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Privatisation gives power to consumers
The NSW government's 10-year march to electricity privatisation is finally under way. The state's retailers and generators are earmarked for sale....
GM release triumph for reason over green-wash
In an interesting post-election development, within a few days of Kevin Rudd's Labor Party storming home to win the federal election with a lot of...
It's not because they weren't 'liberal' enough that the Libs lost
In the wake of the Liberals' federal election loss there's been a mass of commentary suggesting that the party should be more "liberal". Yes -- the...
A loss for civilisation
According to my Oz-watching pals in Britain and the US, John Howard is not a failure but a victim of his own success. He made Australia safe for...
Fame game filling our need for celebrities
Australian soccer is salivating over the more than 80,000 people who turned up to Sydney's Telstra Stadium on Wednesday night and watched David...
State's water split remains a dam shame
Ideological aversion to dams in the state government's first bloom meant cancelling the proposed Mitchell Basin dam. The drought has meant the...
Cooler assessment of climate obsession
Over the past half-century we have become used to planetary scares of one kind or another. But the latest such scare -- global warming -- has...
Battles ahead for Nelson
To remark that the Liberal Party hasn't had a great six days would be to state the blindingly obvious. On Saturday it lost a federal election, and...
Make way for youth
The clean removal of John Howard from the leadership and Parliament, and Peter Costello as a leadership contender, provides the Liberal Party with...
Kyoto comes with problems
Having placed Kyoto ratification as the No. 1 priority, former diplomat Kevin Rudd wakes up to reality. Rudd thinks ratifying Kyoto gives us some...