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Keep ambitions modest
If Julia Gillard wins the election tomorrow you can only hope she'll lead a better administration than Kevin Rudd. If Tony Abbott wins you can only...
NBN: Crippling government regulation to blame
At the Labor Party launch on Monday, Julia Gillard made the National Broadband Network central to her pitch for reelection. And if you were...
Green protectionist folly
Under environmental disguises, industry and labor unions are running parallel campaigns with environmentalists seeking to roll back free trade. For...
Budget honesty charter corrupted
It's that time in the election campaign when it disintegrates into arguments about which party has been most careless ensuring their budget numbers...
'Small Australia' advocates are too pessimistic
Immigration is a great issue for sorting the optimists from the pessimists. Supporters of high immigration levels tend to believe that any problems...
Telling it like it is
Who knows, perhaps deposing your leader, saying your government had lost its way, then rushing to an election, wasn't the great idea it seemed at...
The New Green Protectionism
Export-dependent jobs in Asia are under threat by vested interests including unions and industry in developed countries advocating for trade...
Climate change almost invisible in the election campaign
Having been feted as the Great Moral Challenge and been the key factor behind the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, climate change policies are nearly...
Greens find growing up is hard to do
It's pretty certain the Greens will hold the balance of power in the Senate. But the prime position the Greens are about to hold in our democracy...
Clunky approach to carbon reduction policies
Labor's wasteful and tokenistic "cash for clunkers" subsidy to scrap old cars is one of the few carbon emission reduction policy announcements this...