The John Hyde Archives
Historic archive of articles and newspaper columns written by former Australian politician John Hyde OAM.
The Rural Times
This section contains all 27 of John Hyde's articles published in the Rural Times.
Of Rural Industry and The Economy
- The reason for our relative economic decline is the failure to seek out areas where we have comparative advantage.
- For the moment, primary industry such as farming, and mining is where we are efficient.
The Real Exchange Rate
Currencies & Commodities Monetary Policy Economics
- The solution to our problems is to raise productivity by deregulating and privatising and encouraging saving.
- The coming devaluation of our currency will increase inflation can be prevented by increasing wages and other costs as long as necessary.
Tripartitism Examined
- Tripartitism is used to describe arrangements between government, trade unions and employer councils. Tripartitism uses committees as an alternative to deregulation and privatisation.
The Wool Corporation's Stocks
- By allowing the Australian Wool Council to build up buffer stocks and to control prices, we are allowing them to ride a boom into a recession as managers of such schemes cannot be trusted.
Wheat Market Deregulation
- Deregulating the wheat market has brought many benefits such as the freedom for the producer to set prices and cheaper prices and better products for consumers.
Environment in The Bush
- Private property is best for the environment where owners safeguard the value of the property by taking care of their land.
Making Full Employment Legal
Industrial Relations Individual Rights
- The Coalition promise to de-criminalising individuals selling their labour will improve our living standards and pay off our foreign debts.
What We Should Expect of The New Government?
- There is a rough consensus about what needs to be done to restore dynamism to the economy, what is lacking is the political will.
Taxing Investment
- To reduce our foreign debt, we need to increase our savings. However, the government subsidises those that don't save by providing pension and penalises those that do by increasing the tax rates.
The NFF
- The National Farmers Federation (NFF) has made intellectual integrity a source of political power and has done much to improve the trading environment for Australia's exports.
Cutting Government
- Any expenditure cuts should be done in a timely manner by people who are familiar with budget outlays.
What Right to Strike?
Industrial Relations Competition Individual Rights
- A competitive labour market works only if both employers and employees are competitive. Union sanctions affect the rights of individuals.
Technology in Government Committee
- Appropriate technology is technology that produces at the least cost to the common environment. Technology should to produce a more productive and profitable Australia.
Social Trends
- The tendencies of our social environment should have the same amount of attention as our physical environment.
Waste in NSW
- The NSW government run on the platform of deregulation and privatisation.
- Micro-economic reform is eliminating waste and failure and is always opposed by people who lose their benefits and seldom praised enough by those who gain from the new efficiencies.
Education
Education Taxation Competition
- Education is a private benefit which the government subsidises by using taxpayer's monies. It is time we allowed all schools to compete on equal financial terms and allow parents to select their child's education.
About
John Hyde OAM is a former Australian politician. He was elected as the member for the Division of Moore in Western Australia for the Liberal Party.
John Hyde OAM is the author of Dry: In Defence of Economic Freedom.