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Depopulate and die of boredom
It must take a rather active imagination to look at a map of Australia and think that it is too full. Last week Sandra Kanck, the national...
Open convection
The Prime Minister's hint that the First Home Owners Grant might be axed has further intensified interest in a housing market which was already at...
Recession: Rudd's year of denial
The media, including The Australian Financial Review, were keen to ventilate material yesterday from the Prime Minister's office that Kevin Rudd...
ACCC in dangerous game of monopoly
The deregulation of wheat marketing last year should have meant the end of inefficient and anti-competitive practices. Yet one single desk has been...
We are a magnet for illegal immigrants
Harsh, insensitive, morally callous, dog-whistling, fear-mongering, whipping up xenophobia - all of these charges have been hurled at Sharman Stone...
In praise of our leading lady
Writing in Quadrant magazine many years ago, John Howard argued: ‘In fighting the battle of history with the Labor party, Liberals must...
Budget will put Brumby's efforts to the test
A quarter of a century ago governments throughout the Western world realised they were no good at running businesses. Government businesses tended...
Rule by nods and winks
The idea that anyone, let alone the government, has a clue about what the internet will look like in eight years' time is preposterous. In 2001 we...
Where's the breadth of vision in Rudd's broadband plan?
With the national broadband network (NBN), Kevin Rudd is stepping into the breach to save the Australian economy for the fifth time. Already we've...
How a joker sent Battman to the rescue
Confident that the Prime Minister can steer us out of the financial crisis? Don't be. Every policy announcement, every job-creation program, every...