It’s time to let the government into our pantriesThe obesity epidemic is costing Australia $8.3 billion a year, and the death toll continues to rise. Self-regulation has failed, says Michael Smith: it’s time to embrace the nanny state.
Nanny state
Rumours of the nanny state’s demise greatly exaggerated
Tony Abbott was punching below weight last night and was, as one observer noted, showing all the symptoms of the “depression of opposition”, writes Melissa Sweet.
Election promises be damned, Rudd must abandon populism
Kevin Rudd promised that Labor’s decisions on policy would be “evidence based”, but the evidence belies that so far, writes Mark Bahnisch.
