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Rules distort energy market
The recent Council of Australian Governments meeting called for policies to promote greater competition in electricity, a coded call for retail...
Manufactured crisis
Australian manufacturing isn't in trouble, it's just obsolete in a richer, more modern country. Ford has announced a week-long production halt in...
China's stance could send climate policy up in smoke
Changes to China's climate change policy will make it even harder for political leaders to secure a new global deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions...
Banks to get a green sheen
Soon there will be something else to beat up the banks about. Politicians will have more than just interest rate rises, billion-dollar profits and...
Baby boomers retire on a reverse inheritance
If baby boomers want choice in their retirement, they should be prepared to spend their own money. Earlier this month, Germany's ruling Christian...
Reward welfare a recipe for entitlement culture
Joe Hockey has been badly verballed. His widely reported speech about Western entitlement culture, delivered in London last week, contains...
Should the media censor Anders Behring Breivik?
The government certainly shouldn't. If we value the principle of freedom of speech then it should not be illegal to air Breivik's trial. But that...
Keep Green policies out of business
The Greens' strategy to build a business constituency will be successful, at least among the Australian and multinational companies whose rent...
Sport as propaganda: Bahrain's vile Grand Prix
The relationship between international sporting events and repressive governments can be truly vile. The latest reminder of this is the decision by...
Housing affordability key to northern growth
Northern Australia is suffering a housing affordability crisis. But it doesn't need to be this way. Recent media reports confirm this crisis. It...