There has never been a time since the end of World War II when it has been more important to scrutinise government and hold politicians to account. There are monumental issues for the federal...
The release of the “Palace Letters” reveals Queen Elizabeth had as much to do with the dismissal of the Whitlam government as did the CIA. The correspondence, now made public, between...
“For those of us who are old enough to remember it is starting to feel like 1990 has come again,” James Campbell, the National Political Editor of the Herald Sun, wrote this week regarding the...
Victoria’s infrastructure boom is being driven without regard to value, need or the inevitable fiscal reckoning
The ABC using its own airtime to cry poor makes for tedious viewing and ignores the concerns of ordinary Australians. Other than having the host’s position filled by Virginia Trioli, this...
Questioning and challenging the policies and actions of ministers and senior bureaucrats is fundamental to parliament’s role in holding the government to account. While the Commonwealth parliament...
In the April edition of this newsletter I wrote about the importance of shared sacrifice between the public and private sectors, and that many in the public sector and quasi-public institutions...
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press are two foundational components of a free, liberal democratic nation like Australia. Never has this been truer than in the current debate over the...
Australia will live or die by the success of private enterprise. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, 75 per cent of all jobs in Australia are created in the private sector, with the...
If there are concerns with the quality of journalism in Australia perhaps the AMCA could start by investigating the ABC given that less than one-third of Australians believe the ABC represents the...
This article from the Autumn 2020 edition of the IPA Review is written by Research Fellow at the IPA, Andrew Bushnell. Awareness is growing that the coronavirus disease might cause two...
The sooner politics in Australia returns to normal the better. A national cabinet of the Prime Minister and premiers was a good idea at the time, but it has now served its purpose and should be...
There are a million reasons why the economy vs lives meme in relation to relaxing COVID-19 restrictions is a false dichotomy. Here’s another: Western lockdowns are killing people in the developing...
Despite the sweet-sounding idea that we are all in this together, the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis are not being shared anywhere equally. Look at the University of Sydney, where casual...
Since the World Health Organization’s declaration of the coronavirus as a pandemic-level public health event Australians have been subject to an increasingly arbitrary, inconsistent and petty...
These days probably the best way to guarantee the federal Coalition government won’t do something is to have Malcolm Turnbull suggest it. So when Turnbull on the publicity tour for his...
The coronavirus pandemic is an extraordinary threat to public health, and governments around Australia have taken appropriate, and so far successful, steps to protect the population. As the crisis...
This article originally featured in the Spectator Australia The Andrews’ Labor government’s draconian response to the coronavirus pandemic has given all Victorians a taste of what it is like to...
