Ben Brooks ("Monarchism is not about being conservative", February 1) aptly contrasts constant republican failure to debate such a change at an intellectual level, and on the modern issues actually involved.
It is ironic that the banks throw credit card facilities at people but can not provide sensible small-business banking arrangements.
Richard Denniss has served the Australian public interest well in his column in The Australian Financial Review "Lipstick on an economic model", (January 27). Doubts do exist regarding pleas from the business community for reductions in corporate taxation. Although they might incentivise, will such cuts lead to investments in expanded operations and research and development within, say, one year of becoming law? Presumably such planned projects, where they exist, indicate favourable returns in investment and stand up to a recent positive cost benefit analysis. They should be "shovel-ready", after all, these pleas for reductions in corporate taxation have been repeatedly made over many years.
Senator Dean Smith's article on private health insurance presents a view of prostheses pricing that is simply not correct ("Soviet way boosts health costs", January 25). The regulation of the Prostheses List has its genesis in 1985, when health funds would not leave clinical choice of prostheses to specialist surgeons.
It is as if the republicans were marching down the street saying, "We want a republic, but we haven't the foggiest idea what sort of republic we want". Surely they should first work out what precisely they want and why this would improve the governance of Australia.
Has the multiculturalism that united us as Australians been hijacked by a leftist agenda of cultural apartheid, which will divide us?
The past week has been marked by typical summer conditions across Australia, with most large cities recording temperatures in the mid-30s an...
The headline on Jared Lynch's article "Chinese worries hit Australia's hot exports of infant formula " distorts the reality of infant formul...
Senator Abetz says NSW Liberal Party overhaul is critical ("NSW Liberal Party overhaul 'mission critical'", January 19).
I agree with the editorial that GST needs to be broadened and increased ("Time to be bold on tax reform", AFR, January 19). Land tax needs t...
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