At every turn businesses are weighed down by red tape that prevents growth, discourages job creation, and sucks resources away from productive activity. Adding to the burden is the unknown nature...
All Australians are equal. Our legal status should not be determined by our skin colour or our race. This clear principle is being undermined by a campaign to divide Australians in our nation’s...
The Australian Federal Police’s raid of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation overnight is a national embarrassment. Yesterday morning, AFP officers arrived at the national broadcaster’s Sydney...
Anyone who’s ever been to London and travelled on the Underground will know the words “mind the gap”.The phrase, together with concepts such as parliamentary democracy, the rule of law, freedom of...
All Australians are equal. The legal status of Australians should not be decided according to their skin colour or race. Any proposal that seeks to establish a special “voice to...
Last month’s federal election result throws up a worrying anomaly. The ACT electorates diverge markedly from the nation. In the ACT, the electors embrace the ALP big time. In the Canberra-based...
In Australia, nothing is certain except death, taxes and increases to the minimum wage. And while understandably welcome news for workers, each wage hike tightens the noose around the necks of...
Address to the 2019 Friedman Conference Sydney, Australia, 25 May 2019 Kurt Wallace, Research Fellow, Institute of Public Affairs Although the push to introduce a living wage in Australia may have...
Is there really a continuing drift away from the major parties in Australian parties? Like many I have in recent years bought into the narrative that we live in an age of political disruption –...
The federal Liberal Party has now won seven of the past 10 federal elections. Yet sometimes you wouldn’t know it. Saturday’s election victory proved that – at least in Canberra – the...
AT an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in New York recently, Sean Gourley explained Wiener’s Law: automation will routinely tidy up ordinary messes but will occasionally create an...
How much Australia has changed over the past decade can be seen from the difference between what Kevin Rudd as Labor opposition leader said to get elected in 2007 and what Bill Shorten is saying...
