People & associates
Alan Moran
Power Without Reason
The Kyoto climate control agreement is back in the news. Under this agreement, countries tentatively agreed to limit emissions of greenhouse gases...
Is the National Broadcaster Biased or Just Doing its Job?
The ABC's is progressively removing itself from mainstream Australian opinion. The cooperative that ruins 'Auntie' largely defines itself by being...
LIES and Statistics
Following the Statistician's release of the 2001 trade union membership, ACTU President Sharan Burrow declared, "The long term trend of declining...
Bashing via the Courts
The insurance industry is getting very picky over what it will insure. And it's all down to lawyers, judges and individuals treating business as a...
Polish on a Rough Trade
Currently, the big trade news is the US decision to put barriers on steel imports. As a major steel producer at BHP's Westernport plant, Victoria...
Can development be environmentally sustainable?
Sustainable development as a term came into its own with the 1987 publication of the Brundtland Report. Brundtland herself was a Norwegian...
Power to the People
On 13 January of this year, the Victorian Government introduced Full Retail Competition for electricity. Household customers became free to seek...
Fox-Lew Bid Could Present Wider Dangers to IR Reform
The Fox-Lew proposals for Ansett would take us forward to the past. There was a time when each Australian manufacturing industry was granted a...
Don't Meddle in Petrol
As every car owner knows, the price of petrol fluctuates. In metropolitan areas the price moves between about 85 and 99 cents per litre. Those in...
Too Much Energy Going into Regulations
No serious authority can deny the price and performance improvement that has taken place in Australia's electricity and gas industries. Since its...