People & associates
John Roskam
Diary
The IPA 's Freedom Extravaganza Tour with Mark Steyn finished last week. Sold-out events across every mainland capital (sorry Hobart - next time.)...
A failure to defend liberty
Last Friday one of the most able and intelligent people in the federal Parliament faced a test of his policy and political judgment. He failed....
Old-school ideas not on the money
The Gonski report on school funding follows in the path of every other government report on schooling of the past 40 years. It identifies the...
Abbott needs to be ready
Kevin Rudd and big business have a lot in common apparently. According to Labor ministers they're both willing to put self-interest ahead of the...
Let European dogs lie
Australians will be surprised to learn that, apparently, the federal government now has responsibility to help the city of Athens pay for the...
Labor's Texta moment
It's only January but we've already got the quote of the year. "We will be getting the butcher paper and Textas out and solving the...
Slay the super sacred cow
There's one good thing about the local stockmarket falling 15 per cent last year: people are beginning to ask what the point is of compulsory...
Left's delusions laid bare
This year sounded the death knell for the euro, government stimulus packages and international action on climate change. The year should therefore...
Crippled by its crutches
According to Ralph Norris, overseas investors are worried about the Gillard government. No matter how worried overseas investors are, they should...
Free trade tied up in knots
We should welcome the fact that Australia will be the shower head capital of the world thanks to what happened in Honolulu a few days ago. Leaders...