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Let the Power Flow
The Victorian Government finds itself between a rock and a hard place on electricity prices. Either it must allow price increases to households of...
Profit the Primary Corporate Responsibility
Apart from psychopaths and eccentric individualists, virtually everyone wants to be thought of as being socially responsible. So it is not...
Stay Wedded for All Our Sakes
Wifework by Susan Maushart, prominently reviewed in The Australian Magazine (State of the Union) and in Monday's Focus, gives a personal, jaded and...
No State Role in Family Affair
If a married man fathers a child from an affair with an adult woman, and persuades his existing family to accept mistress and child into his own...
Corporate Code of Conduct Ruse
The Australian Democrats' Corporate Code of Conduct Bill 2000 is being scrutinised by the Parliamentary Joint Statutory Committee on Corporations...
Has the Inheritance Been Well Spent?
When the Bracks Government came to power eighteen months ago, it enjoyed a huge inheritance built on seven year of vigorous reform. The question...
California: Causing a Re-think of Electricity Policy?
The Californian power crisis presents all governments with a salutary lesson. For almost two years now Californians have been facing rolling...
Cook Plays Racism Card
What is the most effective way of making race a political issue? In the United Kingdom, the Commission for Racial Equality has provided a simple...
Third Sector
Third Sector: the contribution of nonprofit and cooperative enterprises in Australia by Mark Lyons, Allen and Unwin, 2001, 248 pages Mark Lyons is...
Time to Stop Bashing Petrol Companies
It is time that pollies and the regulators stopped playing politics with petrol. Their frequent claims of price gouging by the petrol companies are...