New article | Back in the Wall Street Journal on virus sharing



One of the areas of public policy I focus on is intellectual property and its relationship to public health. For a few years there has been a fascinating debate around the World Health Organisation on the issue of virus sharing. Basically countries are required to provide samples of viruses to the World Health Organisation in periods of pandemics to assist in the development of vaccines. The problem is that a few years ago Indonesia decided not to. And it started a big debate that coincided with the broader debate about IP and access to essential medicines. Normally it is a hard issue to get people interested in. Except at a time of a major influenza break out. Hence I managed to get a piece up in the Wall Street Journal about virus sharing. The article can be found here.


New link | Heavily quoted in the Coalition Senator's dissenting report to the Senate Inquiry into ETS

My report into Australia's ETS was included as a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the ETS legislation. I am happy to say that it was referenced extensively in the Coalition Senator's dissenting report. The dissenting report can be found here.


New report | Australia's illegal ETS?



The Australian government is currently negotiating the passage of an emissions trading scheme to reduce Australia's carbon dioxide footprint. But the government has done an appalling job in considering the international context of the ETS and whether it breaches Australia's existing trade obligations in the World Trade Organisation and Free Trade Agreements. It is not 100 per cent clear whether it will, or will not. But my report into the area shows the enormous scope of potential problems Australia may be facing. A copy can be found here.


New photo | Just a nice shot



As part of The Weekend Australian Magazine's Emerging Leaders series I did a photo shoot in Sydney while I was attending the Australia's Right to Know Conference. This is a photo they took of me at the Sofitel Wentworth. I thought it was a good snap. But it was not appropriate for the newspaper because they were after headshots, and this is clearly a full body shot. Special thanks to The Weekend Australian for giving it to me, and allowing me to use it.

A real honour | The Australian's ten emerging leaders of Australian society



Australia's national daily broadsheet, The Australian, is running a series on emerging leaders of Australia. There are twelve different categories. The first is society - which includes people in government, advocacy and society. I was very honoured to be asked to be included in that list with some other very successful young Australians. A copy of the article can be found here.


New articles | We shouldn't be turning our backs on free trade!

Since Kevin Rudd's absurd attack on neo-liberalism every nutbag has thought it acceptable to attack free trade. And it is my job to defend it. So I have had two articles in the Business Section of The Age. And they are available here and here.


New articles | Cracking the Herald Sun on free trade and free association

Summer is a great time to get published. Most journos take time off and regular columnists let their columns be filled by eager young writers. The Herald Sun is surprisingly hard to crack. But I managed to do it twice this January. First on cars here, and then on the right of free association here.