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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)

What Thinking Australians Are Thinking (part 2)

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog

As an erstwhile Coalition supporter and economic rationalist, I am sure I am not alone in feeling disenfranchised at the coming election. Malcolm Turnbull seems unwilling to campaign on obvious Coalition strengths such as border security, national security,...

Low hanging fruit. There’s nothing a tax won’t fix.

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog

Canberra residents will become the first in the nation to pay a domestic violence tax, after the ACT government announced it would levy households $30 a year to fund an “unprecedented” $21.4 million reform package. Unveiling the Safer Families program as the...

by | Jun 8, 2016 | Blog

It seems Descartes, Locke and co were barking up the wrong tree; the answer is not nature or nurture but the government. No longer will children have to “choose their parents wisely,” as Bertrand Russell once advised. Under the fully funded Gonski plan, we are told,...