Last night Wayne Swan delivered his second budget. Now I don’t want to comment specifically on the details of that budget, but it would be remiss of me not to take the opportunity to remain topical. I believe that one of the many (and perhaps main) roles of Government is to provide for the disadvantaged [...]

Today the Rudd government announced they were going to fund research into Carbon capture technology. Money is going to be spent on research on a technology that IF, and it’s a big if, works will allow polluting industries to continue polluting. That money will, in the scheme of the Federal budget, now not be spent [...]