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Price ceilings on electricity need to go
Last week marked the first ever retailer failure in the Australian electricity market. Energy One, a retailer serving customers mainly in...
Leaders locked in the past
You Australians are smart people. We can't understand why you still think you need to make things." So said a senior bureaucrat in the Commerce,...
On telecoms, regulator chuting blanks
Far from a success of public policy, the $1 billion rural broadband subsidy won by Optus and Elders demonstrates once again the failure of the...
ACTU oversteps moral boundary line
If Australian unions aren't careful they risk losing much of their moral authority in the debate over workplace reform. If this occurs they could...
The left has deserted Hawke's famous promise
This week is the 20th anniversary of the most famous promise in national politics. At the Sydney Opera House during his campaign launch for the...
PPPs a helpful way to determine value for money
The State Government's announcement on water on Tuesday triggered several predictable responses. Clearly the most justified of these was the...
Easing Climate Conscience is Tricky
With all the concern about global warming, you would think a big business that signed up to a 'Climate Action Partnership' would be praised. But in...
Nuclear, not solar, power is the brown coal alternative
Every politician may now be a convert to some form of carbon restraint but few have thought through the implications. Prime Minister John Howard...
Chilling case of accessive regulation
Having been a touchstone in Australia's economic resurgence, the national access regime is now a ball and chain around the ankle of growth....
Federalism could open locked land
State Governments used to have purchasing preferences to advantage local suppliers. Such measures added needless costs and were always of dubious...