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Trump’s Tax Revolution
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Once there was a product so injurious to public health that it required special government legislation to deal with it. Government officials were convinced that fully informed consumers would make different choices, so they forced manufacturers to... Read more
Richard Allsop
Finance and Economics
Australian exceptionalism is torn apart by the free market right in this stimulating collection of essays, writes Richard Allsop.
One might think that there are four basic camps on the topic of Australian exceptionalism. Firstly, people can... Read more
Daniel Wild
Government Services
Politicians yearning for a nostalgic return to glory days are failing modern America, according to a book reviewed by Daniel Wild.
Modern politics in America has a nostalgia problem. Americans and the politicians who represent them yearn... Read more
James Bolt
Western Civilisation
What would you do if one of al-Qaeda’s most feared, fanatical, and unpredictable leaders stops you in the street and accuses you of stealing? He has just seen you leave a building with a box containing ancient manuscripts that you legally own and... Read more
John Hajek
Finance and Economics
An influential economist wants to phase out paper money, writes John Hajek.
Suggesting that governments phase out cash is bound to rub some people up the wrong way—and not just the Pablo Escobars and John Gottis of the world, whose bread... Read more
Evan Mulholland
Dignity of Work, Government Services
Uber and Airbnb are part of a wider market revolution changing the way the world does business, writes Evan Mulholland.
The last few decades have delivered us a monumental shift in how we receive goods and services.
Disruption has... Read more
Aaron Lane
Faith and Society
Religious freedom is under threat from all sides, writes Aaron Lane.
‘Regardless of whether Labor or Liberal wins the election, we still end up with a Catholic Prime Minister.’
You would think these were the words of a 1950s... Read more
Jason Potts
Government Services
New technology can fix Australia’s ailing health system, but only if
To fix health care and human services – two government programs as egregiously expensive as they are important - we need to solve a basic property rights problem.... Read more
Andrew Bushnell
Criminal Justice
Australia’s wasteful criminal justice system needs a major overhaul, but we shouldn’t leave it to the bureaucrats, writes Andrew Bushnell
Australia’s criminal justice system is ineffective and wasteful, failing to protect the... Read more
Brett Hogan
Dignity of Work
Australia has a 21st century workforce labouring under a 19th century industrial relations system, writes Brett Hogan.
Better health, housing, communications, education and transport options allow more people to make more decisions for... Read more
Simon Breheny
Constitution and Law, Freedom of Speech
The extraordinary complaints—now, after furious media attention, withdrawn—against Bill Leak for drawing a satirical political cartoon demonstrates why Australia’s most prominent anti-free speech law must be repealed.
In October, The... Read more
Chris Berg
Finance and Economics
The meaning of this US presidential election will be picked over for decades. But time is a luxury in politics. Australia’s political class is right now trying to draw some lessons from Donald Trump’s unexpected victory.
Bill Shorten was... Read more