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I once worked for Malcolm Turnbull’s government, now it is almost a mark of shame to even bring that fact up. After leaving the government in 2016 for the warm embrace of the IPA, a friend said to me, ‘Just wait, when Turnbull is no longer prime minister, and there will come a day hopefully soon, he will be ten

Australian farmers will hardly sleep easy with the assurance of the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions Michele O’Neil that ‘agriculture has more to gain from transition [to low emissions] than almost any other sector.’  Why farmers haven’t voluntary signed up to a net zero emissions target if they have more to gain than any almost any other sector is a question that O’Neil didn’t care to answer.

If Labor’s reshuffle will be enough to correct the party’s woeful policy agenda and reconnect with mainstream Australians remains to be seen.  The most significant change is the removal of Mark Butler from the climate change and energy portfolio, a position he has maintained through two election defeats, the most recent of which was supposedly the ‘climate election’.  In the

In the wake of an underwhelming summer of cricket in which the Australians lost a home series to the depleted Indian squad, Australia’s governing body for cricket has identified where it’s priorities lie: joining the campaign to abolish Australia Day.   The pool of batsmen proved to be without depth, while the bowling line-up was inconsistent at best. The captaincy of the test team is under renewed pressure, with captain

Australia needs a COVID-19 reset.   After seven hard months of social isolation, economic pain and despair about the future, the time has come to change course.  COVID-19 is not going anywhere. It never was.   This virus cannot be eliminated; there is no vaccine.   It will not be avoided; global transmissions are surging.  What is clear is that the virus spreads faster than influenza and without a vaccine, it will kill more people than it.   

If Daniel Andrews were a bank chief executive instead of a state premier, he would have been forced to resign weeks ago. And the person leading the demands for Andrews’ resignation would have been the Prime Minister himself, Scott Morrison. In 2018 when he was treasurer, Morrison called for, as described at the time, “heads to roll” at Commonwealth Bank

Free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has estimated that Stage 4 restrictions imposed by the Victorian Government will hit Gross State Product by $3.17 billion per week. This is based on the New Zealand Reserve Bank which estimated that during stage four GDP in New Zealand was 37 percent lower than it would’ve been without lockdown. “The

‘Want to go to the footy? Download the app.’ tweeted Health Minister Greg Hunt on 2 May, speaking to Australians as if they were unruly children who need to eat their veggies before they get dessert. The dessert being a ‘new normal’ where governments hold our freedoms to ransom until we meet the demands of unimpeachable health experts. Australians have

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 wound down. The former Liberal leader John Hewson is right when he says the national cabinet has for the moment at least, suspended the

In the Battle of Bridget, the unelected bureaucrats have triumphed over the will of the Victorian people with the effect of diminishing the value of our democracy. Senator Bridget McKenzie has paid a steep price for the sports rorts scandal, being forced to resign as Minister for Agriculture and leave Cabinet. The usual narrative around McKenzie’s dismissal was that it