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Greens' population policy no better than the others
Bob Brown didn't manage to get in the leaders' debate, to the annoyance of his supporters. In a way, that's a shame. Sure, the Greens treat...
Thank NSW Labor for small thinking
Western Sydney, we get it. Your state government is laughably incompetent. It's unable to build the infrastructure and supply the services needed...
Renewable energy comes at exorbitant price
Coal-powered electricity generators and abundant coal supplies bring Victoria the world's cheapest electricity. This will change, partly because of...
Business lacks courage
Six days into the federal election campaign and Work Choices has dominated the news on five of those days. We know all about Tony Abbott ducking...
Spending cuts in the obvious places
The government spends a lot of money on a lot of things. Not all of it wisely. It's easy to be careless when you're spending other people's cash....
Despite the right turn, Gillard is no Iron Lady
When Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election, conventional wisdom suggested Labor's victory would mark a political realignment in Australia. Not only did...
Rudd is gone, but he's still the focus
Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard agree: Kevin Rudd must not be allowed to win this election. The former prime minister will not be a big participant...
Resource rent tax is absurd as its predecessor
The resource super-profits tax is buried, the minerals resource rent tax is terminally sick. Treasury's estimate that the MRRT would reduce the...
Climate change: healthy debate not a health debate
Want the earth to be cooler? Unleash the psychologists. At least, that's the argument presented by one of the keynote speakers at the 2010...
How strange bedfellows make for better government
Something strange is happening in Britain. When the Conservative Party failed to get an outright majority in the May general election, it was...