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Critics go overboard, voters unimpressed
"The electorate will render its judgement accordingly." John Howard's political hero, Robert Menzies, once said that if 12 people witnessed a car...
Bold reform is just a few risks away
During the past eight years the coalition government can claim some important successes. Financial management has been sound with the economy...
Who Controls Your Contract?
Workers of the Future
There has been a silent revolution going on in the business of work which is now beginning to gain voice. Workplace regulations have traditionally...
Forecast is for Hot Air and Guesswork
At last there has been some rain across the NSW grain belt. But what is the longer term forecast? On the 23rd June on ABC Television's 7.30 Report,...
What we have achieved and where the parties will lead us with energy policy
Though the notion of energy policy can be very broad, its commonly understood framework comprises first the policies governing the gas and...
Renew Drive for Growth
Nine years ago Australian Governments decided to collectively and systemically promote competition and markets under the banner of National...
Dry Land Meets World Demand
How does Australia---the driest inhabited continent on earth---manage to feed so much of the world? The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is...
The Strange Return of an Industrial Club
Early this month the Business Council of Australia released an analysis of the federal ALP's industrial-relations policy that concluded adverse...
David Kemp: a Liberal for all seasons
David Kemp's retirement from politics marks the end of a family tradition unique in Australia. In the 1940s his father, Charles, wrote the...