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Labor always unravels prosperity
Parlous developments in the NSW government's finances are a timely reminder of the familiar Australian cycle of change. In its mini-budget...
Tough times call for tough measures
THIS time last year, the Reserve Bank was forecasting growth a tad lower than the previous year's 4 per cent. It now sees growth in June 2009 at...
Contrary to reports, our rail system is alright
For years, Paul Mees has been arguing that there is some overseas city whose public transport system Melbourne should be emulating, but in his...
NZ gets its ACT together
New Zealand's electoral system might be completely incomprehensible, but it does have some benefits. At the election last weekend, the ACT party,...
Coughing up for others' inefficiencies
When Infrastructure Australia is sorting through funding requests from the states there is a strong argument that it should reject any for...
Dont ditch cattle yet, science isnt settled
How many times have you heard it said, the science is settled, we will have catastrophic global warming unless we change our ways and reduce our...
Politics and the top cop
Being the Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police sounds like a terrible job. In the aftermath of Christine Nixon's announcement to step down as...
TPA
Letters by Michael Crouch (October 30), and Julian Tapp (October 31) argue that the Treasurer was justified in requiring BHP Billiton to share its...
The unseen art of political ventriloquism
At last month's launch of his book Churchill and Australia, Graham Freudenberg was genuinely shocked that some people were genuinely shocked...
Housing price pain a tale of many cities
Saturday morning is a prime time for Melbourne house auctions. Over the past few weeks fewer hands have responded to the auctioneers' calls. House...