A survey that included housing affordability, per capita income, tax rates (central and local), and average drive-time to work, would almost certainly generate quite different rankings. Perhaps what has been missing is this acknowledgement that different factors motivate different kinds of people.
Owen McShane
Why Emissions Law Should Be Scrapped
However, the most powerful argument for repealing the Emissions Trading Act is that it was passed by a reluctant, divided and narrow majority in the dying days of Parliament in a manner that was undemocratic, failed to address the national interest, and in breach of longstanding constitutional conventions.
Double-Bubble, and Oil, and Trouble
If there is anything to be learned from the recent string of bubbles, it may be that surplus investment capital, now floating round the world in cyberspace, is always looking for a speculative home and that as one bubble bursts, the fund managers desperately seek out a replacement. Will we see a gathering flock to carbon trading, windmills, biofuels and other renewables driven largely by the legislators?
What Does the End of Cheap Oil Mean to our Urban Future?
Why the urban catastrophists are wrong and society will adapt to higher oil prices through technology and natural changes in behaviour.
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Canadian Property Rights Index 2023
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It’s Great to Come Home – but . . .
It’s Great to Come Home – but . . .
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming
Why Urban Planners Love Global Warming
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BACK TO THE FUTURE: LAND TRANSPORT AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
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Cypress Letter
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More myths bite the dust.
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Open letter to the British High Commissioner
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The Other ‘Clash of Civilisations’
In his seminal Environment Court decision, Marlborough Ridge v Marlborough District Council, Judge Jackson said “there is a distinct thread in the RMA which takes an economic approach to sustainable management of natural and physical...