Sinclair Davidson

The ESG trap

20 May 2023 4:12 am

While Australians have been distracted by the Voice to Parliament, nuclear submarines, and the Budget, ASIC recently followed through on…

Labor's housing plan: the monster is in the detail

9 May 2022 9:00 am

In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…

No campaign to arm ourselves against the government?*

11 July 2021 3:31 pm

The luvvies on Twitter are going wild because the government is unveiling a vaccination campaign that has a military officer…

A harsh lesson for our university chiefs

4 June 2021 4:13 pm

Education Minister Alan Tudge gave a speech at the annual Universities Australia conference yesterday. Here is how the AFR education editor described what…

Auntie’s fudge

17 May 2021 3:26 pm

I saw this on Twitter. It led me to a Guardian piece: ABC demands rightwing thinktank correct ‘misleading’ claims on public…

Victory? We’ve been outmanoeuvred by Facebook and Google

25 February 2021 3:16 pm

The federal parliament has passed the so-called ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’. Despite the name, and the…

Australia versus Google

22 January 2021 2:31 pm

The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running…

The self-interested inconsistencies of the RMIT-ABC Fact Check unit

19 July 2020 5:00 am

Two years ago the opposition was pushing a the-government-has-cut-funding line for aged care. It was a lie, of course, and,…

Is that tax policy or slapstick comedy?

23 June 2017 7:31 am

The relationship between taxpayers and government should be symbiotic – to the mutual benefit of each party. This is certainly…

High tax: the pillar of what civilisation?

16 June 2017 11:44 am

“Progressive” think tank Per Capita recently released the results of their annual tax survey. It turns out that 51.5 per…