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If the government's broken, dump it: votes of a disposable society
Whether Gerry Harvey likes it or not, we live in a society that runs on the back of consumer power. The internet and trade liberalisation have...
Tap our rich CSG reserves
Coal-seam gas is developing as a bonanza for Australia and specifically for Queensland. Notwithstanding considerable pressure from anti-development...
Queensland election result and fiscal policy
The postmortem of the state election result has begun in earnest, with many issues already bandied about as factors explaining Queensland Labor's...
Price Labor will pay for pricing carbon keeps rising
Legislating the carbon tax only exacerbates Labor's existing crisis of relevance. And it's not because of a lack of trust over a broken promise....
Tasers: the non-lethal force that kills
It's time to stop describing Tasers as "non-lethal" weapons. They are quasi-lethal. At best. That much should be clear from the death of...
Life experience key among advisers
David Gonski. Glen Boreham. Ray Finkelstein. Ken Henry. They have each headed up one of the Gillard government's recent...
No granny chic in nanny state shtick
Risk-averse paternalism makes for a perverse reversal of freedoms. The nanny state isn't a cheap Tory slogan. It is a threat to our free, open,...
Financial market implications from the carbon tax
There are three main issues related to measures involving taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. First, there is the...
Newspapers tangled in politics... that's yesterday's news
Every generation thinks the world they are presented with is unique. Reflecting on the 1819 parliamentary session, the British conservative Henry...
Taxed to the max on emissions
Excluding and misrepresenting unfavourable data does not provide a credible analysis into Australia's extremely expensive carbon tax. Yesterday the...