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Australia Will Survive the Greenback's Fall
Governments around the world currently are trying to respond to the declining value of the U.S. dollar. Several Asian countries have intervened in...
How Rudd Is Undoing The Aussie Miracle
As the world searches for new models to address the after-effects of the global financial crisis, Australia deserves a closer look. The country is...
Poor palmed off by a load of old monkeys
In a choice between the life of a cute, fuzzy orang-utan and tighter food labelling regulations, who'd be surprised if the orang-utan won? It's...
Don't demonise the food industry for causing obesity
It is easy to blame big business for a change we don't like. So Rosemary Stanton's attempt in Crikey to blame the Australian Food and Grocery...
Government has lowered expectations on labour market success
The cash rate is 3.5% right now. The market is expecting it to rise to 5% by next November. That is six 25 basis point increases over the next...
Big Government: A Love Story
Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story "takes aim" at the capitalist system, as a few dozen supportive reviewers have mindlessly written. But...
Carbon tax will light a slow fuse
A form of carbon tax such as the emissions trading scheme cannot reduce global emissions unless there is agreement for a similar level of tax...
Vegetarians' meat tax plan just a load of hot air
This week British economist Lord Stern called for the world to get off beef and on to broccoli: go vegetarian for the planet. Methane - burped,...