In a press conference punctuated by the occasional plane landing at Sydney airport ("you get used to it," Casey says), Di Natale and Casey set out the Greens case as the party of difference – climate change and asylum seeker policies featured strongly in their pitch to voters.
His policies featured substantial fiscal reform, including eliminating nearly $20 billion in taxes; introducing transparent, performance-based budgets; limiting the size of government as a percentage of state gross domestic product; carrying out debt affordability measures; and privatizing services that are run more efficiently by private-sector providers.
Its housing policy features better-quality homes, in model neighbourhoods.
New Delhi must now discard the myth of China's invincibility that has led it into appeasement, and devise a definitive China policy featuring at least three elements.
The policy features 26 weeks paid leave for both mums and dads (whoever is a Maxus employee) – this actively encourages parents to take up shared leave with a partner.
Despite fears that he will pursue a "dangerous" economic policy featuring a return to Keynesian tax-and-spend practices, Hollande and his campaign team have told the Germans that this has been ruled out.
On a substantive level, Yellen reaffirmed her support for the Fed's current ultra-accommodative monetary policy, featuring near-zero short-term interest rates and large-scale purchases of Treasury securities and other long-term bonds — a policy known as quantitative easing.
The mixed message comes amidst the freight of a foreign policy featuring drone strikes in Muslim countries, a reluctance to foreclose on indefinite detention that functionally is only aimed at Muslims, and difficulty concluding the war in Afghanistan – all of which have strained relations with American-Muslim communities.
© Martine Perret, UN Photo 2008 Investing in Youth Policy features a number of positive policy initiatives from Bhutan, Cambodia, Nepal, the Pacific, the Philippines, Timor Leste and Viet Nam.
