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Provincial Revolt, the Theme for the 90s
The 1990s are going out the way they came, with a competent State government led by a popular Premier with a large majority coming an electoral...
Media bias: It's as easy as ABC
With the national broadcaster under the control of journalists, the lunatics are running the asylum There is an idea abroad amongst journalists...
The Trouble with Auntie
Your ABC is biased, answerable to no one, and doing damage to our democracy There is an idea among journalists that the intrusion of proprietors,...
Want to win? Look after rural Australia
The 1990s are going out the way they came, with a competent State government led by a popular Premier with a large majority coming an electoral...
Real Cause for Embarrassment
It is still twelve months till the start of the sporting program for the Sydney Olympics. But the Olympics embarrassment program is well under way,...
Greenhouse tax would galvanise fuel industry
Last month a position paper of the coal based electricity generators opposed ratifying the Kyoto greenhouse gas agreement and carbon taxes. Coal...
Dilemma in Making Amends
A mother holds her young child over a deep precipice. 'You see how much I love you', she says to the terrified youngster. 'Even though you are...
Father of economic rationalism
also published in The West Australian on 17 September 1999 and The Age, 4 October 1999 Who in Australian politics is the father of the reform...
The Imperial Media at its Most Arrogant
In 25 years of observing Australian politics, I have never seen the Australian media, particularly the 'quality' media, so breathtakingly partisan...
New Economy, New Workplace
The combination of sustained non-inflationary growth and falling unemployment in certain Western economies is challenging traditional economic...