by John Spoehr | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
Partnerships, privatisation & the public interest”Six years ago, we were looking at returns of 15 per cent, now we are looking at 10 or 12 per cent, because the market is expanding and maturing. But then again, 12 per cent is not a bad return these...
by Lionel Orchard | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
Democracy ‘You know it never has been easyWhether you do or you do not resignWhether you travel the breadth of extremitiesOr stick to some straighter line.’- Joni Mitchell, ‘Hejira’ (1976) SOCIAL change in the modern world is an...
by Al Gore | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
Like all Americans I have been wrestling with the question of what our country needs to do to defend itself from the kind of intense, focused and enabled hatred that brought about September 11th, and which at this moment must be presumed to be gathering force for yet...
by Phillip Knightley | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
The roots of revoltBefore Tony Blair joins the new crusaders trying to impose a “regime change”, a Western “settlement” on Iraq, he should at least look at the historical facts that explain the rise of nationalist leaders such as Saddam...
by Craig Emerson | Nov 14, 2002 | Papers
A triumph of prejudice over policy Australia’s 11th successive trade deficit, the worst in two years, ought to be sounding alarm bells in the Prime Minister’s office. That it is not, smacks of the smugness and complacency of the Howard government....
by Fred Argy | Nov 2, 2002 | Papers
Why fiscal surpluses?The claim is often made that governments which run structural budget surpluses, and achieve this goal through expenditure restraint, are better economic managers than those which run structural deficits. In fact structural surpluses can often...
