Tag Archives: Australia
HAP-less In Australia
Household Assistance Package A few weeks ago I went to a focus group and it turns out it really was the government trying to suss out how to gauge their ads for the Household Assistance Package. I tell you, it … Continue reading
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They Sure Hate…
They Hate the Unemployed Here’s an interesting experiment. A WA Greens Senator is attempting to live a week on $35/day. WA Greens Senator Rachel Siewert is trying to live on $35 a day in a bid to highlight that the … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 25/Apr/2012
Trying To Slip His Peter This Peter Slipper business for the last few days has been a bit of a joke. It’s a scandal for sure, but should he resign? It’s all a bit messy, what with Andrew Wilkie out … Continue reading
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I Get Asked What I Think Sometimes…
12.8 million For Hugh, Nothing For You The news this week for film industry types is that Hugh Jackman is going to bring his next Wolverine production back to Sydney. Because the degree of my jadedness – my ad-jade-ment if … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 19/Apr/2012
Entitlement, You Say? Joe Hockey’s out in the UK thumping his chest. He says Australia and the rest of the west need to wind back welfare and everybody should fend for themselves like they do in Hong Kong. Tony Abbott … Continue reading
Focus Group Fun
VIP = Vested Interest Policy I went to that focus group meeting last night. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be at all. It was actually a focus group on an ad campaign they’re planning to present … Continue reading
News That’s Fit To Punt – 03/Apr/2012
O Woe Was Me? They say the current unemployment in Australia sits at 5.2%. I don’t really know if this 5.2% figure is as solid as the kind of unemployment figures we used to have back in the late 1980s … Continue reading
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Notes From Japan 02/Apr/2012
Youth Unemployment And The Pension Just quickly, because I’m actually hard up for time at the moment… There’s an article here by Kenichi Ohmae (in Japanese) where he talks about the hidden youth unemployment in Japan. What’s interesting is on … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 23/Mar/2012
Shrinking Birthrates, Aging Populations One of the big issues in Japan is the collapse in fertility rates against the background of an aging population. Obviously, in the absence of immigration, a population will remain flat if the fertility rate is … Continue reading
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News That’s Fit To Punt – 19/Mar/2012
The Capital Gains Revenue And The Property Bubble I wrote about the problems of vested interests leading to the disasters in Japan, several times. In Australia we’re at this smug point of history where our government debt ratio to GDP … Continue reading
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