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Hong Kong's Intervention is Australia's Opportunity
Australia's chance of becoming the major financial center in Asia got a real boost over the last month from the Hong Kong Government. During the...
Resolving Our Differences
Many years ago, during one of my research trips to Tanna Island in Vanuatu, I was visited by a delegation of traditional elders who wanted me to...
Welfare Lobby Harming Their Own
Oh for God's sake this is pathetic! On the tax package the welfare lobby can't see past their bibs. The Catholics are outraged that their nursing...
Hanson the Chameleon
Will the real Pauline Hanson please stand up! For a politician whose popularity is based on her supposed willingness to talk straight, she speaks...
Overdue, Fair and Goes to the Mark
Mr Howard's deserves an 8 out of 10 for his tax package. The package does what Mr Howard promised last May when he set-off along the path of tax...
Nationalism, Not Economics, Drives Hanson's Support
The Hanson phenomenon is being written up as a revolt against 'economic rationalism' and the economic reform agenda of the last 15 years. There are...
Social Harm in Some Old Beliefs
What caused the tsunami that killed over 2,000 villagers near Aitape on the north coast of Papua New Guinea a fortnight ago? Scientists would...
The Unfinished Business of Unfair Dismissal
If you want to know why unemployment is stuck at over 8%---just look at the sorry saga of unfair dismissal regulation. Up until the early 1990s...
For Privatisation
Is government competent to do anything the political system decides it should do? Is government always the best available social mechanism to do...
The Unfinished Business of Unfair Dismissal
If you want to know why unemployment is stuck at over 8%---just look at the sorry saga of unfair dismissal regulation. Up until the early 1990s...