People & associates
Chris Berg
Another year, another failed climate summit
The 49-page agreement produced at the Rio+20 Earth Summit is unmitigated junk. I'm not going out on a limb here. It's one of those rare universally...
Just be grateful airlines can feed you at all
Nobody, it seems, is happy with the food served on planes. But it may surprise you to learn that it's our own fault. The customer is to blame....
Should governments protect independent journalism?
We already subsidise journalism heavily. The ABC's budget for 2011-12 was $995 million. SBS got $223 million in the same period. And Parliament has...
The farce that is the Leveson inquiry
On October 7, 2009, News International chief Rebekah Brooks sent opposition leader David Cameron a text message: I am so rooting for you tomorrow...
Happy birthday to free market liberalism
This year what we think of as modern free market liberalism turns 50. We can thank the 1962 book by the American economists James Buchanan and...
Politics of contradiction mean democracy for me, but not for thee
The scepticism of voters is troubling but not surprising. Only 60 per cent of Australians think democracy is preferable to any other form of...
Remittances dominate aid yet remain unspoken
The underappreciated thread that ties the global economy together is remittances - the money sent by migrants back to their home countries....
Gillard plays the unedifying 'small Australia' card
It's obvious what Julia Gillard was doing when she claimed Enterprise Migration Agreements for mining projects would not favour foreign workers....
Obama beats Bush in assault on civil rights
America's security powers continue to grow. It's been fun for the left in Australia to fixate on the Republican candidates for the American...
Locking people away forever because ASIO reckons
It's a scandal that administrative decisions which result in indefinite detention are made outside judicial scrutiny. In his 1885 book An...