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Market lessons from the financial crisis
The lesson of the global financial crisis is that freer markets work and are vital to address our current local challenges. At the heart of the...
National curriculum: Labor's big failure
Less than two months after the Rudd government took power, education minister Julia Gillard announced her national curriculum, and announced it...
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...
Unmaking history
March may seem a little early to give an award for 2011 's silliest contribution to public debate in Australia, but surely, Monash University...
Myth of economic rent tax
Proposals to tax "economic rents" should be viewed with the utmost suspicion - the tax system is complicated enough with easy-to-understand tax...
National Curriculum gets our history badly wrong
Julia Gillard began the development and implementation of the national curriculum as minister for education in the somewhat happier days of the...