The curse of short horizons can afflict even the best prime ministers. Yet the Albanese government betrays no ambition for long-term reform. It betrays little ambition for anything beyond winning the next election.
The idea that a law that creates more red tape can boost productivity is counterintuitive, to say the least. Yet Anthony Albanese claimed exactly that last week.
There is increasing evidence the US has reached the point of peak renewables, as the pool of private investors shrinks and winning community approval becomes harder.
No post-war prime minister has tested the limits of public acceptance of an active migration policy as much as Anthony Albanese
Setting aside the questionable proposition that governments can stop the march of inflation by throwing money in its path, the ever-growing government spending on childcare raises far more important family policy questions that few are game to ask.
A timid Labor leadership, lacking intelligence and imagination, is taking its party back to three-eyed fish land, a country where dogma, superstition and tribalism prevent it from embracing the only proven source of low-emission energy available at scale.
After years of being misconstrued, so-called populist leaders are beginning to bring a new clarity to the debate by defining themselves and identifying the globalist project that they strongly oppose.
Bowen was remarkably sanguine last week at the Press Club about the implosion of Andrew Forrest’s green hydrogen plan. Hours later, Twiggy’s Fortescue Metals was kicking its target down the road to Never Never Land.
The attack on the former president was an attempt to achieve what scores of lawyers and millions of legal dollars have failed to do by definitively ending his chances of a second term.
By perpetuating arcane distinction, the activist left has constructed a false moral spectrum, ranging from selfless social justice crusaders to brown-shirted, goose-stepping thugs.
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