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Voting for the leader is the next step for Liberal reform
In 2007, the Australian Labor Party successfully created a narrative that the Howard government had lost touch with working Australians. Issues such as climate change and industrial relations reinforced this narrative. During the campaign, this...
The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State: Ideology, accountability and the mega-regulators
Regulation is a political activity. It sets the framework for the market economy by defining the boundaries between private action and government action. Yet those boundaries are not fixed. Australian governments are growing the body of regulation...
Corporate research and development beyond the reach of even the federal Innovation Minister
Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Minister Kim Carr has promised that the Labor government will ‘review' the R&D tax concessions. One of the early decisions of the Howard government was to reduce the 150 per cent R&D...
History as if policy mattered
How not to win government
History as if policy mattered
On tariffs and immigration, party reputations don't match their records.
In defence of David Cameron
How the Tories have gotten past soul searching in opposition