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In the Home of the Free
Letter: So Christopher Reed is horrified that the upcoming US elections will cost about $US13 ($19.55) per American in campaign expenditure (which...
Myths for a Mendicant State
There are only two bases for sustainable prosperity. One is the path of independence: to provide goods and services that people wish to buy at...
Honorary Aboriginality for Us All
This is the year of Aboriginal Reconciliation, the culmination of a process the Hawke Labor Government began in 1991 in the hope of heading off the...
Openness Needed on Aboriginal Issues
Last week Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson probably put himself offside with the majority of Aborigines. He had a private meeting with Geoff...
All Eyes on Electricity Regulators' Price Reset
Over the past two years, Victoria's privatised electricity businesses have been on a merry-go-round of analysis and lobbying. The focus has been on...
Battle of the Giants
Back in October of last year, BHP announced that it was moving from an industrial award to individual workplace agreements in its Pilbara...
Give GM Foods A Go
The green/consumerist radicals had great sport last year in demonising genetically modified foods. They catapulted GM foods into one of the...
The Sorcerers' Apprehension
Do you want some comforting thoughts to help you face the tribulations that various experts have predicted for the years ahead? Cast your mind over...
Apocalypse now? Let's just hang on a moment...
No wonder Bob Carr always looks morose. The poor man has fallen for the apocalyptic scenarios promoted by the peddlers of environmental gloom. In a...
Moving Back to Full Employment
In August 1999, 653,000 Australians were officially unemployed, with an unemployment rate of seven per cent after eight years of sustained economic...