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Planning laws pump up prices
How would Sydneysiders like it if instead of being $520,000, the average price of a new house were $180,000? The aspiring new home buyer in...
Labour reform vital to the boom in WA
Is it controversial to claim that WA's economic boom would not have been so huge if cutting edge labour reforms had not happened over the last...
State must keep the good times rolling
The past 10 years have been very good for Victorian businesses. Thanks in large part to the past reforms the state has jettisoned its rust bucket...
Let the buyers decide
Competition law will dominate the business news headlines in 2006. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's prosecution of Visy...
Save the Planet, Cut Down a Tree
The latest round of restrictions on broad-scale tree clearing in NSW and Queensland were driven in part by the Federal Government's global warming...
NSW work safety law undermining industry
New South Wales work safety laws are the worst in Australia and possibly the worst in the world. The laws create unsafe work cultures involving...
Farmers' solutions are in their own paddock
With the focus on the Howard Government's WorkChoices legislation, it could be easy to forget that labour issues are far broader than just...
Cool down on warming
In Sydney this week a meeting was held on climate change. Participants were from the six Asia-Pacific nations which together will account for 70...
Hot, But Not All Bad
Last year was the hottest on record in Australia, with temperatures about one degree Celsius warmer than the 1961-1990 average, which is the...
Con-fusion over going green
Australia and India are the only nations in the Asia-Pacific partnership without a significant nuclear energy capability Last year was the hottest...