Examines the ABC’s coverage of Australia’s energy choices.

Executive summary: Behavioural taxes are taxes that are designed to influence behaviour against consumption. The application of behavioural taxes is fundamentally illiberal. They interfere with the rights and freedoms of individuals to make choices about their own consumption. Behavioural taxes generally take the form of excise taxes. Australia has a complicated and inconsistent form of...

This paper presents estimates for economic freedom rankings of the six Australian states. Introduction Economic freedom, or the ability of individuals to justly and non-coercively acquire, use and dispose of property as they each see fit, has long represented an animating principle of Western societies. The experience of history, and not to mention empirical studies...

This report argues that government-funded health lobbying is leading to increased regulation of any behaviour deemed detrimental to health. Executive summary: Public health policy has broadened from traditionally indiscriminate and/or communicable risks to the health of the population toward discriminate and/or non-communicable risks to the health of the population. The broadened definition has created a...