October 2023
- Opinion
- Voice to parliament
Depressed by the Voice debate? No wonder
This referendum is set to become another ugly chapter in Australian history, thanks to our politicians’ hypocrisy and opportunism.
- Laura Tingle
December 2022
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Chalmers must snuff out ACTU’s deplatforming of Productivity Commission
The treasurer has to harness the Productivity Commission against the returning curse of policy populism, clumsy government intervention and ‘sovereign’ protectionism that can only make Australia poorer.
- The AFR View
March 2022
- Analysis
- Platinum Year
The ‘China effect’: how the resources boom galvanised Australia
Galloping Chinese demand for our resources transformed the Australian economy in the first 10 years of the new millennium, but the GFC and end-of-decade political turmoil put the country on edge.
- Andrew Clark
January 2022
- Opinion
- Canberra Observed
Pandemic probe must look at the states too
A COVID-19 royal commission should go beyond what the Morrison government’s got right and wrong, and assess the track records of the premiers, medical bodies and their lobbyists.
- Phillip Coorey
August 2021
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Keating, Howard show good policy is good politics
The two living transformational shapers of postwar Australia should be leadership models for the current generation of politicians.
- The AFR View
July 2021
- Opinion
- Australia's China challenge
Cold warriors brew China fears and phobias
New myths are now being spread by Australia’s hawks to dismiss the idea that guileful diplomacy can provide a solution for the impasse with Beijing.
- James Curran
April 2021
- Opinion
- Anzac Day
How Anzac got lost in a cult of veneration
Politicians who wrap themselves in the flag of a generation of fallen have separated Anzac from the realities of modern Australia and the context of why these wars were fought.
- James Curran