Dimitri Burshtein

It’s Albo, stupid

22 March 2025 9:00 am

We are in dire economic straits

The pustulating carbuncle that is the NBN

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Now we’re throwing even more good money after bad

Our slowing and deformed economy

2 November 2024 9:00 am

Blame it on the commissars of Canberra

Sandwich stimulus: Miles is a bad comedy

21 October 2024 4:36 pm

Although commonly attributed to Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman, the expression, ‘there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch’ long…

Stupid policy is as stupid government does

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Jim Chalmers & negative gearing

Being Chauncey Chalmers

14 September 2024 9:00 am

‘There will be growth in the spring’. Or not.

Greens poisonous alchemy

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Turning wealth into poverty

Eyes wide shut

31 August 2024 9:00 am

Economic downturn there for all to see

Assistant Minister for a Banana Republic

10 August 2024 9:00 am

Albanese is destroying the Australian economy

Aussie life

27 July 2024 9:00 am

According to Treasurer Jim Chalmers, increasing competition among supermarket giants will help deliver lower grocery prices. ‘If it is more…

Disabling our economy

6 July 2024 9:00 am

The NDIS is a financial disaster

Nothing modest about Chalmers’ changes

14 October 2023 9:00 am

Superannuation is yet again under direct attack

Housing policy built on dodgy foundations

7 October 2023 9:00 am

Government hasn’t got a clue about the economics of renting

Aukus is out of the bag

29 March 2023 7:00 am

Aukus is out of the bag. The Albanese government has committed Australia to spend nearly $370 billion over the next…

Beware the land tax swap

12 November 2022 9:00 am

Homeowners will be the big losers

Summit notes

10 September 2022 9:00 am

The death last week of Mikhail Gorbachev was an apt precursor to the Jobs and Skills Summit, Australia’s attempt at…

The wisdom of the Solomon Islands

7 May 2022 9:00 am

Don’t say we haven’t been warned

Why Ukraine matters to Australia

26 February 2022 9:00 am

China will be watching closely

What has liberalism ever done for us?

18 July 2021 5:30 pm

Liberal civil society stands at a critical point where a choice must be made; whether to evict the barbarians from the citadel or…

China’s concerning Covid diplomacy

3 June 2021 4:00 am

Covid-19 has so far caused the deaths of near three and a half million globally and led to significant social and…

If you want peace, prepare for war

30 April 2021 4:00 am

This past weekend, Australian Defence Minister Peter Dutton suggested that a conflict with China over Taiwan could not be discounted.  However,…

Fighting over chips: why Taiwan matters

9 March 2021 4:00 am

Throughout the course of human history, there have been wars over land, water, food, commodities and even pride. Unless there…

The Taiwan tango: a delicate dance for Australia

4 February 2021 4:00 am

It is done. Joseph Robinette Biden Jr has been inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States and has his feet firmly…

Sun Tzu and the Art of Trade

9 December 2020 5:00 am

Around 2,500 years ago, Chinese general and strategist Sun Tzu wrote his masterpiece, the Art of War.  This treatise is…

Trade with Chinese characteristics?

11 November 2020 7:25 am

Wine. Barley. Beef. Lobsters. Sugar. Timber. Copper. Thermal coal. These are important Australian exports which are increasingly being used as…