October 2023
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.
December 2022
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.
March 2022
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.
January 2022
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.
August 2021
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.
July 2021
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.
April 2021
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.