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Boon for the carbonocrats
The Gillard government's carbon tax package is a triumph for fiscal churn and bureaucracy over wealth creation and, for that matter, the...
Government's carbon skeleton
If there are any undisclosed details left for tomorrow's carbon tax announcement, taxpayers can be sure Australia's dirtiest secret, that the...
Gillard is no Hawke or Keating: in economic policy or market economics
Julia Gillard has adopted a polar extreme policy approach to the Hawke-Keating Governments. The ALP regained power in 1983 on the back of Bob...
A policy failure on three fronts ... and counting
The details of the Government's carbon tax have been released. Now the debate will move onto dissection of the gory details. For all the talk about...
Green plan hurts our reputation
Recent political opposition to foreign investment in mining will damage Australia's reputation as a safe haven for global capital. Before taking...
Giving up on national classification
There's an air of unreality about the Senate's review of the National Classification Scheme. Its final report was released in late June. On the...
Silencing dissent
It's not unusual for politicians to wish their opponents were less effective at spreading their message. But Australians should be extremely wary...
Opening door to an outlaw
China is a sleeping giant, Napoleon once warned. ''Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will move the world.'' The sleeping giant awoke to the...
The world today, foretold by Nixon
"When we see the world in which we are about to move, the United States no longer is in the position of complete pre-eminence or predominance [and]...
The science is not settled
Ian Chubb says the climate change debate is not about politics but science. Would that it were so. But it is not that simple, for there really are...