(This review is cross-posted at Goodreads.) Theorists of the left and the right argue that there are tensions if not contradictions between democracy and capitalism. Left-wing theorists argue tha...
https://andrewnorton.info/2019/12/16/the-symbiosis-of-capitalism-and-democracy/
In the 1990s I was interested in the social capital literature, as a way of empirically addressing some of the ‘communitarian’ criticisms of liberalism that I was writing about in my eventual...
As the media is reporting, the High Court has today ruled in favour of Symone Anstis in her claim to deduct from her taxable income expenses incurred in maintaining eligibility for Youth Allowanc...
The Education Tax Rebate – whether Labor’s version or the more expensive Coalition version announced today – is the march of welfare quarantining beyond the income-support reliant lower cla...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/07/21/welfare-quarantining-for-the-middle-class/
Yet more handouts to families, this time to fund school uniforms, are another sure sign that an election is about to be called. But as we have seen before, such is the sense of entitlement built ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/07/14/cheesed-off-working-families/
Because the number of people with Australian residence rights crept up with little public awareness or debate, our thinking about what this means for them and for the permanent population is not ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/04/07/some-implications-of-a-large-temporary-population/
International students have long campaigned for public transport fare concessions. I have argued before that this is based on a mistaken understanding of why Australian students receive cheaper f...
https://andrewnorton.info/2010/03/11/does-full-fare-public-transport-deter-international-students/
As reported this morning, the full court of the Federal Court has rejected the ATO’s appeal against the decision we discussed in April to allow as tax deductions expenses that help make student...
https://andrewnorton.info/2009/11/05/should-students-be-able-to-claim-ya-eligibility-expenses/
As the Productivity Commission’s annual Trade and Assistance review revealed yesterday, corporate welfare is on the increase. After increasing at an annual rate of around 6% until mid-decade, i...
https://andrewnorton.info/2009/05/28/corporate-welfare-on-the-rise/
It’s not often that a classical liberal unites with a Labor government in support of a more egalitarian income distribution. But that is what I am doing in the current controversy over changes ...
https://andrewnorton.info/2009/05/20/should-the-new-ya-independence-test-be-delayed/