The spread of foot and mouth to Britain stands as a salutary lesson to those inside and outside the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) who have been pressing for a relaxation of our strict quarantine regime. It raises serious questions about the AQIS decision to allow uncooked Danish pork into Australia, some of which…
Thomas Bradley believes the Queensland Nationals had surrendered to One Nation before an electoral shot was fired. Their equivocation weakened their position and helped to create a bridge over which a large number of Coalition voters moved – not to One Nation, but to the ALP. The recent Queensland State Election involved a number of…
The state of California, which deregulated its power industry using a model remarkably similar to that implemented by the Kennett Government in Victoria, has been left with both a power crisis and the bankruptcy of its power utilities, which could seriously damage the US economy. California’s Governor, Gray Davis, was forced to declare a state…
The inauguration of George W. Bush as US President marks the return of the Republican Party to the White House after the eight year Clinton interlude which history will judge to be the years when a ’60s Generation playboy ran the most powerful country in the world. While President Bush’s critics point to the fact…
Colin Teese, former Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, warns against moves to overturn our stringent quarantine regulations in the name of free trade. Matters associated with quarantine are in the news, in particular, the circumstances under which imports are permitted of plants, animals and fish from countries where such items carry transmissible diseases,…
Colin Teese, formerly Deputy Secretary of the Department of Trade, believes governments are being disingenuous when criticising OPEC for rising oil prices. All it takes is a good old fashioned crisis, or perceived crisis, to shift the focus of world leaders. When the G7 (the regular get-together of the world’s seven largest economies) meets this…