National

What Australians think … by the BBC’s Sydney correspondent

Having recently decried the over-reliance of polling and focus groups in Australian political life (polls here are not so much pseudo news...

Gillard defiant as poll numbers slip again

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she will not back away from her plan to price carbon despite a new opinion poll showing...

Tasmania and School Retention Rates. Unfair treatment in a mainland education broadsheet

Tasmania gets front page treatment in the June 2011 issue of Education Review. Tasmania’s education system is, if the hype is to...

Georges River: the ABC apology is ridiculous

It is eleven months since the then Premier of Tasmania, David Bartlett decided to officially complain to ABC management about a two-part...

Gunns: Vale Auspine

A history of Gunns undoubtedly will contain a chapter on the Auspine debacle, now edging closer to finality. The latest ASX announcement...

Why has Aprin got its hand out?

Here we go again. How many times are we supposed to compensate the industry and subsidise them for the same thing. The...

Dr Judith Ajani: The truth about the ‘mollycoddled’ forestry industry

Geraldine Doogue: But first to a bold challenge to one of our public industries. Get off the public purse once and for...

How to get your piece of the $2 billion pie

Nuclear power: “uneconomic and unnecessary”

For four decades we have known modern energy systems could threaten civilisation in two ways—climate change and nuclear proliferation—so we must reject...

Live Cattle Export – the industry view

Since the airing of the Four Corners program dealing with live exports of Australian cattle to Indonesia, there has been a wave...