Ideas@TheCentre
Regulation for regulation’s sake
Regulation is supposed to encourage good behaviour and control it to maximise the public good. But regulation has become an entity unto itself.
Month: August 2009
Sydney Morning Herald
Say it like you mean it, we love a bold leader
The public is thirsting for political leaders who dare to speak their minds. If only Australian politics would produce someone like the young German economics minister, our political debates would become infinitely more interesting. And Kevin Rudd would finally have a real reason to be afraid of ideologues.
Ideas@TheCentre
Sisters are doing it for themselves
There is only one place on earth where a man’s world is still as it should be, and that’s Russia. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has just released pictures showing him shirtless on a horseback, making fire by a lake and relaxing in a tree. As his steely blue eyes were gazing into the Siberian sky, nobody would have dared to tell the muscular ex-KGB man that men couldn’t be left to run things on their own.