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The University Trap

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As the university semester begins and students head back to classes for another year, it is worth examining the troubling history and reality of...

Finding common cause with the Greens

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Because politics isn’t meant to be easy In Australia, libertarian candidates are rarely ranked highly on voters’ ballots. Libertarian candidates get first preferences from the small...

The Missing Ingredient – Assimilation

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When Al Grassby was Immigration Minister in the Whitlam government in the early 1970s, he announced that multiculturalism was to be Australia’s future policy....

25 Provocative Predictions For 2024

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With which do you agree or disagree? GOVERNMENT OVERREACH Habeas corpus will not be restored in Australia. The Australian Federal Budget will be in deficit and expenditure...

E-Scooters: A Two Wheeled Burden?

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Since approximately 2016 there has been a rapid increase in personal and for-hire electric scooters (e-scooters) in cities around the world. Over 600 cities...

Part II:Programmable Money

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Two years ago the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Cunliffe, spoke the most sinister sentence I’d heard in a long...

Forum Shopping for Native Title rights

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The Rolling Stones were wrong: you can always get what you want if you are patient and the taxpayer foots the bill.  And if...

China’s Priority Next: Faith or Freedom?

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In my previous article "China 2024 and Beyond", I argued that China, amid its troubles, is in desperate need of a visionary leader akin...

Brave New World Wide Web

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The reverse correlation between the internet’s growing accessibility and its diminishing freedom can only be arrested by changes in user habits Much has been made...

The New UAE Corporate Tax

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is famous for, among other things, zero tax. That ended this year. The UAE now has a 9% tax...

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