Opinion

  • ALP climate unchanged

    Labor speaks loudly on green policy but carries a small stick, writes Mark Latham.

  • When Henry met Fannie

    The Wall Street Journal, August 19.

  • Fannie, Freddie are not failures

    They're not perfect but the US lenders are widely appreciated at home, writes Sam Wylie.

  • Russia and China gain box seats for fuel

    Energy corridors have come under threat, writes Michael Richardson.

  • Chance for OH&S harmony

    The Rudd government's national review of occupational health and safety is the most significant legislative review of Australia's OH&S laws since the adoption of the approach advocated in the UK Robens Report in 1972.

  • Set for pre-emptive action

    It is most unusual for interest rates to be going down when the terms of trade are rising so strongly, writes Huw McKay.

  • NOTEBOOK

    Robert Kagan, The Weekly Standard, August 16.

  • Climate key is uranium exports

    Australia is ignoring an important way to help manage climate change, writes Michael Angwin.

  • New president faces Chinese puzzle

    China is not the country Americans imagine it is and the next president must rise to meet the challenge, writes Henry Paulson.US-China Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED),

  • Gilani's dubious credibility

    The official resignation of Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has calmed the fears of a long, drawn-out impeachment process that would have added to the woes of an already unstable Pakistan

  • Art royalty plan flawed

    The Rudd government's plan to impose a royalty on second-hand art sales is bad policy at every level, writes Tony Harris.

  • NOTEBOOK

    The New York Times, August 16.

  • Let's snub bronze in tax quest

    Australia should stop merely looking to the OECD for reform ideas, writes Robert Carling.

  • Making a profit while doing good

    Australian companies have little to fear and much to gain from an early start to emissions trading, writes Graciela Chichilnisky.

  • The lies we tell ourselves about energy

    Forget about a candid national conversation on energy

  • Echoes of the Cold War

    Russia has given all former Soviet satellites, and the US, a stark reminder that it is the dominant power in its region, writes Geoffrey Barker.

  • America's decline is only relative

    Edward Luttwak, Prospect magazine, August edition

  • A trade deal we must get right

    A free-trade deal with China will bring huge benefits to both sides - if we negotiate well, writes Ross Buckley.

  • Emissions scheme will burn pioneers

    Participants in the voluntary carbon market could be left out in the cold by the new emissions trading scheme, writes John Taberner.

  • Union rule remains the worst option

    The Australian Building and Construction Commission was established following a royal commission on the commercial building industry.

  • Key to reinventing and unifying Europe

    An honourable compromise between the euro zone and Britain could help launch a new era of co-operation

  • Being dirty on neighbours hypocritical

    Australian PFC emissions are almost 75 per cent higher than those at BHP Billiton's smelters in southern Africa.

  • Consumers push house prices back towards median

    Home loan interest rates provide the key to predicting how far house prices will fall.

  • Do as you're told, it's all fun and games in Beijing

    The other day I was watching Stephanie Rice after she won a gold and flashed that big smile that just as happily was plastered on the front pages of nearly every general circulation newspaper in Australia

  • Much more pain to come

    The effects of the credit crunch will be felt for quite some time, writes John Hewson.

  • NOTEBOOK

    James Dorn, Far Eastern Economic Review, August 11.

  • Coalition lets the time factor slip away

    Poor Brendan Nelson

  • G7 economies likely to tip world into recession

    All G7 nations are now in a recession or close to it and policy responses are likely to be too little, too late, writes Nouriel Roubini.

  • Flow-on effects of neglect

    The state of the Murray-Darling system is an indication of the price of ignoring climate change, writes John Quiggin.

  • NOTEBOOK

    James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, August 28.

RTC model

The US appears to be putting its houses - Fannie and Freddie - in order, writes Glenn Mumford.