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Fair pay will lead to unfair results
Two weeks ago the Fair Pay Commission awarded a 4.1 per cent pay increase to the 1.3 million workers who earn the minimum wage. While most...
No Doha deal better than a dud one
Free trade remains in Australia's best interests. This week trade ministers descended on Geneva for negotiations to try to break the deadlock in...
Co-operative deferralism
Co-operative federalism sounds good in theory. In theory, after the election of the Rudd government Australia was going to have lots of cooperative...
Wong rewriting history
Hottest 12 years in past 13? Wong's not even warm When Federal Climate Change and Water Minister, Penny Wong, released her Government's Green paper...
Drums are beating for Iemma
Of all Labor governments across Australia, NSW seems to be the one tearing itself apart. What's happening is critical to Labor nationally and to...
Connies a nostalgic symbol of lost community spirit
The proposal aired in last week's Sunday Age to reinstate conductors to Melbourne's trams was greeted with unsurprising enthusiasm. But the...
GST points the way for carbon tax
Ross Garnaut describes the dilemma of imposing a carbon tax on the trade-exposed emission-intensive industries as "truly dreadful problem". His...
Regulations retard home ownership
Housing issues are always news in Victoria. Now we have resident action groups opposing new apartment building in inner suburbs. Moonee Valley was...
Burden of a carbon tax
A carbon tax in the form of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) could be the best thing to happen to corporate Australia since the invention of...
Delusions of Grandeur in the Wake of Garnaut
Since the election of the Rudd Labor government last year, and now with the release of the Garnaut Climate Change Review's Draft Report last...