Contents

2020/05/08:

Huygens' principle: Simple mechanistic reason for the phase advance of the secondary sources

2017/06/08:

Who does what in the Australian economy

2017/04/04:

What century is this? — the ambiguity of ‘plane of polarization’

2017/02/03:

‘Passive’ value capture is best

2017/01/31:

How we encourage the black economy

2016/12/24:

The Georgist case for a vacancy tax

2016/10/08:

Εὕρηκα 4th–8th October 2016: The observation by Huygens that should have discredited Newton's ‘rule’ for the extraordinary refraction of calcite

2016/08/23:

The Devil's talent

2016/08/21:

Private prisons lead to tyranny

2016/08/17:

Jury nullification: Your last defence against bad ‘laws’

2016/08/16:

Separation of powers implied by rule of law

2016/08/14:

Three unofficial state secrets about the housing problem

2016/07/27:

The reverse onus of proof for drug possession is contrary to the rule of law and therefore unconstitutional in all jurisdictions

2016/06/29:

The compulsory ‘retirement’ of home ownership in Australia

2016/06/23:

Negative gearing and the children-overboard effect

2016/06/07:

Errata in various editions of Huygens' Treatise on Light

2016/04/20:

Cheap housing is good for business!

2016/04/02:

Would a State retail sales tax require a referendum?

2016/02/29:

The banality of drivel: Henry Ergas on negative gearing

2016/02/26:

If you're not a property investor, your retirement plans don't matter, says IPA

2016/02/22:

Adam Smith on the irrational belief in one's own good fortune

2016/02/08:

The pons asinorum of value-capture

2015/11/11:

Negative gearing in context

2015/09/17:

The day the deal was done

2015/08/10:

Equitable methods of abolishing PAYG personal income tax

2015/08/07:

Housing: The mother of all economic issues

2015/07/31:

Crescent of Venus in daylight, captured by point-and-shoot camera

2015/07/11:

The price cannot be right: Taxation, sub-intrinsic-value housing bubbles, and financial instability

2015/04/11:

Jupiter & moons captured by point-and-shoot camera

2015/03/06:

Can the Australian Constitution be changed without a referendum?

2015/02/02:

Fine control over sizes of fractions in LaTeX

2015/01/16:

Convened-sample suffrage: Reclaiming democracy from vested interests

2014/12/13:

The Georgist dimension of fiscal devaluation: Why it isn't a zero-sum game

2014/10/12:

Precedents say stamp duties on new cars are unconstitutional

2014/10/05:

Rewarding employers for taking workers off the dole: A self-funding tax cut

2014/09/27:

Negative gearing is so 18th century!

2014/08/17:

How to install a Brother MFC-7460DN printer/scanner over a network on Linux Mint 17 ‘Qiana’ MATE 32-bit ed.

2014/08/16:

How to convert a PostScript file to PDF, embed all fonts, embed substitutes for missing fonts, convert colors to grayscale, prevent lossy compression of images, and preserve image resolution

2014/06/25:

Buy up Australia fair!

2014/05/26:

Abbott's plot to circumvent the minimum wage

2014/05/13:

Budget 2014: Top ten reasons why you have to work until you're 70

2014/04/11:

Why real developers and builders should split from the HIA

2014/04/07:

How to negatively gear your home

2014/04/06:

If you are charged under a retrospective ‘law’

2014/03/26:

How to invert colors in a selected region with GIMP

2014/03/22:

How to avoid stamp duty when you move house

2014/01/26:

Errata for Chapter 1 of Allen & Mills, Signal Analysis: Time, Frequency, Scale, and Structure (IEEE/Wiley, 2004)

2013/12/08:

A self-contained derivation of Kepler's laws from Newton's laws

2013/11/26:

A multiplatform Helvetica-like font stack that suppresses Arial

2013/11/24:

Using MathJax with a ‘Classic’ Blogger template

2013/10/19:

Ramsey taxation means land-value taxation

2013/10/05:

Maximalist ‘fiscal devaluations’ for Greece and Australia

2013/08/07:

The price of eliminating ‘company tax’

2013/07/26:

Make banks collect personal income tax!

