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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...
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...
Bracks report doesn't stray far from script
The final report of the Bracks review into Australia's automotive industry is not nearly as bad as it could have been. It recommends that the 10%...
It doesn't take much to tip the balance
For over 25 years, Australia has been buying more overseas than it sells. This excess spending is known as the balance of payments current...
Memo Starbucks: next time try selling ice to Eskimos
Globalisation has pulled millions of people in developing countries out of poverty. It has sent goods, services and people around the world,...
Climate mettle about to be tested
An emissions trading scheme has not even started but the Government's hostility to carbon emissions is already choking off the supply of...
Tax on energy use is best way to fight pollution
The emissions trading scheme (ETS) is advertised as being a "market solution to a market problem". This is a clever piece of rhetoric that has long...