PERTH — An election in Western Australia is certain within the next 12 months, maybe even within the next three, and another Labor loss seems likely. The release of Labor's state industrial relations policy won't delay the
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Farmers were among the prime targets of the propaganda of economic rationalism. Many were persuaded of the view that tariffs imposed onerous burdens on the agricultural sector, and that the adoption of economic rationalism (and
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Farmers, the National Farmers' Federation (NFF) and other farmer bureaucracies have spent the past 20 years resolutely promoting economic rationalism, which they saw as the gateway to financial salvation. What they so
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PERTH - The biotechnology park at Coogee here is part of a larger development (Port Catherine) which is going ahead nicely. However, the core of the biotechnology aspect of the park is the large abattoir currently operated by the
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PERTH — Following the WA Liberal/National Party accession to power, Premier Richard Court announced that one Les McCarrey would conduct an "Independent Commission to Review Public Sector Finances". He was "assisted" by three
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Job creation has been given nothing like the attention that it deserves. No green/democratic/socialist political force will seriously threaten the conservative parties until we can offer credible economic policies to the
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Re-regulation of the financial system will be necessary if the problems associated with financial speculation, mismanagement and the concentration of the banks are to be overcome. For instance, to cater for different community
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Until the early 1970s, the system of financial regulation relied largely on controls on banks' freedom to manipulate their assets and liabilities, through regulation of interest rates, the purposes for which money was lent and
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PERTH — Premier Carmen Lawrence's recent announcement that 40-49%. of the Rural and Industries Bank is to be flogged off is a familiar litany — privatisation of profit, socialisation of cost. Although Lawrence's statement