What was wrong with the polls?
Living with uncertainty is the thing most humans find most difficult. And while it’s virtually impossible to be certain even…
A case study: how energy policies kill jobs and business – and Labor will be worse
The fall into administration of Queensland company Claypave, established as Rylance Colliery and Brickworks in Ipswich in the 1880s, points…
What’s a girl got to do to get elected nowadays?
I’m wondering what a girl named Gladys has got to do to get elected nowadays. Winning Sky News debates is…
‘Learnings’ for the lead up to Friday’s student strike for climate change
Here’s an idea for English and Philosophy teachers for this coming Friday, March 15. Why don’t you do some Socratic…
The banking royal commission we still need
I originally thought the Financial Services Royal Commission was unnecessary. Then I heard the evidence, and I changed my mind.…
Labor’s housing affordability mess: profit for the few, pain for the many
Labor’s two-pronged housing affordability package has them rowing the same boat in both directions, expending a lot of taxpayer dollars…
Twenty ideas for a Morrison government
When Bill Shorten lost the last election he did a victory lap around Australia. He knew that if he could…
Belling the cat on electricity
In an inversion of the social hierarchy of Yes Minister, it would appear that Australia has at least one courageous…
The Australia Institute snubs the coal, hard facts
Advocacy is core business for think tanks, but when does advocacy become propaganda? When the think tank is the grandly…
Don’t ban donations, ban donations from crooks
“It’s the Bjelke-Petersen era again,” is the meme every time a centre-right party moots a policy on just about anything…
