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...
The ideology of identity politics, the theory that individuals should be judged not on their personal merits but according to their gender, race, and class, has escaped from university lecture...
John Roskam, Executive Director at the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has congratulated Georgina Downer for nominating for Liberal Party preselection for the seat of Mayo...
Maybe the easiest thing to do about the banks would just be to nationalise them. At the moment they are semi-government public authorities anyway. Politicians hold press conferences telling the...
In the 1980s, the Labor Party implemented the Liberal Party’s policies. Three decades later, policy has come full circle. Today, the Liberal Party is implementing the Labor Party’s...
The Victorian Government’s gift of $225 million of taxpayers money to the Australian Football League for the redevelopment of Etihad Stadium is outrageous corporate cronyism according to...
