If you were to ask the average CEO of the average ASX 100 company to talk for 10 minutes about climate change or Indigenous recognition they would easily be able to do so. If you asked them to...
In a week’s time the federal Coalition will have been in government for six years after having won three elections in a row. For all the worthwhile things it has done over those years – and...
It’s funny how in such a supposedly egalitarian country as Australia we pay so much deference to public servants. We pay them a lot (much more than their overseas counterparts), we give them a lot...
Nearly exactly the same things said about social media today could have been said in the middle of the 15th century about the development of movable type and the printing press. People will use...
It’s understandable that some of Australia’s biggest companies including BHP, Rio Tinto, Lendlease, Qantas and Woolworths would support the Uluru Statement. Business leaders have a...
Israel Folau versus Rugby Australia is the court case everyone, except our politicians, wants to talk about. The suggestion that it’s merely a contractual dispute that has nothing to do with...
Maybe ASIC is trying to do to big public companies what the AFL is well on the way to doing to the game of Australian football. Numerous and never-ending changes to the rules, ever-shifting...
Anyone who’s ever been to London and travelled on the Underground will know the words “mind the gap”.The phrase, together with concepts such as parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, freedom of...
This article by John Roskam first appeared in the April 2019 edition of the IPA Review. According to The Guardian there are more than 1,000 biographies of Churchill. There’s probably not much more...
The federal Liberal Party has now won seven of the past 10 federal elections. Yet sometimes you wouldn’t know it. Saturday’s election victory proved that – at least in Canberra – the...
How much Australia has changed over the past decade can be seen from the difference between what Kevin Rudd as Labor opposition leader said to get elected in 2007 and what Bill Shorten is saying...
The idea that Scott Morrison’s election policies should be decided according to what he thinks is popular in electorates such as Wentworth in Sydney and Kooyong in Melbourne is like Donald Trump...
