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Planning red tape the real culprit
A Malaysian-led consortium's proposal to rezone a new area for housing at Rockbank, near Caroline Springs, west of Melbourne, would bring hundreds...
Tentacles of central control need snipping
The Australian federal system is at a crossroads. It needs to be reinvigorated or it will become a costly vestige of a noble but failed experiment....
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...
The Net is anarchy: keep it that way
The internet, long seen as a neutral realm free of government interference, is now hot political property. Not surprisingly, therefore, both the...
Culture of conservatives' fear
If the debate over the Howard Government's work regulation changes were conducted on purely economic grounds, the Government would probably win the...
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...
Nuclear waste site in outback makes cents
The Northern Territory Chief Minister, Clare Martin, has said she will fight "tooth and nail" the building of even a small nuclear waste facility...
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...
Right must take fight to the universities
The state of Australian conservatism is, in a number of respects, probably the healthiest it has been for many decades. But in spite of the...
IR Reform: These are not radical changes
Prime Minister John Howard is a conservative, as is Industrial Relations Minister Kevin Andrews. They are against change for its own sake. They...