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Memo to Indonesia: clear the red tape
Despite decades of reform, Indonesia's potential as a strong growth economy fuelled by investment won't be realised until all levels of government...
Free economies will choose money over the gun
We live in an age of world peace. To be more specific: a ''neoliberal'' age of world peace. Certainly it doesn't seem like it. The 21st...
Malaysia solution puts politics before people
The United Nations can't seem to decide whether the Gillard Government's refugee swap arrangement with Malaysia is legitimate or illegitimate. The...
Refugee crime wave nothing but hogwash
Australia's large migrant, and refugee, intake is controversial. Advocates of a ‘small-Australia' point to congestion in our cities as one...
Ad ban on junk food no solution
A RECENT report from the Obesity Policy Coalition called for draconian restrictions on advertising so-called "junk food" on television at any time...
Hazelwood decision is a victory for common sense
THE Commonwealth Government is flooding the media with climate change and carbon tax reports from taxpayer-financed scientists and other...
Simon Chapman is blowing smoke on smoking
The public debate about smoking in a free society has reached fever-pitch since the federal government announced its plan for olive green plain...
Backwoods policy making
Released on the Friday after the federal budget, the Government's Sustainable Population Strategy is for the most part just 88 pages of promotional...
Audience on their feet for a fraud who called bin Laden his brother
David Hicks appeared at the Sydney Writers' Festival to discuss his autobiography Guantanamo: My Journey. And along for the ride was an audience of...
Indonesia needs reform to remain an attractive investment destination
The feisty debate between the House of Representatives and the finance minister over purchasing a stake in miner Newmont Nusa Tenggara points to...