The Rise of Queensland
Together with the Prime Minister and the Treasurer, our new Governor General, Quentin Bryce, makes…More
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The Disconnected State
The dust has yet to settle after the State election in Western Australia. With the…More
Last Man Standing Gets Top Job
The new Premier is 40-year-old Nathan Rees, the Water and Emergency Services Minister who entered…More
The Polls Must be Crazy
It has been a year of vaudeville in Western Australian state politics, but suddenly things…More
Defence! A Light Opera in Three Inexpensive Acts
On a late August evening in the concrete bunker of Sydney’s Masonic Building, 60 interested…More
The Myth of "Carbon Leakage"
In 2007, the ABC screened the British documentary, The Great Global Warming Swindle, perhaps the…More
Funding Public Schools in the Clever Country
In public life the profound issues — those recycled by various interest groups, policy wonks…More
What are Politicians Afraid Of?
There is an urgent need to drastically reform the electoral funding system in our country.…More
If NSW Were a Horse…
As Morris Iemma prepares to lead an ill-fated assault to push his Electricity Privatisation Bill…More
The Dirty Money Behind Clean Elections
In March this year NSW Premier Morris Iemma and Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell gave strong…More