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Hypocrisy at work in pay claims
Australian Workplace Agreements: how ironic that the individual workplace instruments unions spent a decade vehemently attacking should now become...
Solution needed to taxing issue
In recent weeks a land tax revolt has been brewing in Tasmania. Thousands of taxpayers have already lodged objections against strongly rising...
Sinking benefits for landholders
Agriculture is the latest frontier on which skirmishes are taking place between protagonists on the need for an emissions trading scheme tax. The...
Writers have a right to get as rich as they can
The Rudd government was criticised by a near consensus of journalists and media commentators for its decision to leave in place parallel import...
Damned decision
The decision last week by Kevin Rudd, delivered by his environment minister Peter Garrett, to veto the proposed Traveston dam near Gympie...
Science of Climate Change is only a Small Part of the Discussion
Upon reading Clive Hamilton's comments in yesterday's Crikey (Hamilton: denying the coming climate Holocaust, Item 3), I opened up my copy of...
The meter's running as Canberra eyes states' powers
Reorganisation, wrote journalist Charlton Ogburn, is a wonderful way of creating the illusion of progress. So last week the Federal Government...
Carbon emissions tax will choke economy
Greenhouse issues are dominating the economic debate. Most people want to protect the environment and have been told that the tax from the...
Reform lost in the rhetoric
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd likes to talk about the tough decisions he's making and the reforms he's pushing through. And the Prime Minister is...
Not the Voice to Sell Our Values
In last Thursday's Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture, ABC managing director Mark Scott called for a significant expansion of the ABC as a global media...