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Climate change can't be stopped, but we will adapt
Julia Gillard is half-right. The world is acting on climate change. But not acting to stop it - to adapt to it. In the 1920s, an average of 240...
Media Watch: Everyone loves it until they advocate censorship
On last week's Media Watch, host Jonathan Holmes called for the government to use a practically defunct regulation to restrict free speech because...
We're in debt to Barnaby
Wayne Swan and Ken Henry owe Barnaby Joyce an apology. A year ago Joyce, then the Coalition's finance spokesman, warned of...
O'Farrell has to get on board with trains
If there is one statistic which sums up the malaise that has gripped NSW in recent years, it is the patronage on the Sydney public transport...
The costs of climate of confusion
A reason for voter disquiet about Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon tax announcement is there are so many unanswered questions about how the...
West's history not complete without reference to Christianity
Julia Gillard's declaration over the weekend that she would like the Bible taught in schools seems odd, given she's Australia's most prominent...
Progressive intellectuals have poisoned the well for Labor
The general consensus is that NSW Labor enjoyed one too many election wins in 2007, with regretful voters longingly wishing to put the governing...
Energy price increases: hiding behind treasury's Pollyanna forecasts
Lane Crockett of wind farm builder Pacific Hydro accuses "groups such as the IPA" of blaming "a soft target like (the Renewable Energy Target) RET...
Natural disasters give economic growth a moral dimension
Between 1990 and 2002, globally 815,077 people were killed by 4,300 natural disasters. Since then, an earthquake in Bam, Iran in 2003 took 26,000...
Hands up if you're in favour of cheap milk ... anyone?
One would be forgiven this week for assuming low prices are bad. Coles's January decision to sell house-brand milk for $1 a litre was followed by...