Category Archives: Public Policy

Two cheers for Westminster (or why President Obama won’t be able to change much at all)

June 5, 2008 – 11:51 pm

Barack Obama has campaigned thus far on a strong platform of ‘change’. On one level, he’s been very unspecific; on another he has deliberately sought to be less partisan in his message, trying to include more people in his vision. His most pointed and intelligent criticisms of current political practice focus on the partisan divide [...]

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Guest post by Sinclair Davidson - Kevin Rudd, 20/20 and Tony Blair

April 20, 2008 – 10:16 pm

Sinclair very kindly left this in the comments, and it’s so timely I thought it deserved a post of its own. I’m watching this process from Blairland utterly aghast, even though a week after Rudd was elected I could ‘detect the Blair’ and was warning accordingly. Blair’s nanny-statism is slowly collapsing in on him, but [...]

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Opting out of Welfare

December 27, 2006 – 9:55 pm

I’m not usually a huge fan of internet humour, but this piece has been doing the rounds of the interwebs for a while; this version actually came to me via Liberal Democratic Party treasurer David Leyonhjelm, who (apart from sending the funny) also let me know that Peter Saunders (CIS) has recently suggested that the [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in Economics, Politics | Comments (130)