John Howard PM turns 10 – the column
Herewith this week's column which tries to sum up my own view of John Howard's economic stewardship. Obviously the piece has to have focus and...
Matt Welch on the new propaganda
The Bush administration has returned to the covert propaganda tactics of the Cold War, says Matt Welch. And In the process they've "forgotten one of...
Politicisation of the public service
From the Financial Review, 28th Feb, 2006 Every few months the head of the Prime Minister's department, Peter Shergold, denies that the Commonwealth public service...
Discrimination
Shaun Cronin post on The Biggest Loser raises issues that I've been thinking about for some time, and found difficult to get very far with....
Deep North Dispatch #2
A weekly wrap of what's been happening across the Top End news-wise, which might be handy for former residents who really miss reading about this...
A disaster waiting to happen – the AWB
We think it's the best system in the world quite frankly (Then) AWB CEO Andrew Lindberg in 2001 on the set up the AWB had...