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Green Power Will Cost Us
The ALP's policy decision to ratify the Kyoto Convention on greenhouse would deliver a cruel blow to the Victorian electricity industry and to the...
Time to Condemn Fanatics
Imagine that a wealthy, far-flung and fanatical Christian group, outraged by the mistreatment of Christians in a Muslim country such as Sudan, was...
Politics of Power
QUEENSLAND Premier Peter Beattie has made the astonishing suggestion that he will turn national competition policy into an election issue if he...
Union Muscle Chokes Business to Death
Ansett's bankruptcy has a message that goes far beyond the airline industry. It is a message that union muscle can strangle the goose that lays the...
Taxes---How to Cut the Cake Differently
'To tax and to please ... is not given to men' [Edmund Burke 1774] We all hate taxes. This is a healthy state of affairs. It is the only restraint...
The Demise of Ansett
Ansett's collapse should send a chill around Australia. Not just because of its demise, but because of what it says about our work culture and its...
Just Asking for a Rethink
Like most Australians, I was appalled by the pictures of Palestinians celebrating the terrorist assaults on the World Trade Centre and the...
Who Should Bear the Costs of Workers' Entitlements?
Employee anger over the loss of their accrued entitlements by failed firms should at first instance be directed at Australia's industrial relations...
Cause and Effects
Times are difficult for those who seek to demonstrate their moral superiority over other Australians by trumpeting their support for Aboriginal...
Secrets & Lies
Is it possible to distinguish genuine Aboriginal traditions from those that have been invented recently for cynical motives? Last week's...