People & associates
Jim Hoggett
On Robert Malthus and Banning New Foods
Many people harbour a deep-seated fear of new technology particularly when it involves our food. The current ban on all new genetically modified...
Locking up parklands is blinkered approach
J. K. Galbraith famously said that the conventional wisdom is always wrong. For 50 years the conventional wisdom on national parks and conservation...
A Green Vote is a Vote for Economic Vandalism
John Quiggan claims that the Greens are not 'irrational kooks' but 'are defending rational, evidence-based policies against populism and...
Can't See the Trees for Law
Farmer Jim is thinking of felling one of the 20,000 trees on his property for fence posts, but he has a problem---he has used up his 30-tree (0.15...
Strident Demands Will Affect Our Savings
The Financial Services Reform Act is not a riveting read. It is not likely to supplant discussion of politics at the dinner table. This is a pity...
Labor Launches Telstra Into the Past
We all know people who are consistently wrong. We don't trust them with our wallet. Then there are people who maintain consistency as history...
Taxes---How to Cut the Cake Differently
'To tax and to please ... is not given to men' [Edmund Burke 1774] We all hate taxes. This is a healthy state of affairs. It is the only restraint...
Rejoice, For the Choice is Yours
In recent days, Tony Abbot has drawn down the predictable, intemperate responses for his startling revelation that even poor people exercise...