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Get set for another year of growth and prosperity
The past year was another great one for business and the Victorian economy and the outlook is for a repeat performance in 2006. The international...
GST windfall inspires more spending
Has the GST been a success? It has now been five years since the GST was introduced as the principal part of Australia's New Tax System. While...
New challenge from left
During the 1960s, a delegation of French politicians visited Beijing and met the Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai. One of the Frenchmen asked the...
Putting a tax on our parks
The State Government is to introduce parking fees in Albert Park, the first such tax imposed on users of a park. Among the fine-sounding rhetoric...
A market soaked in controversy
Water restrictions in towns and cities around Australia make striking headlines. The latest proposal of Victoria's Bracks government is to spend $1...
Time to dump anti-dumping regime
The Commonwealth has recently established a red tape task force to eliminate many of the costly burdens that government regulation brings. There...
It's enough red tape to sink a ship
It is ironic that the Prime Minister has chosen Productivity Commission chairman Gary Banks to head his new red tape taskforce, when it has...
Make business, not war
Economic Freedom of the World: 2005 Annual Report Recent events across the Tasman Sea have done nothing to dispel Australia's sense of...
Forget about boosting Research and Development
As night follows day, no sooner has the Bureau of Statistics announced the latest business research and development performance measure 0.89 per...
Prosperity's deadly spiral
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?" "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time." "The dog did...