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Will we survive coronavirus financial fever?

4 April 2020 5:00 pm

It is truly staggering how quickly fortunes can change. At the beginning of this year, the economy was ticking along…

We can live just fine without ABC Life

28 February 2020 6:15 pm

Unlike many of you reading this, I find myself supportive of the concept of a public broadcaster. To my mind,…

ScoMo might be stumbling, but Albo’s caught between two stools

11 February 2020 5:00 am

It’s no secret that the Australian Labor Party is having elect-ile dysfunction problems. Since Paul Keating’s victory in 1993, the party has…

The minimum wage is madness

30 May 2019 11:46 am

In March this year, ACTU boss Sally McManus made headlines with her call for a six per cent increase in…

The Libs farewell free markets on electricity

11 December 2018 12:14 pm

I’m starting to wonder what the point of the Liberal Party actually is. I was until recently under the misapprehension…

How the Greens power plan would leave you in the red

2 October 2018 7:18 am

One of the under-reported stories to come out of last week was Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s address at the…

Should Australia engage more with China?

22 March 2018 12:45 pm

We live in an age of unprecedented geopolitical upheaval in the Asia Pacific. The American and Western hegemony in the…

The great immigration deceit

28 February 2018 7:59 am

Shortly after Angela Merkel’s nation-shaping decision to allow over a million migrants to enter Germany in 2015, her ministerial team…

Conservatives as conservationists

13 February 2018 2:00 pm

There appears to be a general consensus among self-described conservatives that environmental protection should be placed way down any list…

The “offended” are merely being challenged

5 February 2018 9:25 am

When discussing matters of free speech and offence, it is first necessary to draw a distinction between what is hate…

Who’s working for the working class? Not the left

29 January 2018 7:56 am

In May 2017, British Labour leader and self-confessed socialist Jeremy Corbyn refused to commit to reducing immigration if he won…

The house of review needs review

15 January 2018 8:37 am

Since federation in 1901, Australians have always known bicameral governance. With the nation’s constitution largely based on the American founding…