Peter Van Onselen

Dr Peter van Onselen has been the Contributing Editor at The Australian since 2009. He is also a professor of politics and public policy at the University of Western Australia and was appointed its foundation chair of journalism in 2011. Peter has been awarded a Bachelor of Arts with first class honours, a Master of Commerce, a Master of Policy Studies and a PhD in political science. Peter is the author or editor of six books, including four best sellers. His biography on John Howard was ranked by the Wall Street Journal as the best biography of 2007. Peter has won Walkley and Logie awards for his broadcast journalism and a News Award for his feature and opinion writing.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - DECEMBER 15: The hands and mask of New South Wales Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant are seen during a Covid-19 update on December 15, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. NSW has reported 1360 new COVID-19 cases and one death in the last 24 hours. It is the highest daily case total in three months. COVID-19 restrictions have eased further across NSW, including rules for unvaccinated people. From today, masks are only required on public transport and in airports, or for indoors front-of-house hospitality staff who are not fully vaccinated. QR code check-ins are only required for high risk venues including hospitals, aged and disability care facilities, gyms, places of worship, funerals, personal services, pubs and clubs and outdoor music festivals with over 1,000 people. Density limits have dropped for all settings, and restrictions are now uniform across the state regardless of a person's vaccination status. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

A royal commission into Covid can’t wait

The handling of the pandemic including the money spent, the debt accumulated, the rights curtailed and the squabbles between states must be examined in the national interest.

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Without innovation, our luck will run out

Canberra squabbles and backsliding on policy agendas from one election to the next has defined the years since John Howard’s removal.

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EMBARGO FOR TWAM 08 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Member of the First Nations Referendum Working Group Marcia Langton speaks to the media during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, March 23, 2023. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

To get to Yes, try a little respect, not hectoring

When voters are weighing up whether to support change, they don’t want to be told they are racist or idiots who don’t understand the issue if they don’t vote for the voice.

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Another US expert has warned that a recession is now all but inevitable. Picture: iStock

Chance of a recession now a coin toss

The Brittany Higgins, Katy Gallagher and Lidia Thorpe affair is a sideshow compared with the economic challenges our nation faces.

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SYDNEY - NCA Newswire, Wednesday 07th June 2023 - Governor Philip Lowe addresses the Morgan Stanley Australia Summit held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Christian Gilles

Recession to hit us with the shock of our lives

Working Australians under 40 may be about to experience a version of 1991 first-hand, depending on how our leaders manage the immense challenges ahead.

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos, SEPTEMBER 26, 2022. Crowds in Melbourne as the Australia's changing population statistics released by Australian Bureau of Statistics. Picture : NCA NewsWire / David Crosling

A better way to manage a bigger Australia

Politicians will need to take their roles as chief policymakers more seriously if the nation is to meet the challenge of high levels of immigration.

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PERTH , AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos May 13 2022. West Australian Premier Mark McGowan delivers his state budget in Parliament. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Sharon Smith ,

McGowan departs at the peak of his powers

Mark McGowan has done his state colleagues a favour, suddenly retiring on his own terms, even if they don’t see it that way right now.

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Network 10’s long term viability in the news

Even though Channel 10 has long been the minnow of Australian commercial TV when CBS (now Paramount) took the little Aussie battler over a few years back I assumed its future was bright. I’m not so sure now.

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(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on May 05, 2023 shows former US President Donald Trump in Columbia, South Carolina, on January 28, 2023 and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in Hialeah, Florida, on November 7, 2022. - He is young, scandal-free, and a darling of conservatives for his embrace of an "anti-woke" agenda that has fueled his meteoric rise within the Republican Party. Yet, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has failed to lay a glove on Trump in the race to challenge President Joe Biden for the White House in 2024, baffling observers who see the twice-impeached former president as eminently beatable. (Photo by Logan Cyrus and Eva Marie UZCATEGUI / AFP)

DeSantis may be Republicans’ lesser evil

The Florida governor is more likely to beat Joe Biden than Donald Trump in a White House race but first he has to get through the primaries.

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ABC Q+A host Stan Grant on his final show on Monday, May 22, 2023, before taking indefinite leave. Picture: ABC

ABC bosses ‘jump the shark’

Muddying the waters is a common strategy in politics. That’s what ABC management has tried to do in its self-defence in Stan Grant’s coronation case.

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