People & associates
Tim Wilson
Subsidies are unfair to the motor industry
Car industry workers need certainty and security about their future. That's why the Gillard Government should declare the current $5.4 billion in...
Labor's bid for local control
Last week Julia Gillard announced a referendum to amend the Constitution allowing the federal government to fund local government directly. The...
Advocates of a nanny state assume we are all children
Nanny state critics understand that incremental attacks on our freedom to choose are single steps down a longer road to remove individual choice...
Regulating supermarkets does not checkout
The failure of the ACT's supermarket competition policy is further evidence that government cannot plan competitive markets. They have to evolve...
Carbon market flaws evident
The collapse of the European carbon price exposes the structural flaws of the government's plan to cut greenhouse gases. A European Commission plan...
Selling out press for a bit of pork
The spotlight is on Bob Katter, Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott to see whether they'll sell out our universal human right to free speech for some...
Indifference to regulatory price rises a problem
To protect consumers the government should probe the ACCC's approach to competition before it starts regulating. In Monday's Australian Financial...
Fat chance scare tactics will trim us
In yesterday's Courier-Mail, a senior Queensland health bureaucrat proposed graphic health warning labels be put on sugary, fatty and salty foods...
We go above, beyond with emissions pledge
While increasing our carbon tax bill, at last December's climate change summit in Doha the Gillard government committed to cutting emissions by...
It's time to reveal car subsidies
Informed debate about government largesse is meaningful debate, especially when private corporate and political interests are involved. Yesterday...