People & associates
Alan Moran
Resource tax digging a hole for rich and poor
Terry McCrann named Labor's proposed Resource Super Profits Tax (RSPT) the Really Stupid Politicians Tax. RSPT also has a similar ring to British...
Climate change backflip could pay dividends
Having portrayed a global treaty to reduce carbon emissions as essential and inevitable, the Rudd Government has abruptly changed tack and now sees...
The murky business of sport
Lost in the endless vilification of Melbourne Storm is the notion of what salary capping means. It is an agreement by a group of businesses to...
Killing the goose that laid the golden Easter egg
Easter in Melbourne this year was a throwback to the 1970s, with closed shops and empty streets. Interstate visitors looking for bargains in the...
Climate change requiem
Under pressure from local election defeats, the French Government has abandoned its plans to introduce a carbon tax, having suddenly discovered it...
Public service needs to improve productivity
Public service departments' policy advice has become politicised under ALP governments. Increasingly, departments have hidden and distorted data to...
Treasuring impartiality
Treasury Secretary Ken Henry has offered support to the Government on climate change and water allocations. His Malthusian theme is that we are...
Heading backwards with power generation
Thirteen years ago the Kennett government's sale of Victoria's generators raised $10 billion (about $14 billion in today's money). Now, the NSW...
It's time misguided land starvation was stopped
With boom times returning to WA, the housing market is once again overheating. The median house price in Perth is now $512,000, according to the...
Price of a new house could be so much cheaper
A misdirected email from Justin Madden's office showed the Brumby Government at its manipulative worst. Following a planning review into the iconic...