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Changes in the Air? Issues in Domestic Aviation Policy
Christopher FindlayDecember 1, 1984PF3

The US Airlines Deregulation Act of 1978 and the prior de facto deregulation accomplished by...

UNCTAD and the North-South Dialogue
October 4, 1984OP9

It is common for governments of wester industrialised nations (the ‘North; in the title) to...

Chaining Australia: Church Bureaucracies and Political Economy
Geoffrey BrennanAugust 1, 1984R6

If we lived in a perfect world, church bodies would not have gotten together to...

Occupational Regulation and the Public Interest
Robert Albon, Greg LindsayMarch 1, 1984R5

Restrictions on entry into a profession or occupation raise the incomes of practitioners by limiting...

Democracy in Crisis
Michael JensenOctober 5, 1983OP8

Is there are conflict between unlimited political democracy and a Market economy? Michael C. Jensen...

The Entreprenuer in Society
Barry MaleyApril 1, 1983PF2
‘Woke is broke’ as a conservative tide travels around the Western world
January 18, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

It has become obvious to all but the most ideologically obdurate that a conservative tide...

Yes, the public service can be more efficient. But it won’t solve all our woes
Simon CowanJanuary 11, 2025THE CANBERRA TIMES

Even though the words of Auld Lang Syne have disappeared once again into the leaking...

Mining industry foes would leave us with fewer roads, hospitals and schools
Gene TunnyJanuary 10, 2025DAILY TELEGRAPH

Coal and gas royalty payments from mining companies are a major revenue stream for state...

Voice to parliament
Citizenship based on rights won’t restore nation’s civil society
Peter KurtiJanuary 2, 2025THE AUSTRALIAN

As the new year opens, discussion heats up about contenders for Australian of the Year....

State-sanctioned ‘truth’ is still a danger under the Greens and teals
December 30, 2024THE AUSTRALIAN

Australia dodged a bullet this year when the federal government withdrew its contentious legislation to...

Voters across the world are resentful, angry and lashing out
Simon CowanDecember 28, 2024CANBERRA TIMES
This year’s biggest losers have been political incumbents. Across the world, voters have been punishing...
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