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Monster of debt to come
The spirit of Fabius Maximus seems to have taken hold of Kevin Rudd, who thinks that the way to economic salvation is to have a bigger government...
Generation Pepsi all froth and bubble on leadership
Demographers fantasise that we can all be split into distinctive groups: baby boomers, and generations X and Y. But there are other categories. The...
Crazy for Costello
Why the media fascination with Peter Costello? Why the obsession with virtually everything the former treasurer says and does these days - from his...
Solutions to perfect storm remain off the radar
A perfect storm has brought the disastrous economic tidings confronting the Australian economy. The US was the incubator of the present world...
PM mars nation's image
Australia needs more diplomats, says a report released this week by the Lowy Institute. It seems even Iceland has more overseas representatives...
Tighten spending for future
While the state's usual big-ticket items of health and education have had an airing in this election campaign, the economy has taken centre stage...
In praise of the liberal history warriors
Michelle Grattan calls them ‘militants'. Laurie Oakes labels them ‘hard-liners'. Matthew Franklin tells us they're ‘rigid...
We can't spend our way out of this one
The present economic downturn is widely recognised as being, at the very least, the most serious since the end of World War II. It is without...
More police, fewer daft ideas, the answer to city violence
Everybody has an idea how to fix the problem of "alcohol-fuelled" violence in the city. Last week, the Victorian Parliament tried another idea. It...
Textbook example is not grounded in earthy reality
The mistaken idea that there is some monopoly return to land ownership, geo-rent, that can be taxed with impunity simply won't die. It doesn't...