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Response to Cynthia Banham
Letter to the Editor: While I am delighted that Cynthia Banham, in her piece on the IPA conference on the ABC (The Trouble with Aunty, April 2),...
The Stolen Reputation
Four years ago, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission released Bringing Them Home, the report of its inquiry into the distressing...
Bush Gives Howard a Green Light
The Commonwealth Government has a ready opportunity to fill the $185 million hole in its budget as a result of the backdown on beer excise....
Club Virtue: The Intelligentsia We Deserve?
Of all the shameless untruths which disfigure Australian public debate, none is greater than the claim or implication that the welfare state is...
Paying the Price of a Western Fantasy
All nations have their myths. The ones to our immediate north and north east---Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu---like to pretend...
Bridge Too Far for Politicians to Reconcile
In the South Australian town of Goolwa earlier this month, I took part in the nation's first 'politically incorrect' walk for reconciliation. It...
The Coalition's Cultural Incompetence
Part of the problem for the Coalition is that its cultural opponents are shameless liars. It is a lie that there was a 'stolen children' genocide,...
Forget the economy, it's about the culture, stupid
Whether in government (Western Australia) or in Opposition (Queensland), the Coalition is being punished. It faces the prospect of One Nation...
Subtle Bias to Polling Groups
A fortnight ago, nearly 350 people, supposedly chosen at random to reflect the nation as a whole, spent a weekend at Old Parliament House in...
Keating's dopey tax plan
Letter to the Editor: Paul Keating accused the Institute of Public Affairs of being dopey on tax reform ('Dopey Right wakes up on tax', AFR,...