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Turning Tables on Monster Makers
You have to hand it to the greens. They really know how to push the buttons that generate unnecessary public alarm. Their latest triumph of...
World Economic Forum Protest Loses the Plot
'It is clear that globalization and free markets left to themselves do not always produce the desired or necessary results for society at large.'...
The Pretension of Virtue
I was reading one of the best, and the funniest, book on Australia I have ever read---Bill Bryson's Down Under---when I came across a passage which...
On GM Food
Letter to the Editor: Also published in The Age, 26 July 2000 Your article "It's safety first, but there's not guarantees" (Herald, July 24) gives...
Signs Point to Trouble Ahead
A few years ago the American humorist Dave Barry presented a vexing scenario to his readers. Imagine that your wedding ring falls into the toaster,...
Print's Elite Puts Virtue Above Veracity
Opinion polls tell us that newspaper journalism is the least respected or, if one is harsh, most despised of professions. Only car salesmen...
GM Labelling: Impossible and Unnecessary
Unless we throw a crowbar into its wheels, GM technology will reduce costs to farmers and eventually consumers. The technology allows plant output...
Many are disenchanted with ABC's Correctness
If anyone should be a natural defender of the ABC it is John Howard (and if that makes you laugh, that is revealing in itself). After all, like...
'Sorry State'
Canada has long been a model for those caring and enlightened folk who think that social engineering, judicial activism and frequent breast-beating...
Seeking a Declaration of Independence
If a Parliament were to pass a law stating that orange was an egg and that health regulations required that oranges had to be packed, stored, sold...