Libs In Name Only Cancel Christensen’s Dissent
It’s hard to know what will remain of the Liberal Party at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. As an organisation it will continue on, it will have representatives in…
It’s hard to know what will remain of the Liberal Party at the end of the COVID-19 pandemic. As an organisation it will continue on, it will have representatives in…
On Wednesday, NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro spoke more honestly about COVID-19 than any other politician – state or federal – has done since the outbreak of the virus in Australia...
Last month, ABC News reported on the results of a survey of 1157 Victorians conducted in September last year. Those results have just been published in the Journal of...
There’s a neat symmetry between the release this week of the 2021 Intergenerational Report from the Commonwealth Treasury department and the shambles Australia’s response to the...
George Orwell would have had an absolute field day analysing the great slogans of the great COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re all in this together”; “The government is following the science”...
For 6.6 million Victorians the cycle of lockdowns begins again. Schools closed, business shut, and the life of communities asphyxiated. And as Victorians know by now, after a total of...
Thirty years ago the author, journalist and one-time adviser to Margaret Thatcher, John O’Sullivan, described the behavioural tendencies of non-profit and philanthropic organisations...
No Liberal MP will say it publicly, but more than one is willing to whisper it in private. It’s not immediately obvious how next week’s federal budget from the Morrison…
Depending on your perspective, European football (soccer) is either a poster child for, or a cautionary tale about, unbridled capitalism. Many sporting codes around the world try to level...
One of the problems when you start replacing merit as the criterion for appointment to a position or role, or to become a Liberal Party MP, with some other basis…
One thing all the recent media attention on the behaviour of MPs and their staff in Parliament House has not done is derail the Morrison government’s policy reform agenda –…
John Dewar, the vice-chancellor of La Trobe University in Victoria, is one of the country’s most perceptive vice-chancellors. As his university faces the potential loss of hundreds of jobs...