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City car levy is just another taxing burden
There are two basic tasks governments have historically been very good at - collecting taxes, and thinking of interesting new taxes to collect. So...
Sydney shuts the door on affordable average price
Australia is now at the top of the pack in terms of the shameful measure of housing affordability. House price collapses in Britain and California...
Attacking patents is a way to halt progress on climate accord
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012....
Tariffs, not patents, hurt low-carbon innovation
A hundred countries are meeting in Accra, Ghana, this week in negotiations for a new climate change agreement after the Kyoto Protocol expires in...
Throwing more money into the glove box
Mr Bracks must have considerable wisdom. He has examined the car manufacturing industry, had a damn good natter with its workers, managers and...
Case of the warm and fuzzy
Three claims have been repeated so often they are accepted as fact: global temperatures are rising, we have less rainfall and so water is becoming...
Wasting our tax dollars on symbolism
Australian policy makers have an obsession with motor cars. Australia, they say, should not only 'make things' - as Kevin Rudd so simply put it...
Gillard's two universes
Car makers are not the worst bastion of old-style protectionism, John Roskam argues - universities are, and Labor panders to them. Francis Scott...
Go Gorillas: Endangered Critters Fight Back
In between all the gloomy news about the global environment, it is nice to hear some good news every so often. Last week the humpback...
Battling green noise
"Beyond Petroleum" is a strange slogan for a company that sells mostly petrol. Is BP really that embarrassed by the 3.8 million barrels of oil they...