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Opposition to coal seam gas doesn't hold water
New technology has allowed coal seam gas (CSG), previously known as the menacing cause of mine explosions, to become prominent as an energy source....
Convergence Review: complete, spectacular failure
The Convergence Review "has assembled what could be a workable model for regulating the converged media environment," said Greens Senator Scott...
How the Red Cross virtually lost the plot
As long as human beings have been creating fictional worlds, moralists have been denouncing their creations. But the news that the Red Cross might...
Should alcohol carry warnings?
Proposals for government-mandated health warnings on alcohol treat Australians as if they are too stupid to look after their own health, and are...
New technology and the call for censorship
The first recorded call for press censorship wasn't for reasons of politics, or heresy, or public morality. It was to police "quality". The...
Household electricity prices to rise, year on year
An agreement to try to reach a deal by 2015 on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is the bottom line of the past fortnight's...
Durban deal isolates Gillard
Durban's meek outcome doesn't bode well for international efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions or the sustainability of Australia's domestic...
Pursue productivity in order to slash the costs
Because businesses increasingly compete with international rivals, relatively small cost increases can force radical decisions. To survive against...
Baillieu needs to move on reform
Nobody is accusing the Baillieu Government of intemperate haste in rectifying the Bracks-Brumby era's unrestrained spending programs and regulatory...
Energy costs defy logic
In response to my Opinion article on September 8 on the costs of the carbon tax, the British High Commissioner (Letters, September 14) rejects the...