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Murray Logging Ban No Help to Red Gums
Last week the New South National Parks Association launched a legal challenge to the logging of state forests along the Murray River. It claims the...
A Government with no message
The issue of whether John Howard or someone else leads the Coalition to the election is a distraction. Voter disaffection with the Federal...
Impact statements drag us through the mill
Scientists and ambitious enviro-bureaucrats have sucked governments into insisting upon "environmental impact statements" (EIS) for an expanding...
Apple isle panacea a fantasy
According to tennis legend John Newcombe, "there can be no doubt that tourism is the future for Tasmania". He says that's why he joined the protest...
Australia top 10 in the world for economic freedom
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) participates in an annual assessment of economies compiled by Canada's Fraser Institute. Called the Economic...
The dangers of a pulp mill celebrity status
It seems a distant memory but new projects once excited emotions of support. People tended to recognise them as bringing greater wealth, better...
Working on relationship reform
As opinion polls are consistently indicating a Labor win at the federal election, it's worthwhile contemplating workplace relations under a Rudd...
Dealing with that $30,000 phone bill... without regulation
There is a "mounting dossier" of complaints to communications regulators concerning unexpectedly high mobile phone bills, reports the Australian...
Society rhetoric just a pulp fiction
In politics, words are designed to obscure. For instance, Kevin Rudd has been telling business groups all week that it is Labor's job to govern for...
Time for the single wheat desk to go
Labor used to make a lot of noise about the single desk for wheat exports. That was back in the days of the Cole Enquiry into the illegal kickbacks...