Category Archives: Guest Post

Guest Post: Tintarella di Luna – Compassion auctions demean people with disabilities and their families

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Essentially Ms Gillard’s compassion auctions with the states on the NDIS has her claiming ownership of a Scheme for which she hasn’t paid. In parliament last week, a display of confected emotion and overacting by Ms Gillard shows her complete … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Bob Whitaker – Reflections on the Fall

Posted on April 25, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Saigon fell on 30th April 1975. At that time, five years after returning from Vietnam, I was teaching at the Xavier Hospital School, in Coorparoo, on Brisbane’s South side. My class was composed of children with severe conditions (such as … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: JC – How I recall Maggie Thatcher

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

The Day (actually the evening) Maggie hoed into me and leaving me speechless) In 1997 or 1998, the banking firm I worked for decided to spend a few bucks on a client dinner inviting Maggie Thatcher as the guest speaker. … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Andrew Scobie – An ideological rant

Posted on March 25, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Sitting on my second coffee of the morning I imagined feelings of empathy for Marx and his deluded masses of future eaters. Only true believers can destroy the nation’s capital base, our human capital, and their own self-worth while grimly … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Fisky – The Fisk Doctrine explained

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

We all know how the Gillard government and the Greens hate free speech. From seeking to ban ‘insults’, to proposing new media controls, to supporting the Bolt inquisition, this has been the most anti-free speech government for decades. What is … Continue reading →

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Guest Post – Mk50: European Fascism Redux

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

[Update: sdog suggests this post is very similar to an article at the American Thinker. Mk50's response is here. Several others have provided additional speculation and commentary. In the meantime I have emailed Mk50. Sinc. Update II: Mk 50 provides … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Post, International | 359 Comments

Guest Post – Stephen Dawson: How a Tobacco Decision Turned Tax Free Petrol into Subsidised Petrol

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Sinclair Davidson (‘Public finance and bureaucratic convenience’) notes that through the passage of time what was once a kind of road-user-pays fee on diesel morphed into a subsidy. But that’s not the only thing to have done so. Because, of … Continue reading →

Posted in Economics and economy, Guest Post, Taxation | 13 Comments

Cross Post: Simon Breheny – The draft Bill that can’t be cured

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon’s back down is a welcome development in the debate over the government’s anti-discrimination proposal. But it falls well short of what is needed – the complete abandonment of this ill-conceived consolidation project. Roxon has announced that the phrase “offends, … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Christianity and free markets against slavery

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

[This post is taken from the IPA and Mannkal Economic Education Foundation's Foundations of Western Civilisation Program. It is very good and deserves wide exposure.] Almost every civilisation has had slavery at one time in their past. Two recent, and … Continue reading →

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Guest Post: Dover_Beach – Limited Government requires defending the conjugal view of marriage

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Sinclair Davidson

The idea that limited government would be furthered by the state removing itself from the marriage ‘business’ is often made in these parts. This is appealing to many but the grounds for its appeal are only superficial. In a recent … Continue reading →

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