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Building bullies and Beazley beware
THE union fear campaign being run against the Howard Government's workplace changes is recognised as highly successful. It's apparently hurting the...
Opportunistic opposition
Randolph Churchill, the father of Winston, had a simple rule about how political parties out of power should operate. He said, "the duty of the...
Why Going Nuclear Looks Good
A recent poll of Australians indicates that 60 percent of Labor voters and nearly 40 percent of Coalition voters are against building a nuclear...
Claims on wrong track
Brian Buckley (The Age, Business, 7/6) chooses to misunderstand my points on transport. He claimed 55 per cent of New Yorkers were regular transit...
Watchdog barks up Telstra tree on our behalf
Ed Willett, the man in charge of telecommunications company regulation at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, at a conference on...
More reasons for travelling north
The two state budgets yesterday provide further incentives for families to pull up stumps in NSW and go north to warm, welcoming and solvent...
Bracks' vision still hooked on debt
The Bracks Government presents itself as a modern Labor government -- fiscally responsible, family focused and reforming. While its intentions and...
Middle-class welfare won't build fairer Victoria
The biggest mistake in modern Australian politics is to think that state governments don't matter any more. With the Federal Government collecting...
Redistribution of power
Karl Marx may have been a communist but he was right about a few things. He said the political system of a society reflected its economic...
Little Real Evidence for Salinity Crisis
Six years ago the National Farmers Federation (NFF) and the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) joined forces to lobby the federal government...