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The Morrison government bills its proposed digital platform reforms, announced on Thursday, as “world-leading”. That may be true, in the same way that China’s “Great Firewall” – a tool of authoritarian suppression – was “world-leading” when it began in the 1990s. If that comparison seems dramatic, it is meant to be. The government’s ham-fisted measures have absolutely no place in

“It is very encouraging that deregulation and red tape reduction are back on the agenda as economic reform priorities for the government,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research with the free-market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. Tonight the Prime Minister addressed the Business Council of Australia annual dinner where he outlined the government’s deregulation agenda. “The announcement by

The Labor Party’s review of its federal election debacle was delivered to the party’s national executive on Thursday. Apparently the review has concluded the ALP ran a poor campaign, had too many policies and was led by an unpopular leader. Labor didn’t need six months to work that out – they knew that on the Sunday morning after the election.Since the poll

“Prime Minister Morrison is right to put the interests of the Australian people ahead of an unaccountable internationalist bureaucracy,” said Andrew Bushnell, Research Fellow with the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. On 4 October, the Prime Minister spoke to the Lowy Institute and committed his government to reasserting Australia’s national sovereignty against what he characterised as

“Reports that Prime Minister Scott Morrison would veto a divisive indigenous-only ‘voice to parliament’ represents a win for the principle that all Australians are equal,” said Daniel Wild, Director of Research at the free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs. “This position affirms the democratic values on which Australia was founded. The Australian Constitution should treat all Australian

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 today in 2019. You can also notice the change by comparing Labor’s and the Coalition’s election policies from this campaign. In 2019 while there’s certainly

The now-bipartisan bank deposit subsidy scheme is a shortsighted policy which, far from solving the problem of housing affordability, is likely to push up house prices and make housing less accessible for first time buyers. Under the proposed scheme, first proposed by the government, a limited number of eligible households earning up to $200,000 would require just a 5 per

The idea that Scott Morrison’s election policies should be decided according to what he thinks is popular in electorates such as Wentworth in Sydney and Kooyong in Melbourne is like Donald Trump running for president by appealing to voters in Manhattan and San Francisco. Yet when it comes to the Coalition’s climate change policies that’s what is happening. It’s not quite as

In calling the election yesterday, Scott Morrison insisted there was a clear choice between the Coali­tion and Labor. Sadly, at their core, there is not as much of a difference between the two governing alternatives as there should be. For example, Labor is committed to a 45 per cent emissions reduction target, while the Coalition’s policy is to reduce emissions

Congratulations Prime Minister Morrison. Here’s what we want to see out of your Prime Ministership: