Monthly Archives: October 2005

Are you a terror suspect?

Posted on October 31, 2005 by Nicholas Gruen

In a way this story is reassuring. I don’t have any objection to some extra attention being given to someone who fits a profile of a terrorist. But of course the potential helplessness in the face of bureaucracy is thoroughly … Continue reading →

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Homo Dialecticus V: Why Adam Smith is to markets what Jane Austen is to marriage¢â¬

Posted on October 29, 2005 by Nicholas Gruen

I’ve just got back from a trip to Canberra which allowed me to pick up the family copy of Pride and Prejudice – my Dad’s favourite book by his favourite author. I wanted to bring it back for my 11 … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and public policy, Films and TV, Uncategorized | 8 Comments

Hundreds of essays disappear

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Nicholas Gruen

I sent two unsolicited essays to Black Inc a couple of months ago a longer and a shorter essay on open source software. Neither was successful which was fair enough. Fortunately I hadn’t written them for that forum, but was … Continue reading →

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More on anti-terror

Posted on October 28, 2005 by Ken Parish

Richard Ackland has a powerful and angry article in this morning’s SMH about the Howard government’s anti-terrorism bill (a topic about which I’ve blogged here and here): The design of the legislation is to conscript the federal judiciary into sprinkling … Continue reading →

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Intergenerational theft and intergenerational gifts

Posted on October 27, 2005 by Nicholas Gruen

As David Williamson’s latest foray demonstrates this idea that we’re stealing from our kids is back in fashion. Cruise Ship Australia is in fact living off resources that took billions of years to accumulate. We’re eating up our past at … Continue reading →

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Gagging on scag scam

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Ken Parish

I must be going through a particularly grumpy phase of middle age at the moment. It’s not often these days that I find myself so peeved by a TV current affairs story that I can’t resist resorting to a cathartic … Continue reading →

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Noel Pearson, ten years on

Posted on October 26, 2005 by Tony Harris

Thanks to Ian for providing the link to this 1994 piece by Noel Pearson, deploring the Labor failure to allocate more money to health care or any other stragegies to address the devastation wrought by alcohol in the outback communities. … Continue reading →

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