A strong economy goes to the dogs
July 22, 2010
Julia Gillard is using photos of waterfront cranes to prove Australia has a strong economy. Here’s the ALP advertisement.
What do you notice? Those cranes belong to Patrick – the company at the centre of the 1998 waterfront dispute!!!
2 years ago in Parliament Julia Gillard compared the crane’s owners to dogs. Now she reckons those ‘dogs’ are the symbol of Labor’s ‘Strong Economy’.
And did the PM get her ‘Moving Forward’ line from The Simpsons?
If there’s one thing you click this week – THIS is it. It’s Dan Hannan’s review last week of a new book How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes. Watch the video of the author, Peter Schiff predicting the Global Financial Crisis in August 2006. It’s amazing. Schiff is now running for the US Senate.
Also in the video you’ll see how Ben Stein, the economist immortalised in this great scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off got it WRONG (and so did Arthur Laffer).
The IPA and the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation have just launched a new research program and a new website – The Foundations of Western Civilisation. We’ll be doing lots of history, philosophy, religion, and culture. The site will have blogs, book reviews, essays, and good stuff about Western Civilisation from the net.
Here’s the IPA’s Richard Allsop in The Spectator on why we shouldn’t apologise for Australian history. And here’s Richard speaking last week at the IPA’s Liberty Sessions on the significance of Geoffrey Blainey. And here’s the IPA’s Chris Berg on Kevin Rudd’s unkillability and here on the cuts he should have made years ago.
PS – Don’t forget the Melbourne launch of 100 Great Books of Liberty is on 11 August at 5.30pm. Michael Kroger, Peter van Onselen and Sally Warhaft will be discussing the topic ‘Do ideas matter in politics?’ It’s free but you’ve got to register – click here if you’d like to attend.
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