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Chris Berg

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US surveillance scandal just the tip of the iceberg

Deregulation Unit and Media, Telecommunications and IT Unit | Chris Berg
The Age 16th June, 2013

More than a decade after the September 11 attacks, the US is having a debate about its monstrous national security apparatus. Finally. In that...

Labor's end: out with the old, in with the renewed

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Drum 11th June, 2013

Let's say Rudd returns to the prime ministership - which seems possible - and then goes on to win the next election - a big ask, but not entirely...

At risk of an asylum seeker underclass

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Drum 4th June, 2013

A reductio ad absurdum is an argumentative ploy to show a proposition is wrong by taking it to its most absurd extreme. Australia's...

Should you foot the bill for execrable waste of human resources?

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
2nd June, 2013

Trolls like to say that trolling is an art form. To troll is to be inflammatory on the internet for the sole purpose of disrupting and offending...

Insane obsession: Australia's auto industry waste

Economics & Deregulation | Chris Berg
The Drum 28th May, 2013

In his foreword to the 2008 A New Car Plan for a Greener Future, Kevin Rudd observed that half a century had lapsed between the first demonstration...

When does mission creep become censorship?

Ideas & Liberty, Freedom of Speech and Deregulation Unit | Chris Berg
The Drum 21st May, 2013

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is completely out of control. The corporate regulator is an independent government agency. It...

If by a miracle Labor wins the poll, it must deal with the Treasurer

Economics & Deregulation | Chris Berg
The Age 19th May, 2013

They say every political career ends in failure. But some more than others. All the evidence suggests Wayne Swan's sixth budget, released last...

Lavish parental leave has nothing to do with need

Economics & Deregulation | Chris Berg
The Drum 14th May, 2013

There's an easy test to see if a politician is spouting nonsense: they use the word "productivity" a lot. Productivity is an old standby. It sounds...

Aeroplane mobile switch-off ruled by fear of the unknown

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Drum 7th May, 2013

Last week we learned that Mark Dreyfus, Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Australia, was recently involved in "an incident" on an airplane....

Free-rein proposal by Canberra should be hobbled before the pass

Ideas & Liberty | Chris Berg
The Age 5th May, 2013

If the Gillard government has its way, we'll have an extra question to answer at the federal election in September: do we want to amend the...

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