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John Roskam
A Treasury trove of errors
We now have the OzCar scheme to add to the list of Labor's failed grand designs. But OzCar won't be remembered as another of the federal...
Four pillars fickleness
Australia's four major banks want to have it both ways. The banks happily accept government regulations like the deposit guarantee, which gives...
Beware sorry fate of fads
Beware of fads. Two of the biggest fads going around at the moment are "green jobs" and the national broadband network. We're warned that...
The real OzCar scandal
In a short book published in 1944 and titled Bureaucracy, one of the godfathers of "neo-liberalism", the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises,...
Protectionism won't wash
The fight between the Rudd government and the ACTU is only slightly less fake than the Prime Minister's response when asked why more women weren't...
Outsider Sol bucked system
Sol Trujillo is wrong. We're far from perfect but we're not racist. The cartoons of Trujillo under a sombrero riding a donkey are no more offensive...
Kept on a short leash
If Prime Minister Kevin Rudd genuinely believes Treasury is conservative when it forecasts economic growth of 4 per cent within two years, then it...
Turnbull's neo-liberal cross
Malcolm Turnbull has a big problem. No, it's not Peter Costello. Turnbull's problem is much larger than that. The problem for Turnbull is that in...
Rule by nods and winks
The idea that anyone, let alone the government, has a clue about what the internet will look like in eight years' time is preposterous. In 2001 we...
Big and getting bigger
Kevin Rudd would have felt right at home at the Group of 20 summit. He was in the city where political spin was invented. And he was joined by the...