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The inside (success) story of free markets
The great economic and political debate of the 20th century has been between central planners and free marketeers. The apparent victors have been...
Mainstream lost in the slipstream of reconciliation
If the draft Declaration for Reconciliation is accepted in its present form, Australia will be a diminished nation. Quite literally. For the...
Nothing to Fear from Genetically-Modified Tomato Paste but Fear Itself
Among its budget measures, the Federal Government announced that it will establish the grandiloquent Office of Gene Technology Regulator. Amid all...
IMF's Role Bubbles Along
Bubble economies like Australia in the 1960s and Japan in the 1980s occur because of sustained and systematic downplaying of the inherent risks in...
Crossed Wires Threaten Energy Privatisation
The New South Wales voters may have delivered an unambiguous thumbs down to electricity privatisation but the issues that persuaded the Premier and...
A Major Blunder by the Coalition
Senator Richard Alston's internet censorship bill---the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Online Services) Bill 1999---displays a conjunction of...
A Victim of the Shame Game
Should Australia take any notice of criticisms from United Nations committees? Earlier this week Sir Ronald Wilson said that the Government's...
Aunty's poor record on bias
Letter to the Editor: If bias is unmeasurable, as Hugh Mackay and Stephen Braun claim (Opinion 13/5), then media organisations such as the ABC...
United we own, united we fall
Also published in the Adelaide Review, June 1999 Did you know that the United States started off communist? Both the original Jamestown settlement,...
Activists are Playing the Shame Game
Small children invariably see themselves as the centres of their little worlds, believing that everyone is fascinated with all they do. The threats...