2013/07/14:

Pay all who collect tax, not just banks

2013/07/07:

Misrepresentation of ‘fiscal devaluation’ in the Weekend Australian

2013/05/30:

Internal devaluation by tax reform

2013/05/22:

You can increase the GST without raising prices

2013/05/14:

Retrospective laws breach separation of powers

2013/04/27:

Austerity without unemployment

2013/04/12:

Full employment: how the euro can work for Ireland, not against it

2013/03/25:

Is Australia's plus-70-year copyrort term unconstitutional?

2013/03/23:

The only way to make payroll tax legal

2013/02/07:

Abbott's constitutional own-goal

2013/02/04:

How income tax feeds into prices

2013/01/23:

Is myki unconstitutional?

2012/12/26:

Whether Section 82 of the Australian Constitution means what it says

2012/12/21:

Does the GST breach Section 55 of the Constitution?

2012/12/13:

An open letter to Australian Treasurers

2012/12/07:

Draft Federal Budget Speech, 2013-14

2012/11/25:

How inflationary is government-issued money?

2012/09/29:

Ubuntu 12.10 Beta 2 and Sabayon Linux 10 on Dell Vostro 360

2012/09/09:

Abolishing payroll tax & stamp duty is easier than you think

2012/09/05:

Three font stacks to match DejaVu / Bitstream Vera

2012/08/23:

Real reform is qualitative, not quantitative

2012/08/20:

The Parable of the Talents (Neoclassical Version)

2012/08/18:

The creation of Woman, and the Seventh Day (Neoclassical Version)

2012/08/17:

Render to Caesar... (Neoclassical Version)

2012/08/16:

How to redirect Blogger pages to external URLs

2012/08/06:

Font stacks that look similar in Windows, OS X, and Linux

2012/07/30:

Diagrams for ‘Barlow-Newtonian and relay-Newtonian’

2012/06/22:

Draft letter to the ATO

2012/05/13:

Linux in full HD (with brightness control) on Dell Vostro 360

2012/04/17:

Australia's payroll taxes are probably unconstitutional

2012/03/24:

Linux kernel 3.3 on Dell Vostro 360

2012/03/20:

Employers: How to scare off the tax man

2012/01/12:

Replacing property taxes and payroll tax

2012/01/09:

Keating's Great Big Tax on Everything

2012/01/06:

If Anna Bligh ran a body corporate (U.S. ed.)

2011/12/23:

How tax causes financial crises and unaffordable housing

2011/12/15:

Five secrets for a successful economy

2011/12/03:

Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 on Dell Vostro 360

2011/11/27:

Why renters are vermin

2011/11/11:

Prosper Australia's doco Real Estate 4 Ransom

2011/10/25:

Slump in property sales points to recession

2011/09/18:

Can banks really evict tenants?

2010/03/19:

Juries can already protect whistleblowers

2009/07/08:

Legal notices

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Inlinks

2009/01/25:

Raising Australia's market share — Take 2!

2008/04/21:

When $4 million for nothing isn't enough

2008/04/07:

Still on the mountaintop: Economically rational racism

2008/03/12:

Apply your razor to the FHOG — surgically

2008/02/29:

100 words for the Australia 2020 Summit

2008/02/27:

The myth of progressive taxation

2008/02/25:

Can you stop paying the mortgage and keep the house?

2008/02/11:

How the Left could learn to love a retail tax

2008/02/08:

Google shows two whales

2008/01/30:

Will we all be Keynesians again?

2007/11/28:

Why patents are ‘basically iniquitous’

2007/10/29:

The Mother of All BBQ Stoppers

2007/07/31:

Democracy vs. universal suffrage

2007/07/16:

Haneef: So much for the separation of powers

2007/07/15:

Haneef ‘charge’ unconstitutional

2007/06/03:

Corporate solution to rape

2007/03/10:

Secrets about the State Secrets Privilege

2006/07/24:

Victims in double jeopardy

Not quite a department-store telescope

2006/06/30:

Self-funding infrastructure

2006/03/31:

The essential difference between patents and copyrights

2006/03/14:

Infrastructure on a bootstrap budget

2006/01/06:

Little people vs. littler people

2005/12/19:

Majority verdicts threaten victims

2005/12/06:

Ball in Property Council's court

2005/10/19:

Patently perverse incentives

1999/12/26:

Flag designs, Southern Cross theme, 2:3

1999/12/12:

The Single Means Test

1998/02/27:

Flag designs, Southern Cross theme, 5:8

1998/01/11:

Flag designs, kangaroo theme

1997/10/20:

Modeling of Horns and Enclosures for Loudspeakers (PhD thesis)