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Stop splurge now to avoid going from Gatsby to Grapes of Wrath
The latest data coming out of the US shows an economy lethargically sidestepping towards stagnation. The same debt-loaded moribund economic picture...
US surveillance scandal just the tip of the iceberg
More than a decade after the September 11 attacks, the US is having a debate about its monstrous national security apparatus. Finally. In that...
Security more than a matter of trust
Barack Obama could end up doing more for the cause of small government than Adam Smith, Friedrich Hayek and the Tea Party put together. Last week's...
Taxi changes put Victoria back at front of state reform pack
The Victorian Government's recently announced taxi reforms are an encouraging sign that Australian state governments can still initiate significant...
Taxes on carbon too drastic and too soon
Julia Gillard's loss of voter confidence was massively compounded by her reneging on the pledge that "there will be no carbon tax under a...
Big implications in council vote
The Federal Government is pitching its case for local government recognition in the Australian Constitution as "small" and "modest" change. The...
Labor's end: out with the old, in with the renewed
Let's say Rudd returns to the prime ministership - which seems possible - and then goes on to win the next election - a big ask, but not entirely...
Tax competition? Bring. It. On.
In his latest contribution to The Drum, former journalist at The Australian newspaper, Mike Steketee, admonished the use of tax havens by...
At risk of an asylum seeker underclass
A reductio ad absurdum is an argumentative ploy to show a proposition is wrong by taking it to its most absurd extreme. Australia's...
Ravenous monsters of the deep have woken
The tax leviathan is always hungry, but now it is deep in debt its appetite for taxes has reached a fever pitch in almost every developed economy....