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Stimulus over, time for Rudd to rein in spending
The global financial crisis left vast holes in the world's major advanced economies. The US, Japan and European Union all ended 2009 with their...
No longer business as usual
The business lobby groups wanted a carbon emissions trading scheme - and now, thanks to Malcolm Turnbull, they have one. The Business Council of...
Do taxpayers really need to pay for the ABC any more?
Mark Latham is a fine example of the economic principle of specialisation and the division of labour. He is an excellent public intellectual but...
CRU emails reveal a worrying pattern of bad behaviour
Sometime last week the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia was hacked and materials stolen off its server. That...
Sinking benefits for landholders
Agriculture is the latest frontier on which skirmishes are taking place between protagonists on the need for an emissions trading scheme tax. The...
Writers have a right to get as rich as they can
The Rudd government was criticised by a near consensus of journalists and media commentators for its decision to leave in place parallel import...
Damned decision
The decision last week by Kevin Rudd, delivered by his environment minister Peter Garrett, to veto the proposed Traveston dam near Gympie...
Science of Climate Change is only a Small Part of the Discussion
Upon reading Clive Hamilton's comments in yesterday's Crikey (Hamilton: denying the coming climate Holocaust, Item 3), I opened up my copy of...
The meter's running as Canberra eyes states' powers
Reorganisation, wrote journalist Charlton Ogburn, is a wonderful way of creating the illusion of progress. So last week the Federal Government...
Reform lost in the rhetoric
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likes to talk about the tough decisions he's making and the reforms he's pushing through. And the Prime Minister is...