January
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Nicholas Moore: blame bigger government for falling living standards
Much of the cost-of-living malaise in Australia is the result of policies that have expanded the role of government at the cost of long-term productivity.
November 2024
- Opinion
- US Votes 2024
How Trump made the biggest political comeback possible
The sad thing about this dispiriting election campaign is that it hasn’t clarified America’s problems – it’s deepened them.
October 2024
- Opinion
- Global economy
This book changed the world. The West needs to read it again
More than three-quarters of a century after Friedrich Hayek faced trenchant opposition, the ideals he championed must be fought for once more.
January 2024
- Opinion
- Future Fund
Future Fund critics owe Costello an apology
The former Coalition treasurer had to fend off critics when he set the fund up, and is right to defend it now.
December 2023
- Opinion
- Foreign relations
Henry Kissinger was an inconsistent opportunist
America’s 20th century foreign policy giant and statesman was driven more by domestic considerations than he would ever have admitted.
September 2023
- Opinion
- Global economy
How Australia learnt the wrong lessons from the GFC
Kevin Rudd’s erroneous view that the catastrophe of 2008 was down to neoliberalism entered the political bloodstream here. We have been paying the price ever since.
July 2023
- Opinion
- Political leadership
Facts of life are conservative, but younger voters are lurching left
The problem for the Liberal Party is that, since the end of the Howard-Costello era, it has done very little to address the structural causes for the discontent of young Australians.
June 2022
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Liberals have regressed to big government
During the recent era of Coalition rule, the party of Howard and Costello rarely explained how growth comes from the private sector, entrepreneurship and innovation.
August 2021
- Opinion
- Fall of Kabul
A realistic decision to quit Kabul
America’s attempt to remake Afghanistan was a liberal illusion. Washington needs to look to its core great power interests instead.
July 2021
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
We cannot rebuild trust with China
Downplaying China’s objectives and underestimating US resolve will not help us navigate the biggest challenge of the 21st century.
March 2021
- Opinion
- John Howard
Does Morrison have Howard’s heart?
The PM’s reform challenges are harder than those of earlier decades. But he needs John Howard’s moral strength if he is to make a start.
January 2021
- Opinion
- Biden's White House
Can Biden really unite America? Probably not
During the past two decades, public life in the United States has undergone a terrible deterioration.
- Updated
November 2020
- Opinion
- China relations
Critics of Australia's China policy don't have much to offer
Rebuild 'trust'. Appease Beijing. Spurn our allies. There is some pretty poor advice being given on how the Morrison government should deal with an assertive China.
- Opinion
- US votes 2020
One thing is clear: America remains bitterly divided
The more disturbing issue is not who wins the presidency, but how they will they govern when the US is more polarised than at any time since the Civil War.
July 2020
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Thatcher, Reagan still point the way to a brighter future
The post-COVID years could be very grim without the transforming economic growth that the former British and US leaders became famous for creating.
- Opinion
- Defence
What would Owen Harries do?
Here's how one of the architects of Australia’s modern foreign policy would navigate the new and less benign strategic territory in the region.
June 2020
- Opinion
- Political leadership
History may be kinder to Julia Gillard
The country's first female prime minister achieved more than her conservative critics will acknowledge.
May 2020
The book you need if you want to understand China right now
As China-US relations deteriorate, a new book argues Washington and its allies should engage with Beijing instead of provoking it.
- Opinion
- Political leadership
PM is a serious man for serious times
A year after his miracle win, Scott Morrison has the chance to become a rare transforming prime minister.
March 2020
- Opinion
- Coronavirus pandemic
Let's put coronavirus to some good use
Bob Hawke and John Howard used crisis and shock to get things done that had waited too long. The Morrison government must turn this event into a platform for change as well.