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Choosing their villains
State premiers and big business have a lot in common these days. Neither is much liked at the moment. State governments, especially Labor ones...
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...
Schools should be free to teach what they want
Most people seem to have missed the point about the national curriculum. The opposition certainly has. If the national curriculum is as bad as...
Price of a new house could be so much cheaper
A misdirected email from Justin Madden's office showed the Brumby Government at its manipulative worst. Following a planning review into the iconic...
Triumph of the iconoclast who sparked the history wars
"In his desire to restore the balance between white man and black man and to make up for our scandalous neglect of the Aboriginal heritage, he has...
Financially green behind the ears
With the latest state polls revealing a surge in Green support, it is appropriate to subject their election promises to analysis befitting of the...
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...
The politics of climate change is changing
When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many contributors to this site do, that anthropogenic global warming is destroying the...
Libertarians spoke out when state began to meddle
Ross Gittins seems to think libertarians have quietly watched as the Rudd government has bungled its response to the north Atlantic banking crisis...
A turnaround on climate change
"Public loses faith in climate change" was the headline of a report in Britain's The Guardian newspaper last month. According to a Mori poll, the...