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John Roskam
Even back bench pushing to cut taxes
In recent months, a new voice has been added to the call for the coalition to cut personal income tax rates. Government MPs are the latest group to...
Right or left, it comes down to social capital
Over the Christmas break, John Howard and Mark Latham will both be contemplating the same question - what's next? The process of economic reform...
Radical change not the Liberal way
Most political analysis in Australia is of a personal and short-term nature. That is why so much discussion about the 2004 federal election result...
Why Howard is Menzies' heir
The Prime Minister has not moved to the right. It is the moral middle class that has moved to the left. The claim that under John Howard the...
Critics go overboard, voters unimpressed
"The electorate will render its judgement accordingly." John Howard's political hero, Robert Menzies, once said that if 12 people witnessed a car...
David Kemp: a Liberal for all seasons
David Kemp's retirement from politics marks the end of a family tradition unique in Australia. In the 1940s his father, Charles, wrote the...
Howard Must Reveal His Vision
Only two of Australia's twenty-five prime ministers---Robert Menzies and Bob Hawke---have won more than three elections. The scale of what the...
Time to Get Into Party Spirit
This week the ACTU is meeting to finalise its election strategy against the Howard government. Doug Cameron, the left-wing union leader, was...
A New Education Myth: Latham's Reform Plans
Mark Latham's policy that good teachers in bad schools should be paid more is a good idea. It represents a recognition from the Labor Party that...
Turnbull a force for change
Not often can members of either the Liberal Party or the Labor Party claim with a reasonable degree of certainty that they have preselected not...