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When does mission creep become censorship?
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is completely out of control. The corporate regulator is an independent government agency. It...
Defining investment in the federal budget
Language matters, and the Gillard Government is acutely aware of this as demonstrated by the manner in which it abuses it when discussing aspects...
If by a miracle Labor wins the poll, it must deal with the Treasurer
They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last...
Budget deflects attention away from constitutional change referendum
Tuesday's federal budget has been treated with the disdain it deserves. Probably the funniest part of the night was when the Treasurer, Wayne Swan,...
Surely PM is having a lend of us
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in promoting the case for Budget deficits, says, "Imagine a wage earner, John, employed in the same job throughout...
Labor's bid for local control
Last week Julia Gillard announced a referendum to amend the Constitution allowing the federal government to fund local government directly. The...
Lavish parental leave has nothing to do with need
There's an easy test to see if a politician is spouting nonsense: they use the word "productivity" a lot. Productivity is an old standby. It sounds...
Advocates of a nanny state assume we are all children
Nanny state critics understand that incremental attacks on our freedom to choose are single steps down a longer road to remove individual choice...
Regulating supermarkets does not checkout
The failure of the ACT's supermarket competition policy is further evidence that government cannot plan competitive markets. They have to evolve...
Aeroplane mobile switch-off ruled by fear of the unknown
Last week we learned that Mark Dreyfus, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Australia, was recently involved in "an incident" on an airplane....