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It's not about 'cranks', it's about tax rises and high spending
You wouldn't know it from the media coverage, but Wayne Swan's foray into US politics showed a profound misreading of Washington's economic debate...
Should the government restrict super-sizing junk food?
There's a lot of competition for the most stupid Nanny State proposal. But if forced to choose, plans to restrict serving sizes would have to take...
Get rid of secret deals
There's a simple way to stop governments and businesses going to court to keep their deals between each other secret. This week The Australian...
Romney had a point: shift balance from takers to makers
The recent statement by United states presidential candidate Mitt Romney that 47 per cent of Americans is dependent on government has created a...
Free speech? 'Whatevs,' says the United Nations
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon last week expressed concern about free speech because sometimes it can be "used to provoke or humiliate." God...
A crackdown on illegal immigrants. Interested? Anyone?
Last week Immigration Minister Chris Bowen introduced a bill into parliament. Had we been any other country on the planet this would have been...
Only real threat is to our online privacy
Imagine if Australia Post opened and read all your mail. There would be outrage. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has given her support to a proposal...
McMansions a sign of our country's wealth, not a lack of taste
Is there any more snobbish word in the Australian vocabulary than ''McMansion''? This nasty term describes the big, new houses out in suburbs with...
Stagnation flows from our banana republic laws
Australia has thrived by achieving high productivity levels, especially in our agricultural and mining industries. Commercial fishing has had a...
Foreign policy rates barely a mention as US turns inward
Only the spectacle of anti-American violence across the Middle East and beyond has made foreign policy a live issue in the race to the White House....