People & associates
John Roskam
A boomer with a view
Treasurer Wayne Swan was born in 1954. He's a typical baby boomer with typical baby boomer memories. In his John Button Lecture in Melbourne on...
Labor's two-edged sword
Right now, every federal Labor MP should ask themselves a question. And it's got nothing to do with what they are all (understandably) obsessed...
Aunty looms too large
Two of Australia's three major media organisations are cutting costs and jobs dramatically and are being changed fundamentally. Those two...
Employer rights trampled
Of course Fairfax Media journalists want Gina Rinehart, the owner of 18 per cent of Fairfax, to sign the Fairfax Media Charter of Editorial...
Democracy in doubt
If the young are our future, then we're in trouble. The results of two polls released this week give a glimpse of what young people in Australia...
Nasser tells it like it is
It's not quite going from the sublime to the ridiculous - but it's close. Two speeches have captured the national headlines over the past week....
Great expectations vanish
The federal budget was entirely predictable. The dodgy accounting. The flimsy "surplus". The higher taxes on the wealthy. The bribes to the...
Banks to get a green sheen
Soon there will be something else to beat up the banks about. Politicians will have more than just interest rate rises, billion-dollar profits and...
Premiers, state your case
Four of Australia's six state governments are now conservative, but you'd hardly know it. In Queensland it's early days. But in NSW, Victoria and...
Life experience key among advisers
David Gonski. Glen Boreham. Ray Finkelstein. Ken Henry. They have each headed up one of the Gillard government's recent...