June 2016 - MyChoice Australia

Soft drink sugar tax is a fizzer

28 Jun, 201628 Jun, 2016 Lara

My kingdom for an iced mocha latte with a shot of cinnamon and pumpkin spice! The Greens – the party of big government and little logic – have announced that this election they’ll be serving up a 20% tax on sugary soft drinks. It looks an awful lot like they’re taking orders from celebrity busy-body Jamie Oliver, who was recently in Australia pushing his sugar tax. We wonder if di Natale can afford untaxed soft drink, given his struggles to pay his au pairs what he considers a fair wage….

A New Tax on the Poor

27 Jun, 2016 admin_ata

The Greens’ leader, Richard Di Natale, has proposed another tax. This is hardly groundbreaking given the progressive party’s penchant for using taxes to conduct their brand of social engineering but this time the targets are Australia’s poorest people. The suggested 20% tax on all soft drinks and fruit juices would disproportionately hurt low income earners, who are the largest consumers of soft drinks and who cannot afford the freshly-squeezed, ‘no-added-sugar’ brands of fruit juice enjoyed by the wealthy. Regressive taxes, like the GST and the Greens’ proposed sugar tax, cost…

How fair is Fare? The Canberra Lockouts

16 Jun, 201616 Jun, 2016 admin_ata

Henry Innis discovers who is behind the ‘popular support’ for Canberra’s lock out laws There’s a pretty interesting piece of research coming out of Canberra today — a poll showing most Canberra residents want 3am last drinks implemented. At a glance, it’s fairly innocuous. A poll in a newspaper shouldn’t be a big deal. But the results are somewhat surprising. Why would most Canberrans want this to be the case? When I studied history at Sydney University, one of the critical parts of your research was to identify…

The People’s Republic of WA

16 Jun, 201616 Jun, 2016 admin_ata

From the State that brought you the Potato Marketing Corporation to control the types and quantities of potatoes produced comes the latest attempt to turn Western Australia into a Venezuelan themed paradise. The Director of Liquor Licensing has released its decisionregarding Aldi’s application to sell liquor in their Harrisdale Shopping Centre store. This decision comes on the heels of the approval given to the Woolworths owned BWS to open a store at the same shopping centre. The decision noted that it was neither “necessary nor desirable” to have more than…