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John Roskam
Gillard's two universes
Car makers are not the worst bastion of old-style protectionism, John Roskam argues - universities are, and Labor panders to them. Francis Scott...
Rudd reveals core beliefs
The quality of self-awareness is usually visited on politicians only upon their retirement. It is with the publication of memoirs and diaries after...
Co-operative deferralism
Co-operative federalism sounds good in theory. In theory, after the election of the Rudd government Australia was going to have lots of cooperative...
Burden of a carbon tax
A carbon tax in the form of an emissions trading scheme (ETS) could be the best thing to happen to corporate Australia since the invention of...
Tough decisions? Give me a break
Kevin Rudd reckons the reason for the swing against Labor at the Gippsland byelection was because he has made some "tough decisions". If this is...
A good word for the ATO
The Tax Office is labouring to be helpful under a pile of complex legislation, writes John Roskam. The Australian Taxation Office can be blamed for...
Free trade will help the poor
TV chef Gordon Ramsay is like many other celebrities. They think that because they can sing or dance, or kick a football, or, in Ramsay's case,...
Home truths for Henry
Facta non verba is a Latin motto that translates as ''deeds not words''. It should be the motto of the federal Treasury for the rest of Kevin...
Driving in two directions on fuel
Two things stand out about the Rudd era of Australian politics. First, there is the Prime Minister's love of slogans - "working families" and...
Planning laws rob consumers
Imagine a world in which the government outlawed your business competitors. You wouldn't have to worry about pesky things like keeping your...