People & associates
Chris Berg
Natural disasters give economic growth a moral dimension
Between 1990 and 2002, globally 815,077 people were killed by 4,300 natural disasters. Since then, an earthquake in Bam, Iran in 2003 took 26,000...
Hands up if you're in favour of cheap milk ... anyone?
One would be forgiven this week for assuming low prices are bad. Coles's January decision to sell house-brand milk for $1 a litre was followed by...
In a truly globalised world, immigration must be free
Four Corners last week told the story of Landina, a three-month-old girl lifted from the ruins of a Haitian hospital and evacuated to the United...
Selling out the Koran
First Tunisia, then Egypt, and now Libya: Muammar Gaddafi looks set to join the cohort of fallen Middle East dictators. And about time too. Under...
Adapt to survive
The Labor party once made great fun of John Howard's distinction between core and non-core promises. Julia Gillard has now added to that taxonomy:...
Artificial markets: miles behind the real deal
The Federal Government and its faithful Opposition are falling over each other to say their own climate policy is market friendly. On Lateline last...
Anti-dumping laws: in whose interest?
It's hard to top deposing a Prime Minister. But having the management of Rio Tinto replaced by monkeys (as Australian Worker's Union boss Paul...
Striving for political and economic freedom
It was no surprise that the Economic Freedom of the Arab World Report was launched in Cairo last year. Egypt has been at the centre of economic...
Why we're a nation of homebodies
Most Australians think of themselves as highly mobile. We're a nation of immigrants, after all. The phrases ''sea change'' and ''tree change'' are...
Beyond the chaos, federalism lives on
The critics of political theatre suggest Anna Bligh has shown successful leadership during the Queensland floods and Cyclone Yasi. Julia Gillard's...