The intimidating strategy of Alan Jones and Ray Hadley plus some other news and views




Bennelong by the numbers: The voters who could decide Malcolm Turnbull’s fate - The New Daily
More Bennelong residents describe their ancestry as Chinese than Australian or English. In total, 51.7 per cent were born overseas.
Gone to the dogs: intimidating strategy Alan Jones and Ray Hadley used in war against Mike Baird - Imre Salusinszky who was media director for former premier Mike Baird on the SMH website
Make a ludicrous claim and say you don't buy the denials. But even if the denials are true, "this is what is being said" ... by you. ... You can see the strategy: before you do any "checking whether that's true or not", quickly put the slur to air, and accuse the Premier of "corruption of process". ... Tabloid media in NSW is collapsing. Younger audiences have no interest in its agenda, and its power resides largely in the minds of the Coalition MPs it seeks periodically to intimidate and terrorise. But in the meantime, rather than arguing about scalps, it would be worth discussing whether this behaviour serves the interests of journalism, of rational public policy, or indeed of democracy in NSW.
The effects of employer payroll tax cuts on employment, business activity and wages - Vox
Cuts to the employer portion of payroll taxes are often discussed as a policy lever to reduce labour costs for firms. This column examines the effects of a Swedish experiment which dramatically cut employer payroll taxes for young workers between 2007 and 2015. The tax cut reduced youth unemployment by 2-3 percentage points, without any differential increase in wages of young workers. Firms used the tax windfall to expand employment and business activity, and firms with larger tax windfalls raised wages for workers – both young and old – collectively.
Why England and Australia love to hate each other: Anglo-Australian sport is invariably played with unusual and sometimes disturbing fervour. - The New Statesman

Sugar industry withheld evidence of sucrose's health effects nearly 50 years ago, study shows - Science Daily

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