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Never mind the deficit, look at the spending
It must take a lot of confidence to blame the size of our new deficit on revenue loss due to the financial crisis just seconds after you have...
The road to hell is not paved with poker machines
Is there any form of entertainment more reviled than the pokies? Perhaps cockfighting, or rabbit hunting. Or Russian roulette. But then again,...
Bring Back the Thatcher Revolution
Thirty years ago this week, Margaret Thatcher led her Conservative Party to victory and set the scene for a wave of privatization and deregulation...
Borrowing big to fund promises
This week the Brumby Government handed down its second budget, and the Labor Government its 10th. Arguably the biggest talking point is the State...
Emissions retreat just so Napoleon
Despite the Government announcing it has backed away from early action to reduce carbon emissions, the Prime Minister's website continues to say,...
What goes up...
We've all heard Enoch Powell's observation: 'All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.'...
Government needs face saver more than CPRS
Canberra is planning to introduce new carbon taxes -- the "Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme" -- next year. This would double and eventually...
Turnbull's neo-liberal cross
Malcolm Turnbull has a big problem. No, it's not Peter Costello. Turnbull's problem is much larger than that. The problem for Turnbull is that in...
Spread the flu virus to stop it
The death toll from swine flu is mounting. But in one respect we can count ourselves lucky: The virus originated in Mexico, a country that quickly...