Fixing our civics education crisis
Young people know too little about how our democracy works, and we fail to teach democracy to immigrants. According to…
The Great Australian Empire of Nothing, according to some
As Dennis the peasant tells John Cleese, the King: ‘Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system…
Will Australia learn from the Doge Revolution?
During the 1990s, I claimed that the then federal ALP government was introducing a ‘US-style culture of litigation’. Then Attorney-General…
Our disordered world
Australians are a vastly successful people, but what will our children inherit from us? There are a lot of things…
Trump’s Australian revolution
The new US President, Donald J. Trump, has begun his term with a bang not a whimper, issuing a record…
Australia’s success, girt by sea and golden sands
Is the story of Australia a horn of plenty or a cornucopia which we systematically fail to celebrate each year…
Australians built a nation – has anyone noticed?
The 19th Century Prince of Sicily said in the wonderful novel The Leopard, ‘If we want things to stay as they…
How Australia began democracy
Nothing bad happened before Australian colonisation in 1788, or good after it. Apart from a modern first-world economy and democracy,…
