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2016 holds hope for Republicans
Looking at the current crop of Republican presidential hopefuls, it's no wonder many conservatives are despondent. To call the field lacklustre is...
Crippled by its crutches
According to Ralph Norris, overseas investors are worried about the Gillard government. No matter how worried overseas investors are, they should...
The less Parliament sits, the better off we all will be
'We're getting on with the job.'' This has long been the standard response of Julia Gillard and her leadership team to questions about low poll...
The best way for the right to win culture wars is to privatise them
The best way for prime minister Tony Abbott to win the culture wars might actually be to withdraw the government from them. One of the greatest...
Lack of policy leadership in Australia
Leadership is still about "that vision thing." But it's also about being able to prosecute it within your sphere of influence for challenges you...
It's time for tax reform
Australians are over-taxed. And, to paraphrase Kerry Packer's immortal phrase, governments don't spend our money well enough to deserve any more of...
Bolt case highlights discriminatory act
The laws that allowed Andrew Bolt to be pursued through the courts for expressing an unfashionable opinion stifle freedom of speech and do not even...
One savings account we don't need
How could a Liberal support a sovereign wealth fund? A number of Liberal MPs have recently been publicly floating the idea of a sovereign wealth...
Is the nostalgia surrounding the Button Steel Plan misguided?
In late August, BlueScope Steel announced it would close a blast furnace in Port Kembla and a hot strip mill in Hastings, southern Victoria, as...
Award is work of many men
Sir Isaac Newton, that great creature of the Scientific Revolution, once humbly declared, ``If I have seen further it is by standing on the...