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Sequel to Copenhagen Resembles the Remake of a Bad Movie
One year after the Copenhagen climate change circus, the Gillard government is being dragged by the Greens towards policies that are out of step...
WikiLeaks and the virtue of transparency
WikiLeaks's release of American diplomatic cables "may put lives at risk". The White House spokesman Robert Gibbs claims that the release may...
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...