Publication List July 13th, 2005
“Politics and the top cop” The Age, 9 Nov, 2008
“Clamp on conflict of interest may hobble sound judgement” The Age, 27 Oct, 2008
“Why greed’s just too small a word to hang a crisis on” The Age, 12 Oct, 2008
“Where’s the local goodwill when it comes to rates?” The Age, 28 Sep, 2008
“Get off the turps: idiots are the problem, not alcohol” The Age, 14 Sep, 2008
“City car levy is just another taxing burden” The Age, 31 Aug, 2008
“Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s challenging legacy“, IPA Review, Sept 2008
“Emissions Trading: Towards the biggest economic change in Australian history“, (with Alan Moran) IPA Review, Sept 2008
“Battling green noise” The Age, 17 Aug, 2008
“Memo Starbucks: next time try selling ice to Eskimos” The Age, 4 Aug, 2008
“Connies a nostalgic symbol of lost community spirit” The Age, 20 July, 2008
“Protecting kids from TV swearing is not Canberra’s job” The Age, 6 July, 2008
“Have bad movies edged out good?“, IPA Review, July 2008
“Politics, not sport, is the purpose of the Olympics“, IPA Review, July 2008
“Regulation and the Regulatory Burden” Quadrant, June 2008
“Free speech means the right to obscene speech, too” The Age, 1 Jun, 2008
“Not fascist at all” Overland 191, May, 2008
“Don’t strangle communication networks” The Australian, 19 May, 2008
“Don’t close the door on our envied bar culture” The Age, 18 May, 2008
“Put a cork in it, Mr Rudd - you’re missing the point” The Age, 4 May, 2008
“The patriot Games” The Age, 20 Apr, 2008
“Come on, Aunty, time to work out where you’re at” The Age, 6 Apr, 2008
“Nanny state ad bans won’t stop kids liking junk food” The Age, 23 Mar, 2008
“Pedestal to the metal” The Age, 9 Mar, 2008
“Set traps for rats in the ranks” The Australian, 5 Mar, 2008
The Growth of Australia’s Regulatory State: Ideology, Accountability, and the Mega-Regulators, Institute of Public Affairs, 2008
“One for the country - hardly a bonus to build on” The Age, 25 Feb, 2008
“What ‘fascist mob’? Overland and the IPA” IPA Review, March 2008
“Ilf and Petrov’s excellent adventure” (book review) IPA Review, March 2008
“20 years reveals gigantic strides in international trade” IPA Review, March 2008
“Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian movies” IPA Review, March 2008
“Rudd’s super summit puts the con into consensus” The Age, 10 Feb, 2008
“Isn’t all this talk of an apocalypse getting a bit boring?” The Age, 27 Jan, 2008
“What next? Liberalism after the Howard government” IPA Review, January 2008
“Next time you sip a latte, look beyond the feel-good choice” The Age, 6 Jan, 2008
“Tackling obesity - should the public pay?” The Age, 6 Jan, 2008
“Christmas buying is full of spirit” The Age, 23 Dec, 2007
“Strangled by regulation” Business Spectator, 20 Dec, 2007
“Review of ‘The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900′” Policy Magazine, Summer, 2007-08
“Stars in the net sky” The Age, 16 Dec, 2007
“Where the Liberals went wrong” Geelong Advertiser, 13 Dec, 2007
“Fame game filling our need for celebrities” The Age, 2 Dec, 2007
“No street cred for council party poopers” The Age, 25 Nov, 2007
“Policy without Parliament: the growth of regulation in Australia” IPA Backgrounder, Vol 19/3, November 2007
“Religious right? Have a little faith in the process” The Age, 11 Nov, 2007
“Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 election” IPA Review, October 2007
“A disgusting history of England” (book review) IPA Review, October 2007
“While you weren’t looking, freedom went up in smoke” The Age, 28 Oct, 2007
“Che chic: you’ve ignored the horrors, now buy the T-shirt” The Age, 14 Oct, 2007
“Broadband: another telco monopoly would be a disaster” Crikey Daily Email, 11 Oct, 2007
“Telco industry’s ‘red tape’ burden unfair” ABC News Online, 2 Oct, 2007
“Film classification laws out of sync with the 21st century” (with Tim Wilson) The Age, 1 Oct, 2007
“No need for local films on public purse” The Age, 30 Sep, 2007
“The slippery slope towards internet censorship continues” Crikey Daily Email, 21 Sep, 2007
“Better to be alert than NetAlarmed” The Age, 16 Sept, 2007
“Dealing with that $30,000 phone bill - without regulation” Crikey Daily Email, 3 Sep, 2007
“Society rhetoric just a pulp fiction” The Age, 2 Sept, 2007
“Cracking Coonan’s filter and other tech wrecks” Crikey Daily Email, 27 Aug, 2007
“Broadband projects an embarrassing, expensive failure” Crikey Daily Email, 22 Aug, 2007
“The value of secrets to pollies and journos” Crikey Daily Email, 16 Aug, 2007
“Laws against concentrated media ownership hurt, rather than help” Crikey Daily Email, 14 Aug, 2007
“Monitoring porn: not the government’s responsibility” Crikey Daily Email, 10 Aug, 2007
