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Healthy living... in a nanny state
If there was one area of human existence which should be left to individual choice, you'd think it would be what we eat. So the National Preventive...
An illusion of safety
Here's a way to make driving safer: make it riskier. A German safety expert recommends we raise speed limits on our roads, not lower them. Ulrich...
Taking liberties
It should be clear by now that the Rudd government is not a government full of civil libertarians. Sure, there's less to the government's intention...
Privacy pose shows the minister is off his Facebook
It must have felt nice for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy not to be the bad guy. Just for a little while. At a Senate estimates hearing...
Plain packaging ploy likely to go up in smoke
Turning public debate from the failed emissions trading scheme to universally despised tobacco emissions is a media masterstroke from Kevin Rudd,...
Fat lot of good campaign against junk food is doing
The debate over obesity and public health is usually black and white. It's obvious who the bad guys are: junk food peddlers. But last year,...
Libertarians spoke out when state began to meddle
Ross Gittins seems to think libertarians have quietly watched as the Rudd government has bungled its response to the north Atlantic banking crisis...
Terror laid bare
Flying is awful - and it looks like it's only going to get worse. The actual "flying" part can be all right if you get one of those exotic personal...
Activist left's global agenda
The great divergence between classical liberals and their philosophical opponents has always been the primacy placed on freedom in people's lives...
The Tote faces the music
The closure of iconic rock venue The Tote provoked a groundswell of opposition to Victorian Premier John Brumby's draconian liquor licensing laws....