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June 2006

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Opportunity Squandered: How the States have wasted their reform bonus

IPA BACKGROUNDER | Mike Nahan

Since 2000, GST revenue distributed to the states has increased at an average annual rate of more than 9 per cent-a huge and unexpected gain. As a result, the states are awash with money at levels unanticipated by the architects of the new tax...

In Defence of More Freedom

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tony Parkinson

The wild-eyed diatribes of Irans Mahmoud Ahmadinejad register as extreme even by the hothouse standards of the Middle East.

Future use of unassigned television channels

SUBMISSION | Chris Berg

Australian spectrum policy is largely characterised by a 'command and control' approach to allocation. Such a top-down approach is ill-suited to managing the implementation and diffusion of technological innovations, nowhere more so than in the...

Meeting the Digital Challenge

SUBMISSION | Chris Berg

Relatively recent far-reaching technological changes in media content production and delivery have exacerbated the adverse efficiency effects of the regulation of the Australian media. The upshot has made it more urgent to implement a major...