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No Balance in Water Negotiations
Some years ago an irrigator in the Macquarie Valley explained to me that they had been giving back water for years as part of negotiated and then...
Freedom to work: everyone's a winner
Proposals to restrict the weekly working hours of Australians reflect a confusion of moral principles, a disconnect from reality and a threat to...
Ideas summit? More like a Labor love-fest
Its difficult to be sceptical about Kevin Rudd's summit of Australia's "best and brightest". One of the Government's first announcements about the...
Melbourne's public transport is on a road to nowhere
The report of Sir Rod Eddington into Melbourne's transport needs has opened up all the predictable responses from pressure groups favouring public...
Come on, Aunty, time to work out where you're at
Management guru Peter Drucker famously asked the chief executive of General Electric two simple questions: "If you weren't in the business you're...
Fair taxes on mining leave rich legacy
Victoria was built on the back of the mining industry. Today the industry's contribution is more modest. It is dominated by brown coal mining and...
It's a gas on the gravy train
You can do a lot of damage with $10 billion. It can be used to build a lot of halls of fame and finance a lot of local community groups. In short,...
Global Warming Theories off The Boil
Professor Aynsley Kellow, the head of the School of Government at the University of Tasmania, recently released a book called 'Science and Public...