Recent Posts
- Labor's bid for local control, The Australian
- Advocates of a nanny state assume we are all children, Courier Mail
- Regulating supermarkets does not checkout, Canberra Times
- Carbon market flaws evident, The Australian
- Selling out press for a bit of pork, The Australian
- Indifference to regulatory price rises a problem, Australian Financial Review
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Slim chance of global carbon market after Kyoto
Irrespective of whether Julia Gillard succeeds in selling her carbon tax plan to the public, eight months before the next federal election the policy and political foundations for its introduction will dissolve. The market-based policy foundations for cutting emissions through … Continue reading
Equality for all couples won’t destroy society
THE extension of marriage to same-sex couples needn’t come at the expense of a stable society or religious human rights. In its fashionably early 1996 article on opening marriage to same-sex couples The Economist magazine correctly argued “marriage remains an … Continue reading
Cheap energy matters
I’m currently in Europe for work, but one of the most obvious differences between the attitudes of Australians and Europeans are the issues they think that matter. In Australia we have a government pursuing a carbon tax that will create … Continue reading
I wouldn’t normally, but on this occassion …
I wouldn’t normally post an article by a colleague, but this article by Executive Director of the IPA, John Roskam, isn’t just a corker, it’s also spot on. Well worth a read if you’ve been sucked in by the government’s … Continue reading
Economists back a carbon tax?
No one should be surprised that a survey of economists said a market-based scheme is the best alternative for distributing carbon tax pain. Markets are a technology. Just because you support free markets doesn’t mean you should support market-based tax … Continue reading
