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Healthcare: bang for buck
There seems to be some 'confusion' about recent health spending. Kevin Rudd told a Q & A audience that the previous government 'took a billion...
GST sure to rise under Rudd's health takeover
Do we really want some Canberra bureaucrat determining how much should be spent on our wellbeing? WHILE Kevin Rudd acknowledged the "long-suffering...
Activist left's global agenda
The great divergence between classical liberals and their philosophical opponents has always been the primacy placed on freedom in people's lives...
Massachusetts' message
The US Democrats Senate election failure in their traditionally Massachusetts stronghold was a consequence of President Obama not listening to why...
More police on the beat the answer to drunks' violence
What have the NSW Police been drinking? An email from Chief Inspector Haberley to Sydney bottle shops asks that they take full-strength products...
The perils of a fat tax
If the legislation for the Orwellian-sounding Australian National Preventive Health Agency passes, then expect an avalanche of make-work...
Ultimate civic nonsense
Kevin Rudd announced on Tuesday that he wanted the federal government to be involved in the urban planning for Australia's cities. Presumably, he...
The nanny state will nag you to death
This week parliament will debate a bill to establish a national Preventive Health Agency, reminding of that classic Mark Twain observation: nobody...
Alcohol is good - so let's drink to that
Australia's relationship with alcohol is ''calculated hedonism'', according to the latest of many reports into drinking commissioned by the federal...
No beer, no pies, no fags - the future of Australia?
If the National Health Preventative Taskforce has its way, by 2020 Australians should be beer-refusing, meat pie-avoiding non-smokers. Bottle shops...