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Myth of serving the public
On Monday, NSW Premier Morris Iemma announced that "NSW needs a plan". He promised to develop a plan to provide direction for the government and...
Workers lose in Beazley scheme
Kim Beazley's commitment to eliminate Australian workplace agreements (AWAs) threatens the essence of workplace reform over the past two decades....
Less salt, but a lot less groundwater, too
The Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC) recently awarded its National Salinity Prize to the Pyramid Creek salt interception and harvesting...
Market the massage, not media moguls
The release of submissions to Communications Minister Helen Coonan's media reform proposals merely confirm a few truisms about the debate over...
State unions are very different beasts
With the Federal Government pushing for a single, national industrial relations system, it's worth considering the different industrial relations...
Too early to damn Work Choices
Is the Howard government's model of individual work contracts immoral? Many say yes. They believe that individual work arrangements destroy the...
ACCC undermines its case
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel is telegraphing a greater willingness to allow mergers to proceed providing...
Renewed interest in the nuclear family
The Prime Minister introduced a new dimension to energy policy by re-opening the debate on nuclear energy. Energy policy is increasingly being...
The wrong way to change the culture
Keith Windschuttle's appointment to the ABC board is not the final victory of the conservatives in the culture wars. It is not, despite the faux...
Work safety injustice
Recently the NSW government announced proposals to changes to their work safety laws. They have made the correct move of eliminating presumption of...