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Competition Better than Regulatory Compulsion
We have now seen almost a decade of contention over the regulatory regime for controlling Australia's natural gas supply. The present warzone is a...
Checking on Charities
Jim McGinty is cutting non-government organisations (NGOs) out of the health funding loop. What is that all about? After all, the NGOs are just...
Interference Driving up Electricity Prices
When markets replaced integrated electricity supply systems, Victoria parcelled the State Electricity Commission into a dozen components and sold...
Just a Couple of Suits Talking
Conventional wisdom in the media argues that voters need more election debates in the campaign. As The Australian put it yesterday: 'The great...
Social Responsibility and Society
Corporate social responsibility may be couched in the language of reasonableness and fairness, but in reality it is a racket that threatens many...
Time for Tax Cuts
The unexpectedly large budget surplus has again raised the spectre of tax cuts, and not before time. The tax reform of a few years ago did little...
Green 'Truth' Just a Load of Hot Air
The publication of Bjorn Lomborg's meticulously researched tome The Skeptical Environmentalist in 1998 shocked the environmental movement....
Best Person to Handle Health's Heady Brew
John Howard's unexpected Ministerial reshuffle clearly indicates his own lack of certainty about the next election. This is not a job-rotation...
'Catastrophe' Overheated
Again newspapers and television are packed with stories of environmental degradation, extreme weather and global warming. Consider last year's...
New way of building construction deals
The Federal Government's new construction industry, industrial relations legislation tends to reinforce a view that for workplace reform to occur...