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. […]
Satire
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. […]
Ideas@TheCentre
“Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and to God the things that are God’s”
The Catholic Church has long put the obstacle of the advocatus diaboli in the path of sainthood – someone who argues the devil’s case against the canonisation of a prospective saint. What the Catholic Church had not yet introduced, though, was an advocatus Australiae, an Australian gate opener to heaven. […]
Ideas@TheCentre
Lost in numbers
A billion here, a billion there, and soon we’re talking about real money. But how could we make the money figures our politicians are throwing around more comprehensible? […]
Ideas@TheCentre
An end to all lists
What a miserable place Australia must be if it finds itself behind a bankrupt economy and a country left ungovernable by the financial crisis. However, we may feel a bit better because Australia did not need to be bailed out by the IMF, nor did our capital cities see rallies of angry citizens which recently brought Dublin to a standstill. […]