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Tom Switzer

Portrait of Tom Switzer

Research Fellow

Tom Switzer is 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 JournalThe Spectator and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations at Sydney University.

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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

Economic Nationalism: It's Back to the Future

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

The prospect of greater government intervention in the economy, dressed up as various forms of economic nationalism, is far more dangerous than we might think.

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The age of unqualified loyalty is over

| Tom Switzer
The Spectator 3rd January, 2009

In the aftermath of 11 September, it was widely assumed that a US-led coalition of freedom-loving states fighting the good fight against Islamists...

Anti-terror laws work

| Tom Switzer
The Spectator 3rd December, 2008

Journalists and columnists frequently criticise politicians and government for their regular stuff-ups. So allow me to applaud that rare and...

Former PM with manners of steel

| Tom Switzer
The Australian 20th November, 2008

WITH John Howard back in the public spotlight this week, the question arises: what kind of former prime minister will he be? Will he follow in the...

A dignified silence

| Tom Switzer
The Spectator 19th November, 2008

John Howard won't tarnish his legacy like other former prime ministers, says Have you heard about the former Liberal prime minister's remarks to a...

The unseen art of political ventriloquism

| Tom Switzer
The Spectator 5th November, 2008

At last month's launch of his book Churchill and Australia, Graham Freudenberg was genuinely shocked that some people were genuinely shocked...