Contrary to expectations, there has not been a dramatic shortage in the production of coffee, and predictions of $5 lattes were wildly exaggerated.
Data retention is central to the government's crackdown on filesharing -- illustrating how its war on the internet is driven by commercial interests.
Overseas experience shows copyright notice schemes don't work -- but they do cost consumers money.
Long in the making, the Murray inquiry is a worthy successor to previous financial sector inquiries, and Joe Hockey deserves credit for it.
In calling for an end to SMSF borrowing, the Murray Inquiry has given the government a headache over a sector that is part of the Liberal constituency, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
Falling commodity prices and even bond rates will undermine the government's budget planning, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.
Nuclear power is a ludicrously uneconomic industry and now more than ever. But conservatives continue to obsess over it.
Weakening growth won't shift the Reserve Bank's thinking on interest rates as much as the strength of the dollar and how the Chinese property market fares, write Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane.
The successful sale of Medibank Private was important to show voters that privatisation can be better than it has been so often in the past.
Critics of the ABC board's decision on spending cuts think the ABC can be both national and efficient, when it can't be both at once.
