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How to slash housing cost
In the bad old days state governments' purchasing policies advantaged local suppliers by granting them preferential treatment. Such measures were...
Expect more gymnastics
The Dalai Lama's Australian visit has revealed the diplomatic gymnastics our politicians perform when they deal with China. "Checking the diary"...
Media faces an unsentimental future
Media critics have made careers proclaiming how dangerous media moguls are for Australian democracy. These critics now face an even more serious...
Can We Embrace Carbon Trading?
Prime Minister, John Howard, set up a joint government-business taskforce last December to consider the potential for a national carbon trading...
Self-defeating exaggeration
Australia might not be perfect, but it is a pretty good place in which to live. Most of us would regard ourselves as being fortunate. Millions of...
Brave policies doing the business
Why is it that we seem to be experiencing a miracle economy? What's happening today was thought impossible just 10 years ago. In the 1990s...
Labor nurtures reactionary line
The main reason unions are doing so well in their campaign against Work Choices is because they are appealing to long-held conservative values....
Fortune requires much less negativity
Tax reform, the environment, improving living standards and education; they are all big challenges facing Australia. We need to address them with...
Admit there's something in the genes
Biotechnology should be one of Victoria's great successes. The state garners more than 40 per cent of medical research grants and is home to 141...
Bureaucracy gone mad
For a moment, think the unthinkable. It is December 2007. Greg Combet is the federal minister for trade union affairs, and his ministerial adviser...