People & associates
Alan Moran
Labor's wrong direction on reform
Julia Gillard told us last week why it is imperative to get the legislative program started. Unfortunately. absent from this was the need to put...
Shoppers better off if building red tape is cut
Planning Minister Justin Madden, on the advice of a committee he had established, rejected Woolworths' application to build a new hardware store in...
Big new tax? Kloppers can't be serious
IT was almost as if BHP Billiton's Marius Kloppers had already cleared with the government the speech he delivered in favour of a carbon tax. The...
What can we expect from our government?
While independents, Greens and Australian Democrats have played major roles in the Senate, the normal position of independents in the lower House...
As a business manager, Victoria doesn't hold water
Rain is falling in Victoria and water restrictions are being relaxed. How well has the Government performed as a business manager in...
Gillard likely to cop expansive Green agenda
Julia Gillard says that neither party has convinced Australia that it alone has won the right to govern and that "our political processes must...
Surely the election can afford debate on housing
As a concern among the electorate, housing affordability ranks above industrial relations, interest rates and asylum seekers. But until yesterday,...
Climate change almost invisible in the election campaign
Having been feted as the Great Moral Challenge and been the key factor behind the demise of Malcolm Turnbull, climate change policies are nearly...
Clunky approach to carbon reduction policies
Labor's wasteful and tokenistic "cash for clunkers" subsidy to scrap old cars is one of the few carbon emission reduction policy announcements this...
Renewable energy comes at exorbitant price
Coal-powered electricity generators and abundant coal supplies bring Victoria the world's cheapest electricity. This will change, partly because of...