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The Future Belongs to Us
Oh what a time to be in business in Australia. The economy is going gang-busters. The Aussie dollars, despite its recent rise, is still one of the...
Building a Case Against Unions
What's going on at the Royal Commission into the Building Industry? The Commission's brief is to investigate unlawful and inappropriate conduct and...
Power Without Reason
The Kyoto climate control agreement is back in the news. Under this agreement, countries tentatively agreed to limit emissions of greenhouse gases...
Is the National Broadcaster Biased or Just Doing its Job?
The ABC's is progressively removing itself from mainstream Australian opinion. The cooperative that ruins 'Auntie' largely defines itself by being...
The Inmates are Running the Asylum
Can anyone imagine News Corp or Fairfax or indeed any serious company going six months without a managing director? The ABC has and the...
The Taxman Cometh
While the 2002/03 Federal Budget was in the main a bland affair, it is likely to give many businesses real grief. The budget funds for a new army...
Foreign Aid Bodies Need Closer Scrutiny
It's probably just as well the proposed anti-terrorism laws have been scuttled by the Senate. Otherwise, most of Australia's foreign-aid...
Stop Strangling Telstra
Telstra has too many bosses. It has the Commonwealth government and through them the electorate, it has its shareholders, a group which includes...
Questions Raised by Workplace Deaths Bill
The recent blocking of the Victorian Government's controversial corporate manslaughter legislation by the state Opposition does not close the...
LIES and Statistics
Following the Statistician's release of the 2001 trade union membership, ACTU President Sharan Burrow declared, "The long term trend of declining...