Published in The Australian, 30 December 2016 Labor will be the biggest winner of any attempt to divide right-of-centre voters Not a single Liberal MP would be in the parliament without the party. We don’t owe the party slavish obedience but we certainly owe it respect and loyalty. That’s what John Howard used to say, and it’s certainly…
First published in The Spectator Australia, 29 December 2016 ‘To know how the world goes without America, look at Aleppo’. That’s the kind of insight (from the head of one of Israel’s security agencies) you get at the Australia-Israel-UK Leadership Dialogue. The brain-child of Melbourne businