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One failure doesn't mean corporate child care can't be as simple as ABC

Economics & Deregulation | | Julie Novak
The Age 2nd December, 2008

Two years ago ABC Learning Centres seemed an unstoppable force as it grew to become the largest private child-care provider in the world. It had a...

Neutering the net is about repression, not protection

Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit and Nanny State | | Chris Berg
The Age 30th November, 2008

It seems like only yesterday that the country was prosperous and the Labor Party was going to make everyone's internet faster. But now the Federal...

Free choice the key to get more women on board

Economics & Deregulation and Ideas & Liberty | | Julie Novak
The Courier Mail 17th November, 2008

Federal Government studies released recently have claimed that the glass ceiling is bearing down on Australian working women, crushing their career...

Why greed's just too small a word to hang a crisis on

Economics & Deregulation | | Chris Berg
The Age 12th October, 2008

Pundits, letter writers, talk-back radio callers, John McCain and the Prime Minister all agree: It Woz Greed Wot Done It. In a speech in Sydney...

Get off the turps - idiots are the problem, not alcohol

Governance & Service Provision and Nanny State | | Chris Berg
The Age 14th September, 2008

Hardly a weekend goes by without a heavily publicised nightclub bashing or brawl plastered all over the newspapers. Melbourne seems to have...

Don't close the door on our envied bar culture

Ideas & Liberty and Nanny State | | Chris Berg
The Age 18th May, 2008

Premier John Brumby probably wasn't expecting a backlash this big. Nearly 30,000 distressed drinkers have signed just one of the many Facebook...

Politicians find religion a cross to bear

| John Roskam
The Age 2nd January, 2008

Over these Christmas holidays it seems as though religious leaders have been happy to talk about anything other than religion. In Australia,...

Xmas buying is full of spirit

Ideas & Liberty | | Chris Berg
The Age 23rd December, 2007

Before the three wise men went to visit Jesus at his birth, they first had to visit the gold, frankincense and myrrh traders. Retailers have been...

Culture wars are good for society

| John Roskam
The Age 19th December, 2007

Since it lost the federal election, the Liberal Party has had lots of advice -- much of it useless or self-interested. One of the more useless...

Stars in the Net sky

| Chris Berg
The Age 16th December, 2007

Is the internet making us stupid? That, at least, is the conclusion of Doris Lessing, this year's winner of the Nobel prize for literature. In her...