Crime and punishment – umpteenth chapter
Recent NT News discussion on the perennial topic of crime and punishment seems to have generated more heat than light. Chief Justice Trevor Riley wrote...
Warwick McKibbin has challenged Wayne Swan to reappoint him
Those are the words that the sub-editor of the Australian - I presume that is who wrote them - used to describe these comments from...
Missing link Friday – Bad mother edition
This week we're stealing a few links from the Profligate Promiscuous Strumpet before moving on to a couple of stories from the US blogosphere. The...
Any alternatives to a levy?
I might have preferred for the Government to take a risk with the surplus in 2012/13, and perhaps to have a go at middle-class welfare,...
Real journalists don’t do data
When conservative commentator Tucker Carlson launched the Daily Caller last year he promised readers original reporting on US politics. As he told the Columbia Journalism...
The cold shower effect – alive and well and living in twelve European economies.
The cold shower effect is a dangerous beast. It supports free market types in supporting trade liberalisation. When last seen, the cold shower effect was...
80 Million People can’t all get along – China’s past and future
It's becoming a point of distinction not to have prognosticated on the future of China, especially in Australia as China takes great significance in our...