Of heroes and monsters

Understanding Tony Abbott

ACMA finding on Campbell case creates Catch 22

Learning from the past

Why countries need insurance too

Why Gerry Harvey is wrong

Gerry Harvey should be careful what he wishes before crying out for a "level playing field".

Today we will consider a significant public policy issue that affects all of us: competition in the retail sector. Gerry Harvey and other large Australian retailers are arguing that the Australian Government should impose the GST on purchases made online from overseas suppliers, to create a level playing field for Australian retailers.

Fighting Fire with Fire

Preventing Government Failures

Leading by example

Reforming the Australian Public Service

Green & Gold Issues

I am writing this as I attend the National Economic Review 2010, at Parliament House in Sydney.

And the music plays on

The independents have decided.

"I conclude, then, that so long as Fortune varies and men stand still, they will prosper while they suit the times, and fail when they do not. But I do feel this: that it is better to be rash than timid, for Fortune is a woman, and the man who wants to hold her down must beat and bully her. We see that she yields more often to men of this stripe than to those who come coldly toward her". Niccoló Machiavelli, The Prince