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A patent Copenhagen solution
India's negotiating position on intellectual property (IP) at the Copenhagen climate change conference might be good politics, but it's unlikely to...
Copenhagen Summit And World Trade
Any agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference is likely to amplify the ‘green' threat to wealth-creating free trade that is...
Not the Voice to Sell Our Values
In last Thursday's Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture, ABC managing director Mark Scott called for a significant expansion of the ABC as a global media...
Death of author unlikely
The biggest barrier to the Australian book industry's success won't be the demise of parallel import restrictions; it'll be the cultural cringe...
Readers pay a price for authors' greed
The campaign by wealthy Australian authors such as Tim Winton and Bryce Courtenay against reforms that would enable Australians to buy cheaper...
Australian authors on Clown Street over book prices
Tim Winton is the master of fiction. But his latest tirades prove he doesn't understand when reality kicks in. Last week Winton won a fourth Miles...
Spread the flu virus to stop it
The death toll from swine flu is mounting. But in one respect we can count ourselves lucky: The virus originated in Mexico, a country that quickly...