Monthly Archives: May 2022

Super-high coal royalties to help address Qld hospitals crisis

Posted on May 27, 2022 by Gene Tunny

As I predicted earlier this month (see John McCarthy’s 13 May InQld article), the Queensland Government will be boosting health spending in the upcoming budget to deal with the hospitals crisis, and to a large extent it’s able to do … Continue reading →

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If you’re sick of politics BAU, check out my Pirate Party economics podcast interview

Posted on May 11, 2022 by Gene Tunny

What does the economic policy platform of a Pirate Party look like? What does it say about intellectual property protection (i.e. copyright and patents), the Right to Repair, UBI, taxation, and business support? And what type of pirates are Pirate … Continue reading →

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Economic update: interest rates, monetary policy, fiscal policy, and coal prices

Posted on May 7, 2022 by Gene Tunny

The election debate would benefit from a clear understanding of the factors affecting interest rates, now that the RBA has increased the cash rate from the “emergency level” of 0.1%, practically the lowest it could go, to the still extraordinarily … Continue reading →

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