People & associates
Alan Moran
Who's afraid of the big bad GM?
Unlike their American and Asian competitors, Australian farmers face major barriers if they want to grow genetically modified (GM) foods. GM uses...
Pulling plug on electricity means NSW people lose out
The parliamentary impasse between the Premier and the opposition over whether the electricity industry sale should be examined reignites an issue...
Uncertainty the villain, not the power sales process
The parliamentary impasse between New South Wales Premier Kristina Keneally and the opposition over whether the electricity industry sale should be...
Business regulation holding back growth
The China boom has continued to lift Australian income levels via mining demand and this has been supplemented by general increases in primary...
Murray-Darling irrigation and agricultural production are critical
Under Labor, Victorian water policy had an urban-orientation. Its focus was on reducing city usage and providing more water to Melbourne without...
Bank on basin's resilience
John Quiggin argues that taxpayers should buy 34 per cent of the water now used by Murray-Darling basin irrigators and add this to the 50 per cent...
Retreat now, before the cost soars
Prime Minister Julia Gillard is strongly promoting a carbon tax to combat what she calls an "externality warming the planet". The government's army...
Houston, we have a housing problem
Adding up everything we own, the Government Statistician reckons Australian families are worth $5800 billion. That's more than five times as much...
DCC briefing: a farrago of spin, obfuscation and exaggeration
Flush from its near death experience following the hung parliament, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency (DCC) has published its...
Putting a price on climate change policy
The Government has initiated a new saga in addressing greenhouse gases policy options. It has set up a parliamentary committee with membership...