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Result shows Liberal Party a broad church
Assuming Ted Baillieu pulls off victory following Saturday's decisive swing, both the new government and the Liberal Party will have to act quickly...
Stormy westher ahead as Washington loses sway
When Barack Obama replaced George W. Bush in the White House, it was assumed the character of US foreign policy would change dramatically. ...
Set our universities free
Julia Gillard's government gets easily distracted. The big issues for her this week have been things like gay marriage, sport on television and the...
The Ashes are important at any age
The old Jesuit saying 'give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man' could, in my case, be paraphrased as 'give the child...
In response to Graham Readfearn
It was very kind of Graham Readfearn to out me as one of a small group of ideologues who have frustrated climate change policy in Australia -...
If marriage is so good, why not invite everyone in?
It didn't take much for a wave of pro-gay marriage sentiment to echo through the socially liberal wing of the Labor Party. A Greens motion that...
Rise of the right a crisis for social democracy
Across the world, left-wing governments are struggling in the wake of the GFC. It wasn't meant to be this way. When the global financial crisis...
Staring through the Greens' populist prism
In The Drum last week, Liberal shadow minister Kevin Andrews described the Greens as little more than Marxists for Forests. The Victorian Liberal...
Single authority no panacea for Victorian public transport
Despite scarcely rating a mention in the leaders' debate, public transport is clearly a crucial issue in this month's Victorian election. It might...
Self-doubt emerges to test US mettle
THERE are several explanations for the Democrats' loss in last week's mid-term elections. Some attribute the shellacking to an anti-incumbent mood....