If the carbon-dioxide-induced “global warming” theory were true, we would expect that average temperatures would be increasing across the globe as the level of CO2 in the atmosphere increases. It is not happening. There can be no doubt that CO2 levels in the atmosphere have risen over the past 200 years, from about 250 parts…
In its recently published Trade and Assistance Review 2013-14, the Productivity Commission has questioned the benefit to Australia of the much-touted free trade agreements, pointing out that they have never been subject to proper cost-benefit analyses. The Productivity Commission is a significant influence on government policy, and has traditionally been one of the main drivers…
At the end of 2014, a little over a year after being elected to office, the Abbott Government was in deep trouble. Despite the Government’s undoubted successes in implementing its key commitments of stopping people smugglers from Indonesia, and abolishing the carbon and mining taxes, its budget plan to get Australia back into surplus by…
The default by Greece’s Syriza Government on a €1.5 billion ($2.2 billion) repayment due to the International Monetary Fund by July 1, followed by the referendum which voted overwhelmingly to back the government’s refusal to accept the continuation of the European Union’s austerity program, have triggered Greece’s expected exit from the Eurozone. Alexis Tsipras, left,…
