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The folly of setting prices
Letter to the Editor: John Quiggin ('Microsoft deserves a hard time' AFR 11 Nov) demonstrates gaping holes both in his knowledge of competition law...
Insecure Elites
After crushing a popular uprising in 1953, the communist leaders of East Germany said that the people would have to work very hard to regain their...
ABC Needs a Culture Change
Jonathan Shier is the best person for Aunty's top job The defence by ABC TV journalist-producer John Millard (Opinion, Thursday) of the ABC's...
Contractors and Tax
In the last ten years or so the use of contractors has grown from 3% to more than 10% of the workforce. Yet even this substantial growth has been...
A Headless State Could be the Answer
I find both sides of the Republic debate equally unappealing, with their common resort to shabby arguments and specious warnings. Once again, the...
Fine-tuning GM labels
On Friday, Health Ministers will meet to determine the labelling requirements for Genetically Modified (GM) Food. Their decisions will have a...
Massacre of Truth at Forrest River
Horrific murders create two sets of surviving victims. The most obvious are the grieving families of those who have been killed. But the families...
Your ABC and a big case of bias
Lee Burton and June Factor (on this page on Wednesday) have enunciated a fascinating new theory of media analysis---big is beautiful or, at least,...
Don't Forget Gas Rivals in Pipeline
The quest for the 'just price'. This is how ACCC Chairman Allen Fels has described the mountain of paper and cacophony of voices that have...
ABC Watcher
Letter to the Editor: ABC Managing Director Brian Johns' response (Opinion, October 1) to my article (Opinion, September 30.) is at least proof...