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• We’re already getting a taste of global governance in immigration and environment policies, Keith Windschuttle says

  

  In the wake of former Greens’ leader Bob Brown’s advocacy of a democratically elected bicameral world parliament, Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle considers what such governance could mean.

  
  

• Nick Minchin calls the Labor-Greens carbon tax “probably the worst policy I’ve ever seen inflicted on this country”

  

  Here’s another reminder, if you needed one, why conservatives are regretting Nick Minchin’s absence from the federal Parliament.

  
  

• Managing the media for propaganda

  

  The crucial question is whether the federal Labor government’s infatuation with propaganda is an aberration or an enduring feature of Labor’s degeneration into the political wing of a culturally powerful but narrowly based, sectional interest? John Muscat writes at Quadrant Online.

  
  

• Tom Switzer: Romney’s Illinois win is a big step towards the GOP nomination

  

  Mitt Romney’s win in the Illinois Republican primary was his most significant victory since Florida, Tom Switzer told ABC TV’s The Drum yesterday.

  
  

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