Brian Lee Crowley
The Aboriginal Wizard of Oz
This is the first in a wonderful series of articles in The Australian by Noel Pearson, an Australian Aborigine and the Director of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership. Mr Pearson is clearly part of a world-wide awakening among young Aboriginal leaders questioning whether the social service state can really solve the problems […]
Invest in this!
One of my greatest bugbears is the abuse of language, for as the Chinese remind us, when words cease to carry clear and definite meaning, we cannot talk successfully to one another and what needs to be done remains undone. High on my list of “linguistic abominations to be resisted” is the intellectually lazy language […]
Of EI and truth in politics
by Brian Lee Crowley I am not usually one for simplistic institutional fixes for what are essentially political problems (electoral reform, proportional representation, Senate reform, etc., etc.), and normally term limits would fall into this category. But Jamie Muir, Nova Scotia’s finance minister, who is retiring once the current provincial election is done, is making […]
Seeking legal redress
by Brian Lee Crowley If any further evidence was needed that President Obama was talking through his hat when he promised that his stimulus package’s Buy America provisions would be fully consistent with America’s international trade obligations, here it is. In this article from the Financial Times, American authorities recognise that state and local governments […]
Freedom to Trade
by Brian Lee Crowley As my friends at Freedom to Trade noted yesterday, the New York Times is perhaps not a newspaper that always gets things right from an economic point of view. On the other hand, when someone is usually a source of bad ideas, that is an extra reason for celebrating when they […]
