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Lower taxes encourage investment, expansion and employment
Tax competition between the states seems to be a dirty word among some economists. It is argued that a bidding war between states to lower tax...
These are taxing times for NSW business
It is almost certain that the NSW Government will mark 2008 as a year best forgotten. The state witnessed political instability at the top, with...
Dreaming of a different kind of White Paper
With a pre-Christmas White Paper, the Federal Government transformed the global warming debate's focus into the introduction of a comprehensive new...
Big business should be allowed to fail
Across the developed world we are witnessing an outbreak of bailout mania by governments. In the U.S. and Europe, governments have injected...
Spend cure the wrong advice for us
Kevin Rudd's announcement that he would inject a further $4.7 billion of infrastructure funding into the Australian economy brings the Federal...
Students are not cogs in a machine
The Bradley review into Australian Higher Education does not talk enough about students. The word ‘‘student'' appears many times, but...
A Bad Climate Trade-off
The high priests of climate change are wrapping up their latest meeting today in Poznan, Poland, where the United Nations is hosting a conference...
Business plays the patsy
What are business organizations for? Do they exist so their chief executives can sit on government advisory boards and have afternoon cocktails at...
Boom and bust the way of the West
There is a lot of gloom and doom around today. Even very optimistic people are understandably shaken when they see George W. Bush, one of the most...
Merger could hit red-tape turbulence
In a fast-moving global economy, government regulatory frameworks are rightly put under the microscope. The revelation in The Australian Financial...