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Tom Switzer

Portrait of Tom Switzer

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Tom Switzer is editor of the Spectator Australia, a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, a former Senior Adviser to the federal Opposition Leader, Opinion Editor of The Australian, an editorial writer at the Australian Financial Review and an Assistant Editor at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He has also been a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The Spectator and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations at Sydney University.

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New world leaders and the politics of power

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

IPA Review | March 2009 In early 2008, David Cameron said he greatly admired Barack Obama and pledged to bring some of the same uplifting spirit of change and renewal that the American Democrat generated in the US to the British political scene....

Nixon as culture warrior

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

IPA Review | March 2009 Tom Switzer reviews Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (Scribner, 2008, 881 pages) Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a modest, working-class Protestant family. He worked at...

Public attitudes toward foreign investment

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tom Switzer

Everything's changed? The Liberals have locked conservative government

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

It's still their ABC

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

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Climate of emissions trading cools

Climate Change | Tom Switzer
The Australian 5th August, 2010

We all know both Labor and the Coalition have jettisoned plans to implement an emissions trading scheme to tame climate change. But Australia is...

Despite the right turn, Gillard is no Iron Lady

Governance & Service Provision | Tom Switzer
The Australian Financial Review 19th July, 2010

When Kevin Rudd won the 2007 election, conventional wisdom suggested Labor's victory would mark a political realignment in Australia. Not only did...

Who is Kevin Rudd? No one really knows

Governance & Service Provision | Tom Switzer
The Age 10th May, 2010

At the height of the 1956 US presidential election, Adlai Stevenson said of Richard Nixon: "This is a man of many masks. Who can say they have seen...

Is there a plan B for the ETS?

Economics & Deregulation and Climate Change | Tom Switzer
ABC The Drum Unleashed 27th April, 2010

F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time,...

Chance to combat climate change through policy has come and gone

Governance & Service Provision and Climate Change | Tom Switzer
The Australian 21st April, 2010

On the ABC1's 7.30 Report last week, Barack Obama reiterated his belief that putting a price on carbon was the best way to reduce greenhouse gas...