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Tom Switzer

Portrait of Tom Switzer

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Tom Switzer is a former Senior Adviser to the federal Opposition Leader, Opinion Editor of The Australian, an editorial writer at the Australian Financial Review and an Assistant Editor at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. He has also been a regular contributor to the Wall Street JournalThe Spectator and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations at Sydney University.

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New world leaders and the politics of power

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

IPA Review | March 2009 In early 2008, David Cameron said he greatly admired Barack Obama and pledged to bring some of the same uplifting spirit of change and renewal that the American Democrat generated in the US to the British political scene....

Nixon as culture warrior

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

IPA Review | March 2009 Tom Switzer reviews Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein (Scribner, 2008, 881 pages) Richard Milhous Nixon was born into a modest, working-class Protestant family. He worked at...

Public attitudes toward foreign investment

OCCASIONAL PAPER | Tom Switzer

Everything's changed? The Liberals have locked conservative government

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

It's still their ABC

IPA REVIEW ARTICLE | Tom Switzer

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Our Nixonian PM

Governance & Service Provision | Tom Switzer
The Spectator 3rd February, 2010

‘At one time or another, he had espoused almost every worthy principle, often repeatedly,' Newsweek once observed of Richard Nixon....

Obama a victim as Americans struggle to accept a lesser role

Governance & Service Provision | Tom Switzer
The Age 22nd January, 2010

If a week is a long time in politics, then a year is an eternity. Twelve months ago, Barack Obama's presidential inauguration completed a political...

The Climate is Changing

Economics & Deregulation, Governance & Service Provision and Climate Change | Tom Switzer
Wall Street Journal 12th January, 2010

When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many people do, that man-made global warming is destroying Planet Earth. I mean that the...

Don't expect too much down Mexico way

Economics & Deregulation, Food & Environment, Energy and Climate Change | Tom Switzer
The Australian 1st January, 2010

It has been said that Copenhagen was all about attitudes and aspirations and the meeting this year in Mexico City will be about results. But...

How Rudd Is Undoing The Aussie Miracle

Governance & Service Provision | Tom Switzer
Far Eastern Economic Review 8th November, 2009

As the world searches for new models to address the after-effects of the global financial crisis, Australia deserves a closer look. The country is...