As Victorian farmers prepare to vote on the issue of dairy deregulation, a little publicised report by the Senate has raised serious questions about the policy. The recent Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport Reference Committee report, Deregulation of the Australian Dairy Industry, raises serious questions about the National Competition Policy process. It says…
“Columbus goes down in history as the world’s most famous explorer, perhaps history’s most famous man, because he found the completely unexpected, the Americas, and they happened to be full of gold. One moral of the story is that it is important to be smart, but that it is even more important to be lucky.…
“The totality of our experience has made us great believers in the dynamism of the free market, and in the unparalleled power of capitalism to promote economic growth … But we also believe that both history and current experience demonstrate that left to its own devices, laissez-faire capitalism is extremely vulnerable to instability and perfectly…
Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann from the German news magazine “Der Spiegel”, have described the development of globalisation in their new book “The Global Trap: The Assault on Democracy and Prosperity”: They say:“World wide, more than 40,000 transnational corporations play their employees as well as their nations against each other. Forty per cent capital gains…
