The John Hyde Archives

Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.

1989

Dries Must Resist Giving Up Struggle as Going Gets Rough

Politics 

  • Society is a feedback machines in that, any misfortune creates behavioural changes and the trick is to change patterns of behaviour before misfortunes become too awful.
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Lessons From WA

Politics 

  • Labour has been given the message that unaccountability method of governance is unacceptable. Two other issues were interest rates and competence of our political leaders.
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Giving Authority Back to Parliament

Politics 

  • For government accountability to be present, all political parties must honour the Westminster tradition and there must be an independent press.
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Of Wages and Wheat

Industrial Relations  Regulation  Politics 

  • The Liberals must establish the few important principles now. Continual deregulation is one of them.
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The Dropping of The Pilot

Politics 

  • John Howard's greatest achievement was to develop a party that would not be in bed with special interests.
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The Pilots and The Libs IR Policy

Industrial Relations  Politics 

  • The whole point of the Liberal policy was the salary of pilots should be market driven but the leader of the Liberal party missed the opportunity to educate the Australian people on the least painful way to bring the current account into balance.
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The Rake's Progress

Industrial Relations  Competition 

  • The rhetoric against the Australian Federation of Air Pilots is unfair. They are not the enemy, they should be left to be dealt with by market forces.
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Interest Rates Are Not Doing the Job

Interest Rates  Economics  Business 

  • When there is not a need to rely on interest rates to kill demand, the inflow of foreign investment will fall.
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Coronation Hill and Conservation

Environment 

  • Miners are ordinary people who for the most part, love nature. By demonising them, environmentalists gave up the chance for BHP to use its resources for their cause.
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The Liberal's Tax and Spending Policy

Taxation  Fiscal Policy  Politics 

  • The overall thrust of the policy is pro-employment but falls well short of solutions for the problems outlined. Nevertheless, it is a step in the right direction.
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