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Sonny Bill and the fiendish frogs

Ken Parish
July 31, 2008July 31, 2008
What a lot of nonsense has been talked about the defection to French rugby of rugby league star Bobby Sue Billy Jo Sonny Bill Williams!  First,...
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What’s ugly?

Nicholas Gruen
July 30, 2008
Would you find lots of oval shaped stations popping up all over the place in your city an eyesore?  And they have advertising on them....
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Desperately fishing for votes

Ken Parish
July 30, 2008July 30, 2008
The High Court's decision earlier today in the Blue Mud Bay case sets the cat among the pigeons (or maybe the shark among the barramundi)...
Climate Change Economics and public policy

It’s the uncertainty stupid: Krugman slam dunk on carbon abatement

Nicholas Gruen
July 29, 2008July 29, 2008
Fresh from Krugman's blog. As usual, it can't be put much better. (more…)
Economics and public policy

A new saving and payments system

Nicholas Gruen
July 28, 2008September 28, 2008
Here's today's column in the Financial Review. The interface between you and your bank used to be the branch. Today banks give your computer sufficient...
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Vale Randy Pausch

Nicholas Gruen
July 27, 2008
Law

Max Mosley, Bondage and Civil Procedure

Nicholas Gruen
July 27, 2008
I realise this is kind of missing the main news story in the recent court victory of Max Mosley - son of Oswald who was...

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