The Australian government, with bipartisan support, has stated its clear intention to speed the transition away from carbon-intensive energy. It plans to do this by increasing the relative appeal of alternative...... Read More
The Coming Crisis of Medicare: Medicare is becoming an anachronism. The ‘free and universal’ taxpayer-funded health systems of the twentieth century were created in an age when medicine was rudimentary...... Read More
The vast majority of China watchers are optimists, pessimists are few and far between. For optimists, China’s rise is the next exciting instalment of Asia’s economic rise since World War Two. In a...... Read More
Comparisons may be odious and analogies tricky, but they can be indispensable. Which ones are chosen, however, is a matter of some importance. In the current debate over Iraq, the analogy of choice has...... Read More
CRIMINALISING CARTELS IS UNPRODUCTIVE The government should reconsider the introduction of criminal penalties for cartelisation, says a new report being released on Wednesday.... Read More
SELLING SHORT INDIGENOUS HIGHER EDUCATION PARTICIPATION The government’s use of race-based ‘average’ educational performance measures denigrates Indigenous achievement, ignoring the achievements...... Read More
GOVERNMENT MAY BE KEYNESIANS AGAIN, BUT IS EVERYONE ELSE? Using economic stimulus to stabilise economies, was so much in vogue until the early 1970s that Richard Nixon famously declared ‘We are all...... Read More