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Danger of new thickets of gas regulation
Peter Roberts' "Globalised gas pricing has local costs" (Talking Point, January 30) applauds the commonwealth's National Energy Security...
Yet another flipping flop
Credibility is draining away from Julia Gillard as if from an open wound. The effect of a year of mounting mistrust in the nation over the carbon...
GOP's first-rate foreign policy chaos
Distinguished US commentator Walter Lippmann once wrote what is arguably the single most important sentence written on foreign policy: "Without the...
The true origins of anti-paternalism
Opposition to government paternalism wasn't always a conservative or libertarian thing. Indeed, the use of the word "nanny" to describe state...
Lost in translation
As school returns for 2012, there are now more students learning Latin than Chinese. Once we take out Chinese-born students and those who speak...
Has politics finally moved beyond the personal?
The Libertarian James Paterson Politcians tax us too much, spend our money wastefully and regulate our lives. So why do we spend so much time...
Labor's Texta moment
It's only January but we've already got the quote of the year. "We will be getting the butcher paper and Textas out and solving the...
The dramatic collapse of trust in government
The real story of the financial crisis isn't bank bonuses, the impending collapse of the Eurozone, or the Occupy movement. It is how, in every...
Feminism: a shadow of its former self
Putting aside her tendency to namedrop personalities and organisations that the Australian left loathe the most, such as Sarah Palin and the...
Gingrich presses the right buttons
Winston Churchill once said of politics that it's "almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in...