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It's Not Easy Beating Greens
A leftist vegetarian academic who once belonged to Greenpeace writes about the state of the world's environment. The outcome would seem...
Labor's Anti-Science Green Deal Betrays Knowledge Nation
Political parties have to change with the times. Sometimes they go too far. For example, in the time that my former Labor colleague Barry Jones was...
Don't Meddle in Petrol
As every car owner knows, the price of petrol fluctuates. In metropolitan areas the price moves between about 85 and 99 cents per litre. Those in...
Labor Launches Telstra Into the Past
We all know people who are consistently wrong. We don't trust them with our wallet. Then there are people who maintain consistency as history...
How to Beat the Dealers
A recent article in The Economist told us that a kilo of heroin, 40 per cent pure, sells on the streets for up to US$290,000 and that import prices...
Dealing with the Indonesian Connection
Kim Beazley is right. Proper management of the humanitarian, security and economic problems caused by boat people arriving illegally on our shores...
Trade Unions and Civil Society
An Address to the HR Nicholls Society XXIII Conference: The Changing Paradigm: Freedom, Jobs, Prosperity Available in PDF only.
Too Much Energy Going into Regulations
No serious authority can deny the price and performance improvement that has taken place in Australia's electricity and gas industries. Since its...
The ABC Collective
For the second federal election in a row, the ABC has succeeded in pushing the politicians off the front and making its own incompetence into an...
Kim's Corner Has Talent but no Killer Punch
Should Kim Beazley find himself in government on November 11, what would he do? We know about his stand on Tampa, not to mention funerals, but how...