SOMETIMES it takes a long time for politicians to grasp the obvious.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said this week that the Government would be open to changing Telstra’s ownership structure, including separating its retail and wholesale (infrastructure) businesses. Continue reading “Put Telstra out of its misery”
Month: July 2009
Freeways just get clogged
THE time for public submissions into the environmental impact of the Majura Parkway expired this week.
But the trouble with the parkway is not environmental – it goes through a bit of clapped out kangaroo and cattle country. The problem is more an economic one and one of federal-territory relations. Continue reading “Freeways just get clogged”
Relieving tax-return burden
About 12 million Australians, from this week, will begin doing tax returns.
It is a massive amount of paperwork even with the Australian Tax Office’s splendid e-tax system. And most of it is utterly unnecessary. Continue reading “Relieving tax-return burden”
Logic of newspapers’ survival
THE news about news came right from the very top.
The chief executive of News Ltd, Australia’s largest newspaper company, John Hartigan, told us that newspapers in Australia are not dying in the face of the internet. Continue reading “Logic of newspapers’ survival”