John Slater

Royally irresponsible

2 March 2019 9:00 am

Over the past year, a belief has taken hold that the main driver of wrongdoing in our banking and financial…

Making a hash of the climate debate

8 December 2018 9:00 am

According much of the media, last Friday’s climate change ‘strike’ staged by school students across Australia was an epoch-making moment…

Australian schools: reading, writing and revolution

23 November 2018 1:47 pm

Revelations this week that schoolteacher Regina Wilson had vowed to “ensure that the next generation of voters in my classroom…

Julia Gillard’s dropouts

29 September 2018 9:00 am

In 2008, Julia Gillard announced that the Rudd government’s policy of uncapping university places marked the start of ‘a higher…

Tin foil hats and the top end of town

14 July 2018 9:00 am

You have to wonder what Paul Keating will be thinking as the invitations to attend Labor fundraisers and campaign events…

Manipulating Facebook

21 April 2018 9:00 am

Judging by the way Mark Zuckerberg was cross-examined before Congress last week, you’d think Facebook was on the brink of…

Unlearning truth

23 September 2017 9:00 am

Nearly ten months on, the University of Sydney appears to be coming to grips with the fact that Donald Trump…

Up the pointy end

5 August 2017 9:00 am

Bill Shorten has ramped up Labor’s efforts to stoke envy among the many by maligning the success of the few,…

What’s so bad about 457 visas?

21 April 2017 12:04 pm

Malcolm Turnbull claims the Government’s abolition of the 457 visa in favour of more stringent entry requirements for skilled migrants…

The dangerous narcissism of Earth Hour

25 March 2017 2:50 pm

Around this time in March each year, millions of people in developed countries spend 60 minutes of their lives reeling…

Time to get tough on business-union sleaze

24 March 2017 6:25 pm

Nearly sixteen months after Dyson Heydon handed down his final report following the Royal Commission into Trade Union Corruption, Malcolm…

Copping it sweet

11 March 2017 9:00 am

New research from the University of Melbourne claiming a tax on soft drink could add 1.2 years of healthy life…

Will the government miss another free kick from the union movement?

9 March 2017 6:54 pm

Today thousands of CFMEU members across Australia took the day off work to march in solidarity with retail and hospitality…

Copping it sweet

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

New research from the University of Melbourne claiming a tax on soft drink could add 1.2 years of healthy life…

Bill borrows from Trump’s protectionist playbook

21 February 2017 7:34 am

Donald Trump’s ascendancy has provided ample fodder for left-leaning politicians, GetUp! and other aggrieved members of the activist class seeking…

A lecture from UQ on diversity and tolerance – not

6 February 2017 7:27 am

Lofty notions of free enquiry, open debate and tolerance are paid no shortage of lip service in Australian universities. In…

Make Australia Great Again

7 January 2017 9:00 am

 1. Slash Corporate Tax. The centrepiece of the Coalition’s re-election pitch was the ‘enterprise tax plan’ which will see Australia’s…

Derryn Hinch and the ABCC: Shame, shame, shame!

1 December 2016 5:20 pm

Malcolm Turnbull and Michaelia Cash have boasted that the long-awaited passage of the Government’s ABCC bills is a ‘fundamental economic…

Registered Organisations Bill a win for workers

22 November 2016 4:19 pm

Monday’s long awaited passage of the Registered Organisations Bill has been touted as a much-needed win for the Turnbull Coalition…

Do words Trump facts?

29 October 2016 8:11 am

To dispense with the obvious, Donald Trump’s recently aired commentary about his extra-marital escapades are ill befitting of any serious…

Time to Ged real about the CFMEU

20 October 2016 5:27 pm

On Monday’s Q&A, ACTU leader Ged Kearney claimed that the Government’s proposed reinstatement of the ABCC was about ‘union breaking’…

I don’t give a Gonski and neither should you

3 September 2016 9:00 am

Ask anyone from Malcolm Turnbull down to the fedora-wearing Socialist leafleting on the corner of Flinders Street Station and odds…

The Shoppies’ sellout

2 September 2016 9:28 pm

The Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association  — affectionately known as the ‘Shoppies’ – is under fire from employer groups…

Free speech is too important to be trusted to lawyers

28 August 2016 5:06 pm

On last week’s Q&A, comedian turned mature age law student Corinne Grant shed light on perhaps the most compelling reason…

Deconstructing the construction unions

30 July 2016 9:00 am

The Coalition may have prised a slim majority from the jaws of electoral defeat, but the fate of Australia’s construction…