that it’s time to do some more talking.
After taking two month...
29 November, 2011
Despite an alarming decline in the number of Australian tertiary student enrolments in science and mathematics, the Gillard Government has arrogantly rammed through HECS increases which will only add to lower student demand for these critical disciplines.
Today’s changes represent yet more ...
28 November, 2011
The Christmas holiday break can’t come soon enough for a clearly uninspired Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor, who has again tied himself in a series of knots today on anti-dumping.
In a bid to revive a faltering scare campaign, Mr O’Connor used a National Press Club address to spread ye...
23 November, 2011
Home Affairs Minister Brendan O’Connor and Trade Minister Craig Emerson should apologise to Tony Abbott and the Coalition for their bleating about our anti-dumping policy after their stunning own goal in the Parliament today.
Labor falsely claimed that our proposed use of preliminary affirm...