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The maintenance of a corporate welfare state comes at a hefty long-term price
The latest edition of the Institute of Public Affairs state business tax study, showing South Australia as the highest taxing state for this year,...
It's the Poor Who'll Pay for Copenhagen's Circus
More people attend UN conferences than make a meaningful contribution, but even by UN standards delegates are describing the Copenhagen climate...
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...
Interference getting worse instead of better
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a month without new government initiatives? This week saw a meeting in Brisbane of the Council of Australian...
Completely plucked and hissing loudly
The current federal-state-local tax review, chaired by commonwealth treasury secretary Ken Henry, is close to completing a blueprint to reform...
Let he who is without climate sin...
Barry Jones accuses climate sceptics of using ad hominem attacks yet embarks on the most remarkable such tactics himself. Out-hyping all who came...