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Market for CDs is fiercely competitive
Letter to the Editor: Mr Lee and Dr Walker of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission suggest (CDs and free trade, 9/6) that I am...
They Had the Tests, but No Explosion
It is well over a month since India tested five nuclear weapons, and three weeks since Pakistan retaliated with its own tests. Although the...
Asian Malaise Calls for Australia to Take Cure
To reform or not to reform, that is the question confronting governments. Over the last 15 years, the Australian economy has been transformed by...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Tax Reform
Howard has put Taxation reform back at the top of the political agenda. Some say courageously but, whether he regrets putting it there or not, he...
Interactive (on Pauline Hanson)
Pauline Hanson's political future depends greatly on the very people who are most vocal in denouncing her. Her own qualities are unimpressive---she...
The Pauline Hanson Story ... by the man who knows
A Review of The Pauline Hanson Story...by the man who knows by John Pasquarelli Why has such an inadequate politician, Pauline Hanson aroused such...
An Enemy They'd Hate to Lose
If One Nation does poorly in next Saturday's state election, a lot of people around Australia are going to be extremely disappointed. Obviously,...
Reforms Mean Power for Small Business
Business is set to get another big dividend from reform of the electricity sector. As of next month, many small businesses will be free to choose...
Gulf Is Neither Wide nor Deep
About five years ago, I was working through an Australian Bureau of Statistics publication about Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the 1986...
The Politics of Taxation Reform
I remember asking Lionel Bowen in the lead up to the 1980 election what the key issues would be during the campaign. 'Tax my boy, same as the last...