Utegate Ends With A Whimper
The scandal that was never in fact a scandal has been put to rest today…More
Tagged: australian politics
The Conference Is Not What It Used To Be
The 5 per cent of people who allow more than 1 per cent of their…More
Should Teenagers Get The Vote?
As a young nation that had the luxury of cherry-picking the best bits of other…More
What Country People Want
As inheritors of the relatively stable Westminster parliamentary system, Australians can only marvel at the…More
How To Kick Bad Policy Habits
What would a truly sustainable society for Australia look like? I’m talking about a society…More
Private Property
By the time the conference dinner, held on the last evening of the three-day Native…More
What 'Liberal Consensus'?
I’ll disclose my interest at the outset. I run a centre that undertakes research to…More
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch With Turnbull
Another dark and possibly stormy cloud is gathering over federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull today.…More
Since When Do Conservatives Hate Facts?
If a conscience vote on the Government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme were held today, how…More
Democracy Dies At The Wheel
This is a story about a car race, an autocratic state government and the abuse…More