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Privatisation gives power to consumers
The NSW government's 10-year march to electricity privatisation is finally under way. The state's retailers and generators are earmarked for sale....
GM release triumph for reason over green-wash
In an interesting post-election development, within a few days of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party storming home to win the federal election with a lot of...
It's not because they weren't 'liberal' enough that the Libs lost
In the wake of the Liberals' federal election loss there's been a mass of commentary suggesting that the party should be more "liberal". Yes -- the...
A loss for civilisation
According to my Oz-watching pals in Britain and the US, John Howard is not a failure but a victim of his own success. He made Australia safe for...
Fame game filling our need for celebrities
Australian soccer is salivating over the more than 80,000 people who turned up to Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Wednesday night and watched David...
State's water split remains a dam shame
Ideological aversion to dams in the state government's first bloom meant cancelling the proposed Mitchell Basin dam. The drought has meant the...