Salvatore Babones

The coronavirus crisis we never needed to have

8 June 2020 5:00 am

We can’t blame our leaders for being caught off-guard by the coronavirus; we all were. We can, however, hold our…

Never let a serious crisis lead to waste

8 April 2020 1:18 pm

Rahm Emanuel’s GFC quip about not wasting a crisis is resonating in the pandemic debate. Now as a news commentator,…

Counting the cost of coronavirus

24 February 2020 4:15 pm

It’s unprecedented for a public health crisis to disrupt the global economy, but China’s coronavirus epidemic is doing just that.…

Finally, some movement on the foreign student standards scandal

8 October 2019 5:00 am

Some of Australia’s most prestigious universities are starting to make sensible changes when it comes to international student recruitment. In…

How many international students are too many?

10 September 2019 5:00 am

The Centre for Independent Studies report ‘The China Student Boom and the Risks It Poses to Australian Universities’ presented the…

China notes

16 March 2019 9:00 am

Australia’s China obsession: get over it The Chinese economy is slowing, and everyone except the Chinese Communist Party knows it.…

Ramsay versus the Kaiser

16 February 2019 9:00 am

Politically active people don’t see eye-to-eye on many issues these days, but something they all seem to agree on is…

Western Civ: it’s not just for white people anymore

19 January 2019 9:00 am

When the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation generously offered to fund ‘Western Civ’ courses at Australian universities, critics at the…

Liberals, liberals everywhere

15 December 2018 9:00 am

It is often said that England and America are divided by a common language, and you might as well throw…