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Grand, but still no water in plan
Last week the Prime Minister, John Howard, announced a national plan for water security with a focus on irrigation in the Murray-Darling Basin and...
Reef may benefit from global warming
ON Friday in Paris the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will launch a new report, Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis,...
It's time for parents to pay fees to government schools
Today is the beginning of the 2007 school year, and as in previous years, the media is filled with stories about how supposedly "free" government...
ABC must put national values first
The ABC treats Australia like a bag of mixed lollies. The public broadcaster is strong on many key Australian values; others are discarded like a...
Reform that threatens our prosperity
Mineral exports, largely fuelling China's industrial expansion, have been vital to the health of the Australian economy. Almost all of Australia's...
Regulators a headache for market forces
Every year, Telstra must submit 162,000 pages of paperwork to regulators. It estimates that there are 500 public servants devoted to its...
Planning rules price more people out of housing market
Demographia, based in St Louis, has issued its third annual survey of housing affordability. The survey covers 159 cities in North America,...
Instinctive bias of its staff is not among ABC's virtues
Some truths are so self-evident that they are hardly worth debating. Yet one of these -- that a certain bias shapes news and current affairs...
Dobbing and the community
Australia is a nation founded by people who were dobbed in. Perhaps that's why one of the first rules we learn in life is not to dob in each other:...
The Government's courting of greens is starting to show
This week's rare power outage in Victoria and the fact that it was controlled quickly demonstrates the resilience of the electricity supply system...