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- Labor's bid for local control, The Australian
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- Indifference to regulatory price rises a problem, Australian Financial Review
Monthly Archives: August 2011
How free is Australian trade? Not enough is the answer
Rowan Callick had a timely piece in The Australian today focusing on Australia’s trade policy. Protectionist rumblings on all sides of politics have become deeply disturbing in the last few days and weeks. As Paul Kelly investigates in his column … Continue reading
Are juries a waste of time, Sunday Telegraph’s Debate
Ainslie Van Onselen and Tim Wilson go head-to-head on whether or not juries are a waste of time. AINSLIE VAN ONSELEN: Ask anyone who has sat on a jury trial and you will hear spine-chilling stories: jury members changing their … Continue reading
The apple industry doesn’t like competition
No one should be surprised the apple industry doesn’t like competition from New Zealand imports. Their claim is that fire blight will kill their crops. Let’s be clear. The decision to allow imports was after the successful challenge by New … Continue reading
It’s not everyday the editorial in The Australian is about you
A chilling climate on FOI WHEN it comes to the business of government, too much information is barely enough. So we struggle to see how the Department of Climate Change could consider Tim Wilson of the Institute of Public Affairs a vexatious … Continue reading
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In reality China’s carbon tax is far lower than ours
TOMORROW the federal parliament may debate the one-year anniversary of Julia Gillard’s haunting broken promise that “there will be no carbon tax under the government I lead” but they shouldn’t ignore the misinformation the government has knowingly promoted since. Last … Continue reading
