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		<title>Mankiw on Pigovian taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 06:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just found a nice piece by Greg Mankiw on Pigovian taxes: Smart Taxes: An Open Invitation to Join the Pigou Club. I think I&#8217;m a member. The abstract is: Many economists favor higher taxes on energy-related products such as gasoline, while the general public is more skeptical. This essay discusses various aspects of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=747&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unions and the ALP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relationship between the ALP and trade unions is problematic. The current circumstance in which a collection of trade unions affiliated to the ALP &#8211; representing a small fraction of working Australians &#8211; exercise a great deal of influence in selecting political candidates and party officers for the major centre-left Australian political party, is unhealthy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=744&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reforming the ALP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My very irregular blog updates reflect my busyness in the five months since starting my new role at the Allen Consulting Group. It’s been extremely rewarding and challenging – the name of the game is tap dancing and adapting at a moment’s notice. Reform of the ALP – and separately the NSW ALP &#8211; has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=742&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cull approved for sulphur-crested cockatoos in Potts Point!</title>
		<link>http://blumensacha.wordpress.com/2011/10/30/cull-approved-for-sulphur-crested-cockatoos-in-potts-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 04:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[City News reported on 6 October 2011 that the NSW Government has given cull licenses to a number of Potts Point building owners. Shame! I agree with vet Ross Perry: Bird vet Ross Perry said a cull is inhumane and only a short term option. “I personally think it is an act of ignorance. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=738&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the cull of the Potts Point cockatoos!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrible news &#8211; I just learned that some of my neighbours up the road would like to cull the fabulous sulphur-crested cockatoos (thanks My Darling Darlinghurst blog) that squark and terrorise the inner east of Sydney &#8211; Woolloomooloo, Darlinghurst, Kings Cross and Elizabeth Bay. How dreadful! I love the cockatoos &#8211; they&#8217;re like a bunch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=732&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Selling NSW govt electricity networks could raise $35 billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW government could raise $29 billion &#8211; $35 billion, if not substantially more, from sellng its electricity distribution and transmission networks. These numbers come from summing the RABs (regulatory asset bases) of the four businesses and applying a conservative multiplicative factor. This is a very large amount of money. Careful consideration should be given [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=729&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Submissions &#8211; NSW Special Commission into Electricity Transactions</title>
		<link>http://blumensacha.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/submissions-nsw-special-commission-into-electricity-transactions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sacha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult to find submissions to the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry into Electricity Transactions. Google searches throw up the following: NSW Business Chamber submission Infrastructure Partnerships Australia submission City of Sydney (can only find a reference to a submission) Public Service Association (PSA indicated that it put forward its submission to the Owen Inquiry) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=726&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Prime Minister Gillard may survive a by-election loss</title>
		<link>http://blumensacha.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/why-prime-minister-gillard-may-survive-a-by-election-loss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 09:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sacha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A by-election loss for the Gillard Labor Government need not lead to Tony Abbott becoming Prime Minister. Gillard has the support of 76 members of the House of Representatives while Abbott has the support of 74 (counting Tony Crook). With one Labor MP as Speaker, this turns into a 75-74 vote on confidence motions on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=721&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas of NSW</title>
		<link>http://blumensacha.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/atlas-of-nsw/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sacha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NSW Land and Property Information division of the Department of Finance and Services has recently published its online Atlas of NSW overlaying all types of statistical information onto maps of NSW covering on the topics of economy, elections, environment, history, people and the 2006 census. I&#8217;ve only looked in detail at the elections section, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=719&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NSW Parliament publication &#8211; NSW Election 2011: Overview of Legislative Assembly Results</title>
		<link>http://blumensacha.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/nsw-parliament-publication-nsw-election-2011-overview-of-legislative-assembly-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 09:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sacha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australian state politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My blog has suffered from neglect recently due to my extreme business in my new job as a consultant for the Allen Consulting Group. I thought I&#8217;d publish a link to something students of NSW politics will be very in interested &#8211; the NSW Parliament&#8217;s publication on the lower house results of the 2011 NSW [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blumensacha.wordpress.com&amp;blog=94153&amp;post=717&amp;subd=blumensacha&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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