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Schools should be free to teach what they want
Most people seem to have missed the point about the national curriculum. The opposition certainly has. If the national curriculum is as bad as...
Financially green behind the ears
With the latest state polls revealing a surge in Green support, it is appropriate to subject their election promises to analysis befitting of the...
The politics of climate change is changing
When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many contributors to this site do, that anthropogenic global warming is destroying the...
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...
Not another transport plan
Every time New South Wales changes Premiers, it also changes Transport Plans. The latest one, recently announced by Premier Kristina Keneally, has...
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...