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The system suffers when everyone has somewhere to hide
This global financial crisis is testing to extremes every idea and tool economic regulators possess. But regulators don't demonstrate any...
Influencing innovation
Should we worry about innovation? The Venturous Australia report to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research ought to tell us...
Influencing Innovation
Should we worry about innovation? The Venturous Australia report to the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research ought to tell us...
Where's the local goodwill when it comes to rates
How do we know that our local councils have raised far more money than they need? It isn't the fact that local governments have enough money to...
Small voice with big ambitions
Climate change forecasts by scientists are having a dominant influence on policy throughout the world. Politicians and economists have popularised...
Bet your sweet bippee it's a crisis
The meltdown on Wall Street will hit all world economies. The cataclysm follows from bankers combining and repackaging mortgage and other debt to...
Chance for lucky Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull has an opportunity to seize the initiative against a deteriorating economic outlook, writes John Roskam. If there's such a thing...
Whale: It’s Our Choice
It's free-range, organic and tastes like an exceptionally tender eye fillet, but it's unlikely to find its way onto the supermarket shelves in...
Get off the turps - idiots are the problem, not alcohol
Hardly a weekend goes by without a heavily publicised nightclub bashing or brawl plastered all over the newspapers. Melbourne seems to have...
A change is patently needed
Patents are a private property right designed to incentivise innovation. But the incentives that patents provide for pharmaceutical innovation have...