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Abbott faces stiff challenge in fighting carbon tax
With one month to go before the carbon tax starts, Tony Abbott's effort to repeal it is about to get harder. Following the GST's implementation,...
Gillard plays the unedifying 'small Australia' card
It's obvious what Julia Gillard was doing when she claimed Enterprise Migration Agreements for mining projects would not favour foreign workers....
Obama beats Bush in assault on civil rights
America's security powers continue to grow. It's been fun for the left in Australia to fixate on the Republican candidates for the American...
Nasser tells it like it is
It's not quite going from the sublime to the ridiculous - but it's close. Two speeches have captured the national headlines over the past week....
Voters strain at paying for even small carbon cuts
The carbon tax and similar measures involve us making sacrifices to forestall what the government says will be catastrophic human-induced climate...
Qantas proved right in resisting unions
Qantas announced changes to its aircraft maintenance arrangements yesterday. The result is 500 staff in Victoria will lose their jobs. The unions...
Locking people away forever because ASIO reckons
It's a scandal that administrative decisions which result in indefinite detention are made outside judicial scrutiny. In his 1885 book An...
The unhappy compromise of European 'austerity'
Has austerity worked in Europe? Well, if "austerity" means savage cuts to government spending, then there has been no austerity. Figuring out...
The politics of projection: there's a reason we can't all just get along
Politics is almost entirely in the eye of the beholder. Obviously conservatives, libertarians, progressives and environmentalists have different...
Great expectations vanish
The federal budget was entirely predictable. The dodgy accounting. The flimsy "surplus". The higher taxes on the wealthy. The bribes to the...