By Emilie Dye | Canberra Times

Following the release of the report of the royal commission into aged care, the government has faced calls from various quarters that might easily lead it to become a little trigger happy with new taxes.

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By Emilie Dye | Free the People

I am a 24-year-old, and I love flavored vapes — grape, chocolate caramel ice cream, and watermelon, to be precise. Too bad five states and numerous cities across the United States have banned flavored vapes, assuming these flavors are ‘meant for kids.’ And worse, now the FDA is expanding that ban. As of February 1, 2021, vape manufacturers will face consequences should they make or sell any vape flavors besides tobacco and methanol.

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By Emilie Dye | Townhall

Last January, you could buy a bitcoin for less than $9,000 — that's roughly the downpayment on a 2018 Ford F-150. Today, it costs around $37,000 — that's almost enough to buy the truck outright.

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By Tahsin Samia | MyChoice

Having lost a loved one to a road fatality, I am appalled to see the NSW government use road safety as a pretense to earn an extra buck. The government recently decided to remove mobile speed camera warning signs so drivers won’t slow down in time to avoid a fine.

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By Pavel Pfitzner | The Spectator

‘Social distancing’ was the motto of 2020. However, with around 90 per cent of Australia’s population crammed into 0.22 per cent of Australia’s landmass, perhaps in 2021 we should start thinking about ways we could decentralise the Australian population.

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By Tahsin Samia | MyChoice

With Queensland locking down and NSW mandating masks, it seems Scott Morrison changed the wrong word in the national anthem. We are still ‘young’, but we are not ‘one’ and very much are not ‘free’. The government’s response to COVID-19 is dividing us into public and private workers -- haves and have-nots.

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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator

In a state with 8 million people in a city of 5 million, 49 locals this week contracted a virus with a survival rate of 99.3 per cent. On Monday, community transmission in NSW hit a whopping zero. Yet, lockdown enthusiasts have still found a reason to complain.

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By Emilie Dye | The Daily Telegraph

The Australian government isn’t into the Christmas spirit, taking when all we want is the gift of a fair go.

On the first day of Christmas the Australian government took from me a percentage of my income for the ‘good of the society’.

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By Pavel Pfitzner | MyChoice

Australia is a federation of six states and two territories, but does it need to stay that way? The states and territories have had a tumultuous history, both with secessionist movements and calls for regional statehood -- some coming very close to succeeding. The original drafters of the constitution would likely find themselves surprised waking up in an Australia with a map that hasn't changed since 1900.

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By Emilie Dye | The Daily Telegraph

In 1935, Australian settlers introduced cane toads to Queensland to control the cane beetles in sugarcane fields. In response to the drug-infused culture of Kings Cross, the NSW government launched a war on drugs alongside much of the Western world. But our war on drugs has run into the same dilemma as the cane toads in Queensland; the solution is worse than the original problem.

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By Julia Kokic | MyChoice

It seems Clover Moore is living in an alternative universe. In the real world, Australia is recovering from the effects of a global pandemic. People are struggling, businesses are treading water. We have 6.9 per cent unemployment, and 14.5 per cent youth unemployment in Australia.

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By Maximillian Enthoven | MyChoice

The 2020 federal budget presented Australians with a new scheme to get the economy moving - a year of subsidised wages. The federal government has allocated $4 billion for businesses hiring new workers as part of the JobMaker plan. But like all subsidies, these government funded paychecks will help some and hurt others.

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By Emilie Dye | The National Interest

Before Americans consider mimicking Australia's coronavirus response, they should consider the full costs of heavy-handed governance.

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By Emilie Dye | The Spectator

Albert Einstein pointed out the obvious when he said, “We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” This year alone the Australian Border Force’s Illicit Tobacco Task-force seized 421 million cigarettes and 175 tonnes of loose leaf tobacco. The regular excise tax increases for tobacco products has made the illicit trade increasingly profitable.

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By Emilie Dye | The Daily Telegraph

According to Service NSW, Victorian farmers will only be able to get their lambs to market when sheep fly. Sydney based bureaucrats don’t see anything odd about loading 40 sheep onto an aeroplane in Melbourne, flying them to Sydney, then driving them to Corowa Sheep Yards on the border of Victoria. Our draconian COVID-19 restrictions have entered and ventured well into the realm of the ridiculous.

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By Emilie Dye | Orange Country Register

California is once again robbing its residents of opportunity. Sobbing hearts have decided gig workers aren’t earning enough money or receiving the benefits they deserve. In January, California changed labor law to make it more difficult for companies to hire workers as independent contractors. Now a judge has ruled that Uber and Lyft are breaking that law and must classify their drivers as “employees.”

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By Julia Kokic | The Daily Telegraph

First-year university students who fail more than half of their subjects are set to lose HECS support. Universities and student activists will sob about the harshness of this decision, but as a university student, I support this type of tough love.

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