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Lower taxes encourage investment, expansion and employment
Tax competition between the states seems to be a dirty word among some economists. It is argued that a bidding war between states to lower tax...
These are taxing times for NSW business
It is almost certain that the NSW Government will mark 2008 as a year best forgotten. The state witnessed political instability at the top, with...
Can Spring Street deliver on transport plan?
In the first 24 hours after its release, the Victorian Transport Plan received generally positive coverage. However, the combination of a bad week...
Dreaming of a different kind of White Paper
With a pre-Christmas White Paper, the Federal Government transformed the global warming debate's focus into the introduction of a comprehensive new...
Big business should be allowed to fail
Across the developed world we are witnessing an outbreak of bailout mania by governments. In the U.S. and Europe, governments have injected...
Ignore meaningless public health studies? I'll drink to that
Before you dig into your next serve of glistening Christmas ham, rich gravy and potatoes drenched in baked fat, and before you chug another glass...
Spend cure the wrong advice for us
Kevin Rudd's announcement that he would inject a further $4.7 billion of infrastructure funding into the Australian economy brings the Federal...
Students are not cogs in a machine
The Bradley review into Australian Higher Education does not talk enough about students. The word ‘‘student'' appears many times, but...
Radical reform needed to clear up the telco mess
Telstra's exclusion from the bidding process for a national broadband network reinforces how much of a fiasco Australian telecommunications policy...
Employers could be lost in dark legal tunnels
Substantial commentary on the Fair Work Bill is now on the public record. Lines of division have emerged, expressed by key players in the public...