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Wheat change is coming: time to help not hinder
Despite Labor's repeated reiteration that its election policy will be implemented, the Wheat Export Marketing Alliance continues to chase media...
Mission Impossible
Professor Ross Garnaut is looking to the world stabilising emission levels at year 2000 levels "soon after 2020". Following this he sees a need for...
One for the country
Anybody who remembers that photograph of Peter Costello gleefully surrounded by newborn infants knows one thing: it isn't only aspiring parents who...
Let banks and instos make own credit decisions
According to US betting market Intrade, there is a 65 per cent probability that the US economy will experience a recession sometime in 2008. Some...
Car tariffs drive competition - what nonsense
Following the closure of the Mitsubishi plant in Adelaide, the Australian economy and consumers would support Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and...
Can't regulate for cupidity
According to the quip of John Maynard Keynes, the only things certain in this world are death and taxes. As we now know, Keynes was wrong about...
Sector-specific policies a brackish solution to car industry's woes
It is hard to imagine that Australia has ever had a more amiable politician than Steve Bracks. But amiable politicians are notorious for ducking...
Same old problems driving us mad
Another inquiry into the car industry is about to begin and yet again the dominant issue, endemic labour problems, will be ignored. There's a...
The public is being taken for a ride
It would be good to know whether the people who make decisions about Melbourne's public transport system actually use it. And it would also be good...
Rudd's super summit puts the con into consensus
There is a strange fantasy held by many serious people in politics that if you get enough experts in a room, some sort of magical consensus will...