People & associates
Tom Switzer
Adjunct Fellow
Tom Switzer is editor of the Spectator Australia, a research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, 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 Journal, The Spectator and Quadrant magazine. He has a Masters in International Relations at Sydney University.
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Identity crisis
IPA Review, June 2011 These are dark days for the Australian Labor Party. Its consistently bad opinion polls-the party's primary vote hovers in the early 30s-is but one of the symptoms of its seemingly incurable malaise. Just under a year ago,...
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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....
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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...
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