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