At a small event at the Productivity Commission last week, visiting Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz was talking about revolution.
He said the free market and small government ideology that has had America and...
The states that already allow their citizens to have some idea of what their highly paid ministers are doing are extending that transparency, yet resistance to meeting diaries continues elsewhere.
Queensland and NSW have ministerial...
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick in 2017 (Image: AAP/Evan Agostini/Invision)The Uber Files confirmed what had long been reported: top executives knowingly flouted the law to run a venture capital-fuelled war against workers’ rights, public transport...
Michael West writesScott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg, no doubt with the counsel of Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce, repelled calls for a Qantas “bail-out” in early April 2020.
Yet, just as the pandemic gripped, they...
Bernard Keane writes in The GuardianSeveral long-term trends are now intersecting in a way that is going to deepen economic divisions in Australia, as well as undermine growth ahead of what may become a...
Barry Ferguson wrote Competing for Influence: The role of the public service in better government in Australia and argues today:
Since it was promised by the Morrison government in 2018, some form of national integrity...
By John MenadueDenis Muller puts it this way in The Conversation
What does a democracy do when a dominant news media organisation goes rogue during an election campaign? In 2022, News Corporation is confronting Australia...