Ideas@TheCentre

Ideas@TheCentre is the Centre for Independent Studies' weekly newsletter. Every Friday, Ideas offers short comment pieces on the topics of the day and the state of the world as such. Often light-hearted, but always with a serious message. You can subscribe to Ideas here. The following articles have been published in Ideas over the past years: Slow justice damaging political culture (24 February 2012)   Who needs a car industry anyway? (17 February 2012)  Time to drop the Dick (3 February 2012) Wrong person for a difficult job (27 January 2012) Taking taxpayers for a ride (13 January 2012) Christmas pudding without butter (23 December 2011) World class economy, first class prices (16 December 2011) Incentives are life and death (2 December 2011) Occupy what? (21 October 2011) A growing opportunity for Australia (30 September 2011) Patently absurd (23 September 2011) Ingredients for successful integration (2 September 2011) America and Europe jump together (19 August 2011) Curing insanity with madness (5 August 2011) Stepping in for the PM (29 July 2011) No free speech free zones (22 July 2011) Sending profits abroad is a good thing (1 July 2011) Glamour over substance (17 June 2011) Talk is cheap, everything else is not (3 June 2011) Light bulbs and set top boxes (13 May 2011) Playground stimulus (29 April 2011) Unanswered infrastructure prayers (8 April 2011) Getting the nanny state out of alcohol retail (18 March 2011) Politics is just another beauty contest (11 March 2011) Brown's green jobs to deindustrialise Australia (4 March 2011) The failure of European multiculturalism (11 February 2011) Australia's familiar past (4 February 2011) Civil society did not drown in the floods (21 January 2011) Australia and New Zealand on top – but for how long? (14 January 2011) Europe shows the end game for big government (17 December 2010) New South Winfrey (10 December 2010) Ireland beware its saviours (26 November 2010) Open doors, not webcams (12 November 2010) The same life in 140 characters (29 October 2010) This year’s Nobel Prize: A case of market failure (15 October 2010) That fabled 'Big Australia' (8 October 2010) A Monopoly for our times (1 October 2010) Poverty does not make you happy (24 September 2010) Elect another people? (27 August 2010) Stimulating letter writers (20 August 2010) Big ideas? Or big mistakes? (6 August 2010) Breaking out of the political madhouse (23 July 2010) A small population for our big island? (9 July 2010) Migration lessons from the soccer pitch (18 June 2010) Eurovision diversity beats Euro fallacy (4 June 2010) A simple idea for our ever more complicated bureaucracy (21 May 2010) Cracking taxes (16 April 2010) Canberra, Wii have a problem (26 March 2010) Right concerns, wrong policy (12 March 2010) Lefties too clever by half (5 March 2010) Nuclear's global renaissance (19 February 2010) Strange new world (12 February 2010) While you were power-napping (15 January 2010) Greek tragedy for the world economy (11 December 2009) Hollywood’s intellectual void behind its critical façade (20 November 2009) Australia’s forgotten savers (6 November 2009) First steps towards 21st century rail (30 October 2009) Regulation for regulation’s sake (28 August 2009) Sisters are doing it for themselves (7 August 2009) “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s” (10 July 2009) By their scandals ye shall know them (26 June 2009) Who wants to be a neoliberal? (15 May 2009) Happy Tax Freedom Day! (17 April 2009) Lost in numbers (10 April 2009) Just another Muppet Show (20 March 2009) An end to all lists (6 March 2009) Rational thieves to go out of business (20 February 2009)