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Steel prices set to crash in week of horror for Australian mining boom
Australia's mining boom is in danger of ending before anyone anticipates, according to John Shipp, Director of the ANDEV/IPA North Australia Project. Mr Shipp's warning came in response to a report in MarketWatch.com that prices are set to crash...
End the Nanny State to win
As the polls plunge and a tide of sleaze threatens the government, Labor has responded with a storm of class war rhetoric unseen in decades. The prime minister has declared the next election will be about ‘whether you stand for the...
Nanny State Taxes: Soaking the Poor in 2012
Nanny State taxes raised $13 billion in 2010-11. This is greater than the combined revenue forecast of $11 billion to be collected from the government's Clean Energy Future Package (carbon tax) and the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (mining...
Australia's helmet law disaster
Australia is one of only two countries in the world with national all-age mandatory bicycle helmet laws (MHLs). Introduced by state and territory governments under threat of cuts to federal road funding in the early 1990s, the idea that it should...