How To Achieve Free Market Success in Australia
It is a sad fact that the state of liberty in Australia is in a rather sorry shape. The size and scope of government is consistently increasing, our economic and social freedoms are shrinking, and there is no respite in sight. There can be no denying that freedom is on the retreat.
Yet why is this? Our think tanks are world-class. We have many believers of small government in state and federal parliaments (albeit somewhat hidden in the closet), and youth political organisations like the ALSF are completely onside. Why, by any objective standard, have we failed?
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Catallaxy Files- Open Forum September 11, 2010
- Warming to the TaskI went along yesterday to see Alan Moran in the Lion’s Den. Well, not really a lion’s den; more like an opportunity to form a circular firing squad with everyone shooting at the only person in the room trying to tell them that they are asking for $500+ electricity bills with all other prices scaled [...]
- Ongoing shocks around ChristchurchA scary map that show the battering that Christchurch has continued to suffer since the first big shock. The figure in the first column appears to be the strength on the Richter scale. Courtesy of Barry Williams of the Ausralian Skeptics.
- Andrew Norton
- Skills matching for recent graduatesAndrew Carr asks if I can compare the skills mismatch of international and local students. To re-cap, a study of former overseas student migrants in 2006 found that: 18 months after their arrival found the skills match for former overseas students at the following levels: accounting 35%, business/commerce 5%, education 31%, engineering 23%, IT 35%, [...]
- Should the government change migration laws to suit universities?Australia’s universities are in a bit of a panic. With international student applications down, and much bigger drops in the ‘feeder’ colleges, the next few years are looking particularly grim. While issues such as the high dollar, student safety and more intense competition for even-more broke universities in the UK and US are affecting th […]
- Australia’s still surprisingly secure workersThe ABS released their labour mobility survey yesterday, and as I predicted two years ago Labor’s legislated job security provisions, which took effect about five months into the survey, did not stop retrenchments going up. 3.7% of workers who were employed in the year to February 2010 were retrenched, compared to 1.8% under WorkChoices in [...]
- Skills matching for recent graduates
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