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Memo to Tracey Spicer regarding her put-your-brain-into-gear-before-opening-your-mouth advice for Mark Webber (The Courier-Mail, March 30): mocking laws and regulations doesn’t mean one wants a lawless world of chaos; it is about trying to have us see that rules, however well-intentioned, … Continue reading →

Last year was surely an annus horribilis for infrastructure. Late trains, blackouts, suicide, toll-road dramas and, of course, further consternation over telecommunications. Does the New Year offer any hope? It’s not too encouraging. We appear to be at a policy … Continue reading →

Take Time Before Judging God On Line Opinion e-Journal Article

Regulators are the same as marriage counsellors. They cannot create anything positive – only facilitate others doing it for themselves. Relying on them is a sure sign of failure. Such realisations are sorely lacking in the current debate over solutions … Continue reading →

The Big Questions – Aussie Values: Life and Death On Line Opinion e-Journal Article

Grain Of Politics In Regulation On Line Opinion e-Journal Article

The proposed Industrial Relations reforms have become an electoral liability because John Howard lacks a sense of irony. The core proposition of our successful program of economic reform over the last two decades is that protection – whether via tariffs, … Continue reading →

According to Ted Lapkin (Perspectives, January 27), Steven Spielberg believes “dead bodies are the same, and self-defence is no excuse” when it comes to terrorism, most especially of the Israeli-Palestinian kind. He’s only half right about the filmmaker’s latest, beautifully … Continue reading →

Women and their questions can be a frightening experience. Sitting there with TV remote in hand, defenseless, when suddenly you cop a “Don’t you love me, honey?” Later, you may react slowly to news that a friend has breast cancer. … Continue reading →

Another Labour Day Barbie – another missed opportunity for the Aussie male to confront life’s lofty questions. Writing in a Sydney newspaper recently, John Howard proffered that “an essential task of political leaders is to outline priorities and to identify … Continue reading →