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Small voice with big ambitions
Climate change forecasts by scientists are having a dominant influence on policy throughout the world. Politicians and economists have popularised...
Bet your sweet bippee it's a crisis
The meltdown on Wall Street will hit all world economies. The cataclysm follows from bankers combining and repackaging mortgage and other debt to...
Chance for lucky Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull has an opportunity to seize the initiative against a deteriorating economic outlook, writes John Roskam. If there's such a thing...
Whale: It
It's free-range, organic and tastes like an exceptionally tender eye fillet, but it's unlikely to find its way onto the supermarket shelves in...
Get off the turps - idiots are the problem, not alcohol
Hardly a weekend goes by without a heavily publicised nightclub bashing or brawl plastered all over the newspapers. Melbourne seems to have...
A change is patently needed
Patents are a private property right designed to incentivise innovation. But the incentives that patents provide for pharmaceutical innovation have...
It's water torture as jobs evaporate
A great myth of government propaganda is that their activities create jobs. Water Minister Tim Holding recently used our money to commission...
Blame ETS on business
Two weeks ago the Business Council of Australia released a report on the impact of an emissions trading scheme (ETS). Fourteen companies in the...
Murray Water Demands from Downstream
South Australians live at the end of the long Murray River system and spend a lot of time fearing someone upstream will steal their water. As...
ABCC passes public interest test
The Australian Building and Construction Commission operates an oppressive kangaroo court. It victimizes innocent construction workers and...