Renewed Deregulation Agenda A Big Win For Jobs
Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has today welcomed the renewed deregulation agenda as outlined this morning in a keynote address delivered to the Business Council of...
Why I Was Right About Victoria’s Police State
At the beginning of April, I wrote in these pages that Labor Premier Daniel Andrews, in response to COVID-19, had created a “police state” in Victoria. The column ran with the...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
The Danger Of Following The Experts
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Young Australians’ Jobs Smashed By Lockdowns
Analysis by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ August Labour Force figures has found that young Australians have disproportionately...
Covid Totalitarianism
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
The Rise Of The Bureaucrats
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia Magazine
Australia’s Violent Enforcement Of Lockdowns Sparks Memories of the Eureka Rebellion
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...
Originally appeared in Foundation for Economic Education
The Ethical Collapse Of Victoria’s Government
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Danandrewstan And The Death Of Melbourne, Explained
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Small Business Workers Smashed By Lockdowns
Workers in small businesses have been smashed by lockdown measures compared to workers in big businesses, according to an analysis released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public...
Dan’s Debacle Shows Why Democracy Matters
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...
Our Threatening K-Shaped Corona Recession
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...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Lockdowns Hurt Small Business, Young Australians But Public Servants Flourish
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...
Originally appeared in The Australian
Australia Is In A K-Shaped Recession
Australia is experiencing a ‘K-shaped’ government-induced recession from the lockdown measures. The public sector are thriving and growing on the upward arm of the ‘K’, but the private sector...
810,000 Small Businesses And 1.7 Million Jobs At Risk From Lockdowns
Institute of Public Affairs analysis of data recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics finds that over 810,000 small businesses are at risk of closing and approximately 1.7 million...
Australia’s Covid Police State
Last week’s arrest of Zoe Buhler by Australian police, the video of which swept the world, should terrify every person who believes in liberal democracy. Buhler, a 28-year-old pregnant mother, was...
Originally appeared in Spiked
Private Sector Smashed By Lockdown Recession While Bureaucrats Flourish
Private sector workers’ wages dropped $5.9 billion in the June quarter while public sector workers’ wages increased $768 million, according to an analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data...
Dan’s Divine Rule Betrays Our History
Most Victorians wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking about if you said Premier Daniel Andrews was acting like King Charles I. Coronavirus or not, the government of the state of...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review