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Private Correspondence: Competition or Monopoly in Australia’s Postal Services?
Robert AlbonOctober 18, 1985PM7

Dr Albon beleives that the most important and practical way to improve postal services to...

Trial Without Error: Anticipation vs Resilence as Strategies for Risk Reduction
Aaron WildavskyAugust 19, 1985OP13

Safety regulations are proliferating at a great rate in society today, attempting to protect us...

Enterprise: Free, Dependent or Captor?
Warren HoganAugust 8, 1985OP12

The relationship between government and business is the theme of this essay. Each depends on...

Hayek’s ‘Serfdom’ Revisited
Norman BarryJune 1, 1985R7

Champions of a cause have always been easy victims of the authoritarian tendency to worship...

The Case Against the Arbitration Commission
P.P. McGuinnessApril 26, 1985OP11

The Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission is the main obstacle to much-needed reform of industrial...

Capital Xenophobia: Australia’s Controls of Foreign Investment
Wolfgang KasperDecember 18, 1984PM6

An early study by the CIS which supported the lifting of controls on foreign investment...

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price maiden speech
Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s maiden speech
Jacinta Nampijinpa PriceJuly 27, 2022HANSARD

Thank you, Madam President. I am immensely honoured to be standing here before you as...

JUDGE LAW LEGAL
This is what happens when politics puts on judicial robes
Helen DaleJuly 23, 2022THE AUSTRALIAN

When I learnt that a SCOTUS judgment — on abortion, no less — had leaked,...

New mindset of action must replace grand symbolic gestures
Anthony Dillon, Nyunggai Warren Mundine AOJuly 20, 2022THE AUSTRALIAN

During the past few weeks, The Australian newspaper, as it has done responsibly many times...

Wellbeing budget
‘Wellbeing’ budgets are a ruse that fail to deliver progress
Simon CowanJuly 16, 2022CANBERRA TIMES

So Australia will follow New Zealand’s ‘lead’ in introducing a wellbeing-focused budget. Labor has been...

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Looking for racism goes against the fabric of Australian society
Peter KurtiJuly 15, 2022DAILY TELEGRAPH

Determined to portray Australia in the drab colours of bigotry and prejudice, anti-racism warriors are...

teachers resignation
There is no great resignation of teachers
Glenn FaheyJuly 10, 2022AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW

Education unions say there are too many teachers leaving the profession, but the real problem...

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