Tag: Joe Hockey

  • My favourite things by Joe Hockey

    My favourite things by Joe Hockey

    Michaela Vaughan [twitname]mvaughan101[/twitname] Economies in crisis and rad budgets written Coal and big business with which I’m smitten Spurious promises tied up with string These are a few of my favourite things  

  • What we could buy instead of shiny new jets

    What we could buy instead of shiny new jets

    The Abbott government focused much of its election campaign on the supposed budget “emergency”. They’ve cut funding for higher education, welfare, foreign aid and environmental programs. In contrast, the government has also recently committed $12.4 billion to a new batch of Joint Strike Force (JSF) fighter jets, which will cost an additional $12 billion in…