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The maintenance of a corporate welfare state comes at a hefty long-term price
The latest edition of the Institute of Public Affairs state business tax study, showing South Australia as the highest taxing state for this year,...
Buying our love with our money is just not sporting
Nothing excites state politicians more than having their government host major sporting events. Over the past decade, the Victorian Government has...
Populate and prosper
In what surely must come as a great surprise to demographers biding their time at university campuses and in research bureaus, the population issue...
Rudd Leaves Denmark with a Rotten Deal
To secure a Copenhagen Accord Kevin Rudd sold out Australia's long-term negotiating interests and accepted the full cost of any future climate...
The road after Copenhagen
The accord from the Copenhagen climate change conference wasn't the result of a negotiation, but unidirectional concessions by developed countries...
Give or take a million, there's nothing to fear
The Australian population might reach 35 million in 2050, according to Treasury's latest intergenerational report. Seems like a lot? Relax. That...
Filter our freedom of speech right
The new mandatory filtering regime proposed by the Government is the kind of election pledge most wish the Government would just forget about. It...
A patent Copenhagen solution
India's negotiating position on intellectual property (IP) at the Copenhagen climate change conference might be good politics, but it's unlikely to...
Debunking the Mummy Party vs Daddy Party theory of politics
It might not seem like it right now, but there's more to Australian politics than emissions trading schemes and "climate action". On the day after...
It's the Poor Who'll Pay for Copenhagen's Circus
More people attend UN conferences than make a meaningful contribution, but even by UN standards delegates are describing the Copenhagen climate...