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Drivers deserve and need better roads
A leaked version of Melbourne's latest draft transport plan placed its focus on "congestion-busting". One suggestion was to reduce congestion by...
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...
Easier zoning would deflate home prices
Australia has 11 of the world's 25 least affordable cities for housing. The American consultancy Demographia this month released data of 272 urban...
Folly of focusing on Joyce
The Canberra press gallery has peculiar priorities. This week we've found out that the national broadband network hired a Labor mate to a $450,000...
In for a penny, in for a pound and the splurge goes on
The Federal Government's fiscal response to last year's global financial crisis reveals the problems posed by adopting outmoded approaches to...
The wisdom of the ages
The release of the latest Intergenerational Report shows in detail why the Federal Government's policies are in desperate need of an overhaul....
Take the politics out of commerce, not vice versa
Last week the Australian Electoral Commission published its latest donation figures for political parties. Donations are down from last year....
Our Nixonian PM
‘At one time or another, he had espoused almost every worthy principle, often repeatedly,' Newsweek once observed of Richard Nixon....
ABC 24-hour news plan will cripple diversity
The announcement by ABC managing director Mark Scott of a new 24-hour, seven-day-a-week television news channel will harm Australia's media...