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Time for tough decisions on health
As Victorians now know, the state has a world-class health system. We know because we are told daily by Premier Steve Bracks that it is so. The...
Controlling media madness
In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the key functions of government are performed by The Ministry of Truth. The ministry provides all...
Time to Lift Unhelpful GM Crop Ban
A new report from the Federal Government's Agriculture and Food Policy Reference Group titled Creating Our Future: Agriculture and food policy for...
Empire-building ACCC must be reined in
Proceeding through the parliament is an amendment to the national access regime, which falls under the Trade Practices Act. This gives expression...
Doing business in NSW
You'd think that if you acted on government instructions and something went wrong that you wouldn't be in trouble with authorities. For example if...
They're here to help you (oh yeah)
One of the great lessons of life is to be sceptical of things and people that claim to know what is best for you and seek to force you to do it....
Car users pay twice as much in taxes as governments spend on roads
The public transport debate in these pages risks becoming dominated by crank policy prescriptions that override any sense of choice by transport...
Tangled web of federal law
Not so long ago, premiers' conferences were shouting matches between state leaders who wanted more money and prime ministers who refused to give it...
Death at work: who should be blamed?
Anyone involved in running a business needs to be aware of the tug of war over work safety laws. Whether you are an employee, manager, executive or...
Halters on Google for now
Decisions by Microsoft and Google to obey repressive Chinese censorship in order to expand into the Chinese market do not represent a "surrender"...