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The two faces of Haneef's defenders
Civil libertarians and many legal groups are guilty of hypocrisy in the way they allegedly defend justice in the Australian community. Their double...
Cut-price drugs weaken industry
Oxfam Australia and other anti-business advocacy groups have long been antagonistic to the idea of patent protection for new medicines. The...
Ideology is a health risk
Belief is a powerful thing. Often belief in something can be sustained despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In 1919, the Hungarian Georg...
New laws free the worker from the mob
The Howard Government has been attacked by unions and supporting academics for allowing small business to collectively bargain but denying the same...
Put the house price myths out to pasture
The Labor Party will hold a conference to finalise its housing policy in Canberra on Thursday. Some people claim that the current high house prices...
Take another look at the leaves
Why is it that over the past several months financial analysts and pundits seem to have been convinced that the Reserve Bank would increase...
Terrorism is real. Just ask those who have lost loved ones
One of the great myths of history is that communism never threatened Australia. It is a myth successfully propagated by generations of left-leaning...
Give me land, lots of land ... the housing will follow
The Labor Party has claimed the federal government is causing housing unaffordability or mortgage stress. They claim this is created by high...
Hands off software, Samuel
Nothing gets you more attention than picking on the cool kid at school. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is arguing that Google...
Butt out of individual's private pleasure
Most people have been surprised at the speed with which the smoking ban has been comprehensively adopted. And, as most of us don't smoke, we are...