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Am I my brother's keeper?
A Politician's Dilemma: an incident at Redcliffe 1994. On a bright and sunny day, at a time when I was a Minister in the Labor government of Prime...
Academic Freedom Has Lengthy Funeral
'Islands of repression in a sea of freedom'. This striking phrase was coined a few years ago by the American scholar Abigail Thernstrom to describe...
Jeff's $2b is Taxing Issue
The Kennett Government faces it biggest challenge yet, which is to pursue and sell the benefits of a low-tax environment. Over the last seven years...
Security Lies in ANZAC Tradition
In 1917, in a shell hole in France, a dying lieutenant employed his last minutes to instruct my father on the immediate safety of the platoon. Such...
Churches Risk Squandering Their Moral Authority
In Britain, people used to say that the Church of England was the Conservative Party at prayer. In Australia the major Christian denominations are...
Matters of Fact or Fiction?
If you produce a booklet that is supposed to counter public ignorance and prejudice, your own information must be accurate, and you have to be...
Tax Reforms Have Drawbacks
Two major proposals for tax reform are soon to be put on the table: the Government's and the BCA lead business/welfare consortium's. Enough has...
Taxing Tome Signal's Labor's Renewal
A Review of Civilising Global Capital: new thinking for Australian Labor by Mark Latham 'Formidable' is the adjective that comes to mind when...
Unfinished Business
There is a rather pleasing irony in last Wednesday's High Court ruling that the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act is valid. Those who had been trying to...
Privatisation is Best Bet for Power Assets
In spite of election commitments, the South Australian Government has bitten the bullet and taken the road to electricity privatisation. Premier...