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Modelling based on pure fantasy
Treasury modelling has placated many politicians' concerns about the adverse effects of a carbon emissions cap-and-trade tax. Treasury puts...
Meet the Nanny Spider: it wants to wrap you up in little rules and eat your life
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. So here's a bunch of things you can't do without council approval. You can't sit in a chair on your nature...
Rudd team intent on wronging lots of what's right
Treasury's refrain regarding the economic outlook is, "Not out of the woods yet." In a global setting, the International Monetary Fund, the...
ETS certainty a grey area
Apparently the reason why Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull need to agree on an emissions trading scheme in the next few weeks is because business...
Climate trumping needs of the poor
At one of those weird, celebrity-laden events they have every few months in New York, Hugh Jackman announced last week "climate change and poverty...
Pass the climate parcel
International negotiations are like a game of political pass the parcel and every government is desperate to ensure they're not holding up...
Fertile ground for litigation culture
In the three months since the Fair Work Act 2009 started, we are seeing the extent to which the bargaining environment has changed. Only a few...
Recovery comes at a cost
With an air of triumphalism, Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan recently declared that signs of a national economic recovery are due to their policy of more...
Rudd's stimulus furphy won't create jobs
The government has committed to spending many billions of dollars in stimulating the economy. An important issue is how we evaluate the...
Alcohol is good - so let's drink to that
Australia's relationship with alcohol is ''calculated hedonism'', according to the latest of many reports into drinking commissioned by the federal...