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Planning adds to high costs
In July, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is due to report on grocery prices. Groceries comprise about a fifth of the family...
Planning laws rob consumers
Imagine a world in which the government outlawed your business competitors. You wouldn't have to worry about pesky things like keeping your...
The regiments of left and right now march to market
The left has lost. So say the left! This is not a point-scoring statement from someone from the right but the words of the people from the...
Watchdog misses chain reactions
The ACCC's inquiry into grocery prices illustrates the danger of imposing an overstaffed and overzealous government agency on an industry. There...
Not fascist at all
Shane Cahill's cheap attempt to brand the war-time Institute of Public Affairs as sympathetic to Japanese fascism ('This fascist mob', Overland,...
Who will cut the apron strings of government?
Kevin Rudd's vision for the country is now starting to emerge. It's nothing if not ambitious. He has promised to change our health system, our...
Conspiracy theory lunacy
The September 11 terrorist attacks were arguably the most watched event in human history. As a result, the facts about what happened seem...
Don't strangle communications networks
The marriage of politics and commerce is a destructive one. This is a lesson the Labor Party should be learning as it tries to work with the...
Don't close the door on our envied bar culture
Premier John Brumby probably wasn't expecting a backlash this big. Nearly 30,000 distressed drinkers have signed just one of the many Facebook...
Federal Budget mainly smoke and mirrors
Most of the gotta-get-a-life types who have examined the details of this year's Federal Budget were relieved. There were few new spending and...