“Is Aunty’s strength a net gain?” The Australian, 7 Aug, 2007
“The regulatory state’s democracy problem“, IPA Review, July 2007
“Libertarian ascendancy” (book review) IPA Review, July 2007
“Big Brother vs. Big Brother: How politicians failed to understand reality television and in their confusion instead decided to regulate the internet” (with Hugh Tobin) IPA Review, July 2007
“Hands off software, Samuel” Australian Financial Review, 17 Jul 2007
“On telecoms, regulator chuting blanks” (with Alan Moran) The Age, 28 Jun 2007
“Media faces an unsentimental future” The Age, 8 Jun, 2007
“When reform has no bang and barely a whimper“ Online Opinion, 11 May 2007
“Islam’s free market heritage” (with Andrew Kemp) IPA Review, Mar 2007
“Inventing market failure” Communications Day, 18 Mar 2007
“Aunty will be proud of Maxine’s candidacy” The Australian, 27 Feb 2007
“Waving goodbye? Fans will decide” The Age, 4 Feb 2007
“The ramifications of dobbing for Australians” The Age, 20 Jan 2007
Thumping the Table: Key Questions for the Labor Party’s Industry Policy’ (with Sinclair Davidson), January 2007
“Broadband internet: getting the framework right” Online Opinion, 4 January, 2007
“Software design by competition law” IPA Review, December 2006
“The other flurry of media mergers” IPA Review, December 2006
“Containers and their enemies” (book review) IPA Review, December 2006
“Lucky Australia hasn’t avoided mistakes“, Perspective, 30 November, 2006
“No umpire needed in sport media“, The Age, 29 November, 2006
“No net gain in Beattie plan“, Courier Mail, 27 October, 2006
“Media-rule horse has bolted“, Australian Financial Review, 12 October, 2006
“In search of Smith’s legacy” (book review) IPA Review, October 2006
Submission to the Inquiry into the Broadcasting Services Amendment (Media Ownership) Bill 2006, September, 2006
“Move them out to move us on” The Age, 24 September, 2006
“It’s consistent at least” The Australian (letter), 15 September, 2006
“Only the market can properly reshape the media“, Australian Financial Review, 15 September, 2006
“Scandinavian Idol” IPA Review, July 2006
“Regulator should butt out on fibre-optic broadband“, Australian Financial Review, 7 July, 2006
“You are what you chose to eat“, The Age, 1 July, 2006
“Market the massage, not the media moguls“, The Age, 27 June 2006
‘Why the “save the internet” coalition is wrong’ Crikey Daily Email, 15 June 2006
Submission to Future use of unassigned television channels, April 2006
Submission to Meeting the Digital Challenge, April 2006
“Media regulations need massive, radical reform, not minor tweaking” IPA Review, April 2006
“Halters on Google for Now” (letter) Australian Financial Review, 9 February 2006
“Vi@gr@ $old h^r^: Is your annoyance our problem?” (PDF) IPA Review, December 2005
“ACCC paying lip-service to innovation” (letter) Australian Financial Review, 22 October 2005
“The Net is anarchy: keep it that way“, The Age, 24 October 2005
“Dancing on the grave of employment” (Book review) IPA Review, September 2005
“Can we remove the ban on mobiles in planes without killing each other?” (PDF) IPA Review, September 2005
“Splitting Telstra is not the right move” Australian Financial Review, 22 Aug, 2005
Submission to the Review of the operations of the Gene Technology Act 2000 (PDF) (with Alan Moran and Mike Nahan) July 2005
“Why do drug dealers live with their mums?” (Book Review) IPA Review, June 2005
“Myths of the Corporate Media” IPA Review, June 2005
“The Debate: Should campaign spending be capped after Malcolm Turnbull’s $600,000 Wentworth win? (no)“ The Daily Telegraph. March 31, 2005
“Property, Pornography and Free Enterprise: A Telecommunications Policy for the 21st Century” (PDF) Protege, March 2005
“Wake Up, They’re Misleading You: The Media’s Climate Change Propaganda“ (with Andrew McIntyre), IPA Review, March 2005
Impact and Outcome of Regulation on the Economy (with Alan Moran, Michael Warby, Jennifer Marohasy, Jim Hoggett, Ken Philips) February 2005
“ACCC should be good sports” (letter) Australian Financial Review, 8 February 2005
“There can never be too much sport, Mr Samuel” The Age, 28 January 2005
“Telstra’s Regulatory Waltz” (letter) Australian Financial Review, 18 October 2004
Submission to the Productivity Commission’s Review of National Competition Policy Reforms (with Alan Moran, Jim Hoggett & Ken Phillips), December 2004
“The Revolution in Telecommunications“, IPA Review, December 2004
Unpublished
On David Marr’s Quarterly Essay ‘His Master’s voice: The corruption of public debate under Howard’, Aug 2007
Unpublished Undergraduate Thesis “The Biggest Giveaway in the History of the Nationâ: A Legislative History of the 1962 Communications Satellite Act.” The University of Melbourne, Parkville, 2004

