Ideas@ The Centre 32
Vol. 10 No. 32 (September, 2009) Freedom quote of the weekThe state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
— Frédéric Bastiat
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The easy way to cut tax
| 09 Oct 2009
The difficulty with cutting tax is that the government also needs to reduce its spending, and few people are willing to give up their government benefits. But there is a way to cut tax and spending by $80 billion, while leaving nobody worse off.
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Blinding trachoma still plagues Australian outback
| 09 Oct 2009
Australia has the unenviable distinction of being the only developed country in the world to still have trachoma.
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Upsetting greenies is fine, but you can’t dig up living standards
| 09 Oct 2009
How many governments around the western world are suggesting turning national parks into mines? New Zealand’s Minister of Energy Gerry Brownlee has done just that, announcing that the government will be exploring whether parts of the national conservation estate can unlock mineral resource potential.
