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SIR.' In his attack on Bain Attwood (January-February 2006) Gregory Haines says that at the 2004 conference of the Australian Historical Association I gave a 'provocative, honest paper on how [...]

The article presents the author's views on life insurance retirement plan (LIRP) which gives clients the tax-free advantages of a Roth individual retirement account (IRA). He offers information on LIRP which is an accumulation tool that has similar tax-free attributes of traditional retirement accounts and does not contribute to the income thresholds that trigger taxation. However, he notes that expenses can overwhelm the growth in the accumulation account unless LIRP is structured correctly.

The article discusses the author's view on tax-free financial planning. He notes that financial consumers must be willing to grow their assets in taxable accounts, tax-deferred accounts or tax-free accounts. The author states about growing assets inside and outside the estate. Meanwhile, he mentions about the liquidity of assets.

The author discusses the benefits that equity indexed universal life (EIUL), also known as life insurance retirement plan (LIRP), has to offer in the U.S. He cites the benefits of EIULs including death benefit passes tax-free to heirs, contributions grow tax-deferred, and distributions do not cause Social Security to be taxed. Meanwhile, the author mentions that many financial advisors are recommending an EIUL due to the threat of higher tax rates and increased market volatility.

The author discusses the essay "Australian Story," by Mungo MacCallum. This essay focuses on Australian politics and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The author cites MacCallum's version of Australia's history, from the strikes of the 1890s, which resulted in the founding of the Australian Labor Party. He claims that according to MacCallum, Rudd was able to manage the divine meaning of the Australian tradition that involves both the larrikin outlaw and the dutiful citizen, resulting to his popularity among Australians.

During the Cold War in Australia, the political agenda was dominated by the threat of communism. One factor in building this agenda was the ‘counter-propaganda operations’ of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) which regularly released unattributable information to selected mass media outlets. In the period when these activities were most prevalent (1960–72), ASIO officers had regular contact with editors and with selected journalists on major newspapers and television. This formed part of a broader ‘cultural Cold War’ in which anti-communism was an organising principle. This article outlines new information on these activities, suggests that these operations were more extensive than previously thought, and discusses this relationship in terms of the scholarly work on media sources, government-sponsored intervention in the media and classical theories of propaganda. It suggests that one way to understand the controversial media role in counter-propaganda operations lies in the relationship between police and crime reporters.

This article examines whether, and in what way, anti-communism was a factor in the slow development of an Australian film industry in the 1950s and early 1960s and in the kind of film culture developed in Australia, particularly through film festivals. In particular it examines the activities of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) towards left and liberal filmmakers and film lovers. It briefly examines the effect of anti-communism on the struggle for Australian content by Actors' Equity in the early years of television.

This article discusses journalism as a form of ‘vernacular literature’ and explores two traditions of reporting: the objective and the interpretive. In the first, emphasis is placed on the fact; in the second, on the story. In these terms, the article examines the transformation of the reporting style of the Sydney Morning Heraldfrom objective reporting to interpretive reporting in the early 1980s. It examines the Herald's journalism from the 1950s to the 1970s as an exemplar of the objective style. It also comments on the linkage between these styles and differing rationales about the purpose of journalism in terms of market values and non-market values.

For many years, Australia's internal securtity agency, ASIO, ran security checks on potential and actual ABC staff and monitored ABC radio and TV broadcasts, noting examples of left-wing influence. This was done with the cooperation of ABC senior management and the encouragement of the conservative federal government. These facts, long suspected, are now confirmed by the use of recently released archives which give specific instances of security surveillance and vetting.

The article focuses on the strategies being adopted by financial advisors to help protect clients from the impact of higher taxes, such as the tax-free paradigms that put clients in the zero percent tax bracket. It states that the tax-free paradigm proposes the removal of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from the retirement equation. The author explores the strategies of various financial advisors such as Dave Ramsey and Ed Slott.

The article discusses the implications of careful positioning of the assets during accumulation to help protect client from rising taxes. It highlights the need to understand the merit of the 0% tax bracket. It indicates that defining the three basic types of investment buckets which are taxable, tax-deferred, and tax-free will help client appreciate the benefits of the 0% tax bracket.