People should be wary of politicians justifying their actions in terms of “following the experts.” Victorians are learning that lesson in the most brutal way possible. Everything the Victorian...
At a time when Australia has fallen into its first recession in 30 years, you would hope that the Federal government would be spending the public’s money wisely and exercising some vigilance on...
The actions of Victoria Police in the egregious arrest of Ballarat mother Zoe Buhler for posting about an anti-lockdown protest on social media is a graphic representation of Victoria’s slide into...
Victorians seem to have accepted the need for their extended Covid lockdown, which has been the longest and harshest anywhere in the developed world. A Roy Morgan poll conducted by SMS across 8-9...
This article was coauthored by Mark Hornshaw, lecturer in Economics, Entrepreneurship and Management at The University of Notre Dame Australia. It originally ran on the website for the Foundation...
On Wednesday I said on the IPA’s Looking Forward Podcast that in Victoria the key democratic institutions are being destroyed by the State’s Premier, Daniel Andrews, in his myopic pursuit of virus...
It was the image that shocked Australia and soon went global. A pregnant woman, handcuffed in her own kitchen, in front of her children, as police officers seized every computer, tablet and cell...
The debacle that is the response of Australia’s state governments to the coronavirus pandemic has provoked claims such as “the federation is broken” and “the PM must do...
Australia is emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown measures not as one, but two separate nations comprised of the economic, cultural and political elite embodied in the public sector on one hand...
This is not Australia’s first recession, nor will not be the last, but it is the first recession caused by deliberate actions taken by government. Creating a depression-era economy is the expert...
“It’s probably a bit unusual for me to be in agreement with the IPA,” said Labor Senator Kim Carr. “I have been known to say some nasty things about you.” This utterance occurred during a hearing...
It was the image that shocked Australia and soon went global. A pregnant woman, handcuffed in her own kitchen, in front of her children, as police officers seized every computer, tablet and cell...
