“Dare to be different” is an advertising slogan employed in some form or another by companies like Honda to sell cars and Apple to sell computers, and by practically anyone who’s...
The Leopard is set in Sicily in the 1860s at the time of the unification of the Italian states and in the midst of sweeping political and social upheaval. The book centres on a Sicilian nobleman...
This week James and Pete talk leadership challenges, last week’s podcast breaking the IPA website, the latest on corporate tax cuts and all the papers in the US making a ‘brave...
Tuesday’s Liberal leadership ballot settles nothing. Malcolm Turnbull’s victory margin of 48 votes to 35 practically guarantees another challenge to the Prime Minister, if not from...
Bleak House is held to be one of Dickens’s finest novels, containing one of the most vast, complex and engaging arrays of minor characters and sub-plots in his entire canon. At the...
Here’s an idea. In order to improve the confidence of the public in democracy, the federal government should embed ‘Taxpayer Compliance Officers’ in cabinet and the Expenditure...
The merger of Fairfax Media and Nine Entertainment is good for media diversity, good for journalists, good for the Australian public, and demonstrates the benefits of the Turnbull...
Why we so often believe things are getting worse when in fact they’re getting better, why bureaucracies always get bigger not smaller, and why governments ban plastic bags is explained in an...
Sometimes political parties create their own narratives, and sometimes those narratives are created for them. Right at the moment Bill Shorten’s Labor Party is doing a good job at creating...
Everything you need to know about about the condition of humanities teaching in Australia’s universities is summed up in what happened last week at the University of Sydney. A hundred...
The hearings of the banking royal commission have, at different times, resembled a cross between the Soviet show trials of the 1930s and the American TV show L.A. Law of the 1980s. All those...
This column is a little different, as I thought I might tell you about the rock concert I went to in Melbourne back in March this year. It wasn’t actually a rock concert but it felt like one. The...
