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Publication List July 13th, 2005

Politics and the top copThe Age, 9 Nov, 2008

Clamp on conflict of interest may hobble sound judgementThe Age, 27 Oct, 2008

Why greed’s just too small a word to hang a crisis onThe 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 alcoholThe Age, 14 Sep, 2008

City car levy is just another taxing burdenThe 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 noiseThe Age, 17 Aug, 2008

Memo Starbucks: next time try selling ice to EskimosThe Age, 4 Aug, 2008

Connies a nostalgic symbol of lost community spiritThe Age, 20 July, 2008

Protecting kids from TV swearing is not Canberra’s jobThe 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 BurdenQuadrant, June 2008

Free speech means the right to obscene speech, tooThe Age, 1 Jun, 2008

Not fascist at allOverland 191, May, 2008

Don’t strangle communication networksThe Australian, 19 May, 2008

Don’t close the door on our envied bar cultureThe Age, 18 May, 2008

Put a cork in it, Mr Rudd - you’re missing the pointThe Age, 4 May, 2008

The patriot GamesThe Age, 20 Apr, 2008

Come on, Aunty, time to work out where you’re atThe Age, 6 Apr, 2008

Nanny state ad bans won’t stop kids liking junk foodThe Age, 23 Mar, 2008

Pedestal to the metalThe Age, 9 Mar, 2008

Set traps for rats in the ranksThe 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 onThe Age, 25 Feb, 2008

What ‘fascist mob’? Overland and the IPAIPA Review, March 2008

Ilf and Petrov’s excellent adventure” (book review) IPA Review, March 2008

20 years reveals gigantic strides in international tradeIPA Review, March 2008

Goddamn you all to hell: The revealing politics of dystopian moviesIPA Review, March 2008

Rudd’s super summit puts the con into consensusThe 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 governmentIPA Review, January 2008

Next time you sip a latte, look beyond the feel-good choiceThe Age, 6 Jan, 2008

Tackling obesity - should the public pay?The Age, 6 Jan, 2008

Christmas buying is full of spiritThe Age, 23 Dec, 2007

Strangled by regulationBusiness 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 skyThe Age, 16 Dec, 2007

Where the Liberals went wrongGeelong Advertiser, 13 Dec, 2007

Fame game filling our need for celebritiesThe Age, 2 Dec, 2007

No street cred for council party poopersThe Age, 25 Nov, 2007

Policy without Parliament: the growth of regulation in AustraliaIPA Backgrounder, Vol 19/3, November 2007

Religious right? Have a little faith in the processThe Age, 11 Nov, 2007

Regretting privatisation: broadband and the 2007 electionIPA Review, October 2007

A disgusting history of England” (book review) IPA Review, October 2007

While you weren’t looking, freedom went up in smokeThe Age, 28 Oct, 2007

Che chic: you’ve ignored the horrors, now buy the T-shirtThe Age, 14 Oct, 2007

Broadband: another telco monopoly would be a disasterCrikey Daily Email, 11 Oct, 2007

Telco industry’s ‘red tape’ burden unfairABC 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 purseThe Age, 30 Sep, 2007

The slippery slope towards internet censorship continuesCrikey Daily Email, 21 Sep, 2007

Better to be alert than NetAlarmedThe Age, 16 Sept, 2007

Dealing with that $30,000 phone bill - without regulationCrikey Daily Email, 3 Sep, 2007

Society rhetoric just a pulp fictionThe Age, 2 Sept, 2007

Cracking Coonan’s filter and other tech wrecksCrikey Daily Email, 27 Aug, 2007

Broadband projects an embarrassing, expensive failureCrikey Daily Email, 22 Aug, 2007

The value of secrets to pollies and journosCrikey Daily Email, 16 Aug, 2007

Laws against concentrated media ownership hurt, rather than helpCrikey Daily Email, 14 Aug, 2007

Monitoring porn: not the government’s responsibilityCrikey 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, SamuelAustralian Financial Review, 17 Jul 2007

On telecoms, regulator chuting blanks” (with Alan Moran) The Age, 28 Jun 2007

Media faces an unsentimental futureThe 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 failureCommunications Day, 18 Mar 2007

Aunty will be proud of Maxine’s candidacyThe Australian, 27 Feb 2007

Waving goodbye? Fans will decideThe Age, 4 Feb 2007

The ramifications of dobbing for AustraliansThe 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 rightOnline Opinion, 4 January, 2007

Software design by competition lawIPA 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 onThe Age, 24 September, 2006

It’s consistent at leastThe Australian (letter), 15 September, 2006

Only the market can properly reshape the media“, Australian Financial Review, 15 September, 2006

Scandinavian IdolIPA 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 tweakingIPA 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 moveAustralian 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 MediaIPA 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 SamuelThe 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

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