Australia’s Rising Cost Of Living Challenge
Australia is rapidly entering a new economic era of high inflation, high and rising interest rates, intense cost of living pressures, and heavily constrained government budgets ladened with high...
Urgent Action Needed To Fix Australia’s Emerging Incarceration Crisis
“Australia’s sentencing policies are causing mass-incarceration, imposing significant social and economic costs on the community, and not delivering the justice outcomes we deserve,” said...
Looking Beneath The Veneer Of Victoria’s Economy
Many are starting to realise that Victoria’s economy is a house of cards built on a foundation of printed money; the question is, for how much longer can this be…
Originally appeared in The Epoch Times
A Wake-up Call For Economic Liberals
It’s foolish to claim the destruction of Liz Truss is the best thing to happen to free market economics in decades. But it shows what happens when the argument for…
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review
Victoria On The Edge – Debt Deficits And Unsustainable Growth
Since the goldrush of the 1850s and throughout the bulk of the 20th century, Victoria has been the economic and cultural centre of Australia. Victoria’s vast wealth was generated by…
Victoria’s State Finances Worst In Nation– Every Victorian To Owe $30,000 & Interest Cost To Rise Five-fold
“On all critical financial indicators, Victoria is the nation’s worst performing state by a significant and growing margin, and it will be mainstream Victorians who pay the price,” said...
Running On Empty
Labor and the Coalition have both drained our coffers Although in office for a little more than 100 days, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has already been criticised in some quarters for…
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
IPA Report: The Employment Consequences Of The Early Closure Of The Eraring Power Station
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) was among the first organisations in Australia to quantify the potential employment impact of a policy of net zero emissions by 2050. In April…
Labor’s Housing Plan: The Monster Is In The Detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form of a virtual co-investment that saw the Commonwealth attempting to…
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Climate Accord An Undemocratic Stitch-Up
“Jim Chalmers’ proposed ‘accord’ on climate policy is an elitist stitch-up between the big end of town which is getting wealthy off green subsidies at the expense of the jobs…
Australians Won’t Pay For Net Zero
“That a significant majority of Australians have again been found willing to pay little or nothing to cut emissions reinforces that support for net zero in the community is shallow…
Censorship Is The Real Threat To Twitter, Not Elon Musk
If politicians around the world have their way, it won’t be the owner of the company deciding what can be said on the platform but state social media censors. This…
Originally appeared in The Australian Financial Review