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G20, can it save the world? – Australian Options spring issue

 


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G20 in OZ: can it save the world? is the focus of the Spring issue of Australian Options. Topics covered in a wide range of articles include: Australia may be hosting the G20 but it is no G20 leader, the BRICS bank proposal versus the G20, the widening gender pay gap is about to get worse, inequality in Australia, and developing an alternative progressive economic agenda.

The editorial, ‘The unseemly rush to a war without end’, can be read here. To subscribe, go to the website membership page.

Here are a few of the cartoons illustrating this issue.

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Meanwhile, back at the bonfire…

 

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In the lead up to the G20 meeting of Global leaders in Brisbane Australian Social Services Minister Kevin Andrews has declared that ‘We must continue efforts to combat corruption which is one of the greatest barriers to global growth’  (more in the Pro Bono News post here), while persisting with the government’s ‘promise’ to make a bonfire of pesky red and green tape – including the independent charities and not-for-profits regulator ACNC. Not considering that a lot of pesky red and green tape helps keep many organisations on the straight and narrow (see this post, ‘…there are powerful groups… that do not want the scrutiny of an independent body…’). Here is my Pro Bono News cartoon take on things.

 

Meanwhile, back at the bonfire…

‘Prime Minister Tony Abbott has placed the abolition of the charity regulator, the ACNC (Australian Charities and Not-for-Profits Commission)  on the top of his repeal day hit list describing the process as the biggest bonfire of regulations in the country’s history’ writes  the Pro Bono news website post ACNC In Repeal Day Bonfire. Social Services minister Kevin Andrews has introduced a Two-stage Plan to Abolish ACNC, removing ‘unnecessary regulatory control’ and  directing the sector to ‘self-manage’.

9500 other ‘unproductive regulations’ are also to be abolished. Hey, who needs government?

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Politics of Envy ….?

The new Australian government will be writing all it’s own punchlines…

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Taxing Options

Issues cover Winter 2013

Support alternative media – become a member of Australian Options – and get to download copies of the journal. The Winter issue features articles on taxation, climate change and more – including an interview with Frank Stillwell, political economist.

If you thought that Governments reducing taxes, but spending on health, education and the things governments should invest in (not to forget saving the planet), doesn’t add up … you were right.

Here are a few cartoons from the issue:

 

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… on the same planet?

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