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Break out!

We need the maximum number of choices and the best thinking available to continuously surprise our adversaries.

Improving government 1

Many (all?) of our governments appear to have lost the ability to provide efficient and worthwhile services.

Can Rudd keep his moral authority

If Rudd approves the pulp mill, he'll lose his moral authority.

Economic threat to Tasmania from plantations and logging

Government policies replace food with paper

The threat to Tasmania’s vital resources – air, water and food

Tasmania’s scarce food production land is being rapidly eaten up by low value tree plantations.

Taxation without representation

Politicians are taking our taxes to represent us, then refusing to do the job!

The pulping of democracy

Parliament outsources pulp mill approval to a pulp mill supplier

By their fruits shall ye know them (2)

Bureaucrats decide what is acceptable to the rest of us

By their fruits shall ye know them

Incest in the data entry business

Trouble at the Mill, Part 3

Most protective measures require the mill operator to incur higher costs, hence it would be imprudent to leave any aspect of community and industry protection up to the operator, who will constantly strive to cut costs. Who will be accountable if things go wrong for whole industries?