People & associates
John Roskam
Alan's excellent adventure
Paul Keating is entitled to feel a little miffed. In Alan Greenspan's 531 page tome, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, published on...
A Government with no message
The issue of whether John Howard or someone else leads the Coalition to the election is a distraction. Voter disaffection with the Federal...
Apple isle panacea a fantasy
According to tennis legend John Newcombe, "there can be no doubt that tourism is the future for Tasmania". He says that's why he joined the protest...
Under federal control, all hospitals would have to compete
Last week Kevin Rudd promised that if state governments didn't "fix" their public hospitals, he would take them over. In response, the Prime...
Excuse for not cutting tax
If you walked down the street and asked people why government collected taxes you'd probably get one of two answers. Some would say their taxes...
This is no test of good citizens
The problem with the Howard Government's new citizenship test is not the requirement that applicants must learn English -- a greater focus on the...
Populism trumps policy
"It's a helluva way to run the country". This is a pretty accurate description by Labor frontbencher Bob McMullan of what the Howard government has...
It's good to have a Lib as premier
John Brumby might be in the Labor Party, but there's more than a hint of Jeff Kennett about him. The new Premier has already marked himself as...
Ideology is a health risk
Belief is a powerful thing. Often belief in something can be sustained despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. In 1919, the Hungarian Georg...
Terrorism is real. Just ask those who have lost loved ones
One of the great myths of history is that communism never threatened Australia. It is a myth successfully propagated by generations of left-leaning...