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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...
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...
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...
Australia's Future Fund: a complex beast of good and bad
Beneath the heat of current public debate there is little light being shed on some important policy issues. This week the story broke that the...
Liberty gets the chop
Where are our great public intellectuals on new threats to freedom of the press? Under the Howard government, there was a minor genre of books and...
Replay of Samson's fate
There's a touch of Samson-in-the temple about the Gillard government - it's a government that could bring itself down and everything around it. In...
The Government's costly mining mistake
The first mistake the Gillard Government made was on the mining tax. The Rudd government had come undone by an audacious tax grab and Gillard...
Communications regulation is a dog's breakfast
The way we regulate media and communications is a dog's breakfast. That judgment has been blindingly obvious for more than a decade now. But it has...