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- 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
Tag Archives: The Australian
Labor’s bid for local control, The Australian
AUSTRALIA should be governed from local communities up, not Canberra down. Last week Julia Gillard announced a referendum to amend the Constitution allowing the federal government to fund local government directly. The Prime Minister argued: “This is about saying yes … Continue reading
We go above, beyond with pledge, The Australian
WHILE increasing our carbon tax bill, at last December’s climate change summit in Doha the Gillard government committed to cutting emissions by more than twice as much as comparable countries. The headline story from the summit was that Canada, Japan, … Continue reading
We need more supermarkets, not regulation, The Australian
TO drive down prices at the supermarket checkout requires more supermarkets, not more regulation. Competition tsar Rod Sims has indicated 2013 will be the year of supermarket regulation to make the sector more competitive. Speaking to the ABC earlier this … Continue reading
Both sides of politics should cease nanny-state meddling, The Australian
Stopping the assault on people’s freedom requires an attitudinal change to the role of government. Last week Nick Cater wrote on this page, in “Do-gooder laws nothing but a drag” (January 3), about the dodgy social economics of anti-tobacco advocates … Continue reading
Junk Kyoto and the carbon tax, The Australian
From Doha it’s clear the rest of the world cannot sustain the UN-led model for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and Australia should recognise it by junking the Kyoto Protocol and the carbon tax it helped create. Late on Saturday, the … Continue reading
