This Month
Labor says supporting Ukraine an easy choice, but what about Taiwan?
The Chinese live-fire fiasco showed the government’s short-term domestic political considerations are hampering our ability to deter and damaging our credibility as an alliance partner.
February
Victoria’s byelection shows we need two-party system more than ever
Minor parties and independents lack the experience and ability to govern when it comes to serious policy issues facing Australia.
January
Can hard times change the teal tide for Dutton?
It would be foolish to write off the opposition leader’s values-based election pitch. Economic conditions might hit home in the post-material seats he must win.
Three lessons for Liberals to win in Victoria
New state party leader Brad Battin must offer a clear alternative to Labor’s high-tax, high-debt governance.
December 2024
Albanese must lead like Labor heroes Evatt and Hawke on antisemitism
When Australia’s Jewish community has been under threat, strong prime ministers have stepped up to offer support and reassurance. Today, that sense of security is evaporating.
November 2024
Neither side of politics shares Menzies’ vision for higher education
Instead of Labor and the Coalition blaming international students for housing shortages, they should reimagine our universities as engines of progress.
July 2024
How toxic talk turns too easily to assassin’s bullets
A more centrist political culture doesn’t make Australia immune to the language that has inflamed American politics in recent times.
Why we need to have a genuine look at nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is the kind of nation building policy we need when our lucky country’s luck is running out.
June 2024
Greens are a threat to Australia’s bipartisan tolerance
To have a political party standing side by side with protestors who call for the elimination of the Jewish state “from the river to the sea” is intolerable.