'Policy while you wait' not long-term solution

By Pat Caruana
Updated February 28 2015 - 9:52am, first published February 27 2015 - 5:48pm
Pat Caruana: ''Slapping a new tax on people wanting to spend money in this country seems to be completely contrary to mainstream liberal thought, and it also sends the wrong message to the Chinese investors upon whom Tasmania has pinned much of its economic future.''.
Pat Caruana: ''Slapping a new tax on people wanting to spend money in this country seems to be completely contrary to mainstream liberal thought, and it also sends the wrong message to the Chinese investors upon whom Tasmania has pinned much of its economic future.''.

JUST as drowning men clutch at straw, struggling governments reach for populism whenever the tide of political opinion looks like consuming them.

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