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Louise Staley
Don't demonise the food industry for causing obesity
It is easy to blame big business for a change we don't like. So Rosemary Stanton's attempt in Crikey to blame the Australian Food and Grocery...
ACCC in dangerous game of monopoly
The deregulation of wheat marketing last year should have meant the end of inefficient and anti-competitive practices. Yet one single desk has been...
Case is overwhelming to extend shop hours
Already retail trading is troubling the new Barnett Government. Big supermarket chains have been quick to press for reform, arguing the current...
Wheat change is coming: time to help not hinder
Despite Labor's repeated reiteration that its election policy will be implemented, the Wheat Export Marketing Alliance continues to chase media...
Policy paralysis holds Perth back
Surely Perth is already highly liveable? In many ways this is true natural beauty, amenable climate and easy beach access deliver a great...
Time for the single wheat desk to go
Labor used to make a lot of noise about the single desk for wheat exports. That was back in the days of the Cole Enquiry into the illegal kickbacks...
Admit there's something in the genes
Biotechnology should be one of Victoria's great successes. The state garners more than 40 per cent of medical research grants and is home to 141...
Single desk monopoly has to go
Many Liberal MPs bemoan the failure of Malcolm Fraser's government to reform the Australian economy in the late 1970s. A key example is Fraser's...
Time for wheat to cut against the grain
Wheat exporting needs reform. Restricting exports to the discredited AWB is outmoded and against the national interest. The wheat regulator could...
Ingrained prejudice
Many Liberal MPs bemoan the failure of Malcolm Fraser's government to reform the Australian economy in the late 1970s. A key example is Fraser's...