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Bolt is guilty, but the law is wrong - let the markets deal with racial discrimination
Political activists and bad legislation have combined to create the extraordinary situation where eligibility for awards and prizes can't be...
Bolt case highlights discriminatory act
The laws that allowed Andrew Bolt to be pursued through the courts for expressing an unfashionable opinion stifle freedom of speech and do not even...
Inside dirt on clean energy schemes: they don't work
If Julie Gillard isn't paying attention to what's happening in Washington DC right now, she should be. The first major scandal of the Obama...
One savings account we don't need
How could a Liberal support a sovereign wealth fund? A number of Liberal MPs have recently been publicly floating the idea of a sovereign wealth...
Flat tax leads to fairness
Giving the federal government more money would be like giving a cocaine addict more cocaine. That was the response of the highest-ranking...
Is the nostalgia surrounding the Button Steel Plan misguided?
In late August, BlueScope Steel announced it would close a blast furnace in Port Kembla and a hot strip mill in Hastings, southern Victoria, as...
Award is work of many men
Sir Isaac Newton, that great creature of the Scientific Revolution, once humbly declared, ``If I have seen further it is by standing on the...
Have the media watchers undermined press freedom?
It's not hard to see where the media inquiry is headed. The terms of reference were released last week. The inquiry will look at "the effectiveness...
Australians are working less and earning more
ACTU President Ged Kearney announced at the National Press Club the results of a poll of union members grandiosely labelled "The Census". And she...
Green bullies on the warpath
Deeply questionable tactics by environmental activists are taking away choices for consumers and business. The coupled collapse of trade barriers...