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Renewable energy rules lose traction

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Australian Financial Review 1st February, 2012

Energy policy in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries is spurred by concerns that gas and oil are becoming...

Fair's fare benefits government, not business

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Herald Sun 14th January, 2012

The Rudd/Gillard governments have introduced many business-unfriendly policies. Three of these the mining tax, Fair Work Australia (FWA) and the...

Slay the super sacred cow

Economics & Deregulation | John Roskam
Australian Financial Review 13th January, 2012

There's one good thing about the local stockmarket falling 15 per cent last year: people are beginning to ask what the point is of compulsory...

Era of cheap energy needn't be over

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit, Energy and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Australian Financial Review 11th January, 2012

Energy Minister Martin Ferguson has launched the government's draft white paper on energy. Having run the gauntlet of bureaucratic committees, much...

The Gold, the Red and the Green

Economics & Deregulation | Alan Moran
Quadrant 10th January, 2012

There has been one constant in the defining struggle in politics over the past two centuries. That struggle has been between those who want more of...

Opposition to coal seam gas doesn't hold water

Economics & Deregulation, Deregulation Unit and Climate Change | Alan Moran
Sydney Morning Herald 28th December, 2011

New technology has allowed coal seam gas (CSG), previously known as the menacing cause of mine explosions, to become prominent as an energy source....

Convergence Review: complete, spectacular failure

Economics & Deregulation, Ideas & Liberty and Deregulation Unit | Chris Berg
The Drum 21st December, 2011

The Convergence Review "has assembled what could be a workable model for regulating the converged media environment," said Greens Senator Scott...

How the Red Cross virtually lost the plot

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Age 18th December, 2011

As long as human beings have been creating fictional worlds, moralists have been denouncing their creations. But the news that the Red Cross might...

Should alcohol carry warnings?

Economics & Deregulation and Deregulation Unit | James Paterson
The Herald Sun 18th December, 2011

Proposals for government-mandated health warnings on alcohol treat Australians as if they are too stupid to look after their own health, and are...

New technology and the call for censorship

Ideas & Liberty and Freedom of Speech | Chris Berg
The Drum 14th December, 2011

The first recorded call for press censorship wasn't for reasons of politics, or heresy, or public morality. It was to police "quality". The...