For the past 30 years, governments have been reluctant to commit to major infrastructure projects that could tap the potential water resources of the continent and ensure Australia’s long-term water security. While much of southern Australia languishes in drought, cyclones off Australia’s northern coastline, from Western Australia to Queensland, have dumped huge quantities of water…
Federal MP, Alan Cadman, has proposed replacing the child-care rebate with direct cash payments to parents who can then choose to spend it on either institutionalised child-care or home-based child-care. Alan Cadman, the Sydney Liberal MP who co-founded the Coalition’s Family Policy Group, has called for a major reform of the tax system to put…
Although the OECD has praised the Australian economy as being “the most deregulated and privatised in the Western industrialised world”, unregulated entities, such as powerful, monopolistic corporations, have undermined the market’s healthy function by reducing competition. The steady fall in the Australian dollar against our major trading partners, caused by rising interest rates in the…
Australia has missed a rare opportunity to influence communist China on the issues of human rights and China’s aggressive foreign policy, writes Peter Westmore. Australia has missed a rare opportunity to influence China on the issues of human rights and China’s aggressive foreign policy, by signing a uranium export agreement with China. At the same…