Praise with caveats

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Gary Scarrabelotti

It’s a bit rich – and not very tactically savvy – to be putting the boot into Chris Bowen.

By Gary Scarrabelotti

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Groupthink Australia and the China problem

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Gary Scarrabelotti

How far can a very big, technologically leading-edge corporation preserve its independence, even if privately owned, in a Leninist political set up?

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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Welfare morality

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Lyle Dunne

Our welfare system is a byzantine complex of redistributive arrangements whose total effect nobody understands.

By Lyle Dunne

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Global good guy in want of survival skills

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Gary Scarrabelotti

If we want to beat the people smugglers, we need cojones more than we need neighbours.

By Gary Scarrabelotti*

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Changing boats

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Lyle Dunne

The Houston report on refuge policy could be a watershed.

By Lyle Dunne

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