Opinion & Commentary
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Graduates can afford to top up funding
In higher education, the key issue of funding rate per student remains unresolved.... Read More
A small Australia limits our creativity
To advocate a small Australia is to deny the opportunities for economic, scientific and cultural advance that can flow from great concentrations of people and their inexhaustible reserves of creative potential,...... Read More
Tax policy devised by party that is green with envy
Redistributing wealth rather than creating it seems to be the Greens' approach, says Robert Carling in The Australian, 3 September 2010.... Read More
If only China were more like Japan
China is heading toward a Japanese-style economic debacle and that the process won’t be as gradual or peaceful, says John Lee in Business Week, 1 September 2010.... Read More
Little Gungaleeda girl: a preventable tragedy
The death of the 'little Gungaleeda girl' is a tragic outcome of poorly resourced medical care in remote Indigenous communities, says Sara Hudson on The Drum, 1 September 2010.... Read More
In search of that last small step
In abolishing controls on higher education student numbers, the two parties are coming very close to a reform that combines choice and fairness, says Andrew Norton in The Age, 31 August 2010.... Read More
Australians hung-over post election
New Zealander politicians can draw a couple of lessons from the Australian election, says Luke Malpass in the Sunday Star Times, 29 August 2010.... Read More
Hospital boards trump bureaucracy
There are clear differences in the way the government and opposition will organise public health administration yet health policy did not receive the attention in deserved during the federal election campaign,...... Read More
A World Away
While candidates in the federal election sidestepped foreign policy for the sake of a few marginal seats, Australians as a whole are more interested in the world than they are given credit for, says John...... Read More
What China's huge traffic jam reveals
The traffic jam in China gives us some insight into a number of things that are good and bad about how China actually works today, says John Lee in Business Spectator, 27 August 2010.... Read More
Aussie election offers Key a warning
There is a grave warning for John Key's National Party in the result of the Australia federal election, says Luke Malpass in The National Business Review, 27 August 2010.... Read More
The perils of multi-party Australia
It may be nerve-wrecking for the Australian public to watch the negotiations between the parties and the independents in the wake of the federal election but other countries have managed and are managing...... Read More
Putting a case for fee deregulation
On the key issue of funding per student, Julia Gillard's legacy as education minister is uncertain, says Andrew Norton in The Australian, 25 August 2010.... Read More
China's Water Grab
Forget the South China Sea. If America really cares about strengthening its presence in Asia, it’ll focus on the Mekong River instead, says John Lee in Foreign Policy, 24 August 2010.... Read More
Australia's real challenge is population ageing
We need a mature debate on population growth, says Jessica Brown in The Age (Business), 23 August 2010... Read More
City got big but never grew up
A little bit of Sydney history illustrates the point that transport, infrastructure and other problems have nothing to do with the level of the population, but how well we handle the challenges that accompany...... Read More
Grave euro doubts remain
Experts have now shifted their attention to the US dollar. However, this does not mean that the euro is off the hook, says Oliver Marc Hartwich in Business Spectator, 19 August 2010.... Read More
The Italian omen
Is everything back to normal for Europe? Was the European crisis just a storm in a teacup? Asks Oliver Marc Hartwich in Business Spectator, 12 August 2010.... Read More
What's missing from the population debate
To seriously meet the challenges of population growth, we first need to deal with some problems with the functioning of our federation, argues Jessica Brown in Business Spectator, 12 August 2010.... Read More
A dose of reality: public health problems need private solutions
It is imperative to acknowledge the limits of publicly funded healthcare, says Jeremy Sammut in The Australian, 6 August 2010.... Read More
