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Bring on the competition
It's hard to believe this is Australia in 2011. People are complaining milk is too cheap. The government wants books to be more expensive. And...
Government squeezing ever tighter
Governments around the country are becoming significant players in fuelling cost-of-living pressures affecting many families. The available CPI...
You may not believe in climate change, but you will pay
A Galaxy poll commissioned by the Institute of Public Affairs has found that only a third of Australians think the world is warming due to human...
Infrastructure Australia has been all but derailed
The Gillard government's confirmation that it will contribute $2.1 billion to building the Epping-Parramatta railway line in suburban Sydney will...
Anti-dumping laws: in whose interest?
It's hard to top deposing a Prime Minister. But having the management of Rio Tinto replaced by monkeys (as Australian Worker's Union boss Paul...
Booksellers spell it out
The demise of Angus & Robertson and Borders book chains should be a wake-up call for the Gillard government to scrap trade import barriers...
Striving for political and economic freedom
It was no surprise that the Economic Freedom of the Arab World Report was launched in Cairo last year. Egypt has been at the centre of economic...
Are we all neo-cons now?
An old neo-con colleague from Washington called me at the weekend to gloat about the downfall of Mubarak. "What do you think now, Switzer?" he...
Federalism's stuck in a rut
With yet another Council of Australian Governments meeting set to convene this week, it is now an opportune time to acknowledge that a new approach...
Why we're a nation of homebodies
Most Australians think of themselves as highly mobile. We're a nation of immigrants, after all. The phrases ''sea change'' and ''tree change'' are...