Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?
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...
Divinely ordained neoliberalism: ex-PM’s mistrust of government is longstanding
For a man who has devoted most of his life trying to get into government, Scott Morrison sure has a low opinion of them....
Farewell to print — a billionaire plaything finally hits the wall
The Australian printing and magazine business has been a plaything of various billionaires over the years, from the Murdochs to the Packers to Kerry...
Why is the government ignoring expert advice on Covid?
There is an old joke about the global search for a one-armed economist, because when asked for an opinion the answer is often, “on...
Morrison’s Revelation: Australia has been living in a theocracy and we’re...
As the Liberal Party surveys the disaster of the 2022 election, it needs to read the sermon Scott Morrison delivered to Margaret Court’s church,...
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health....
This is Australia’s most important report on the environment’s deteriorating health. We present its grim findings
Emma Johnston, University of Sydney; Ian Cresswell, UNSW Sydney,...
Ministers’ diaries: taxpayers deserve transparency on what MPs are doing
The states that already allow their citizens to have some idea of what their highly paid ministers are doing are extending that transparency, yet...
The territory ahead of the states: ACT streaks to the fore...
To those who equate the ACT and federal governments as one and the same, it will come as a shock that, short of location-location,...
‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than...
‘Wellbeing’. It’s why Labor’s first budget will have more rigour than any before it
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
What if...
Jobs for mates is corruption. Dangerous corruption
Bernard Keane reports in CrikeyFor generations, jobs for mates — or what used to be labelled jobs for the boys — were treated as...
