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Conservatives court the same-sex marriage lobby
New York now joins Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Iowa, Connecticut, Vermont and Washington DC in having legalised gay marriage. Internationally,...
Brown's economic Xenophobia will cost us dearly
For a man who so warmly embraces every foreigner seeking asylum in Australia, Bob Brown is strangely xenophobic when it comes to foreigners who...
IPA: 'we have not been missing in action'
In Crikey yesterday Guy Rundle pointed out that the IPA has been the leading critic of nanny state proposals that try to tell Australians what to...
One hack of a crime wave, or so they say
Keep calm and carry on: cyber crime is not the threat it's made out to be. There is no better fodder for naked fearmongering than crime conducted...
Subsidising solar power is just plain crazy
A 100-megawatt solar power station is planned for Mildura. And last weekend Energy Minister Martin Ferguson announced funding for two new projects,...
New Republicans swap their neo-cons for doves
Perhaps one of the most striking attributes of the current Republican field is their dovishness. Last week's forum for presidential candidates made...
Australia's emission levels are overstated
In a chapter of a recentIy published Anthology, "Energy, Sustainability and the Environment" edited by F.P. Sioshansi, I observed that...
Great Recession, Great Depression: a sign of things to come
Is Barack Obama being haunted by the ghost of Great Depression past? Is the economic malaise currently plaguing the United States taking on an...
States in crisis mirror EU
As the euro zone teeters on the brink, interested bystanders ask how long Germany will keep bailing out Greece, and why on earth it wants to. But...
But Ross, who has an economy-wide carbon tax?
Yesterday saw two very important contributions to the carbon tax debate being published. First Greg Sheridan published a takedown of Ross Garnaut...