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Labor's wrong direction on reform
Julia Gillard told us last week why it is imperative to get the legislative program started. Unfortunately. absent from this was the need to put...
Carbon price makes no policy sense
Gillard will need a big policy win this term. Even better if it's a win on the policy that sank her predecessor. So it was hardly surprising that...
In defence of the Tea Party
Christine O'Donnell's improbable win of the Republican Party's nomination for Senate in the normally-blue state of Delaware last week has set off a...
Sum of all fears for non-government school system
The new Labor-Green dominated Government has magnified the deep uncertainties already being felt by Australia's non-government schools over...
Bankrolling Oprah: the new tourist strategy
Fifty per cent of all advertising is wasted, says the marketing cliché. The problem is figuring out which fifty per cent. Last week we had a...
Savaging a popular policy a tricky task for Turnbull
Malcolm Turnbull's elevation to the shadow communications portfolio may be just what the debate over the national broadband network needs. It could...
Shoppers better off if building red tape is cut
Planning Minister Justin Madden, on the advice of a committee he had established, rejected Woolworths' application to build a new hardware store in...
Tea Party conservatives are brewing up a storm
It was hardly needed, but the Tea Party confirmed this week it's a big deal in American politics. It's a big deal for conservative politics...
Big new tax? Kloppers can't be serious
IT was almost as if BHP Billiton's Marius Kloppers had already cleared with the government the speech he delivered in favour of a carbon tax. The...
Abbott needs a to-do list
The federal liberals are making the same mistakes as the Victorian liberal Party. In 1999 after Jeff Kennett narrowly lost the state election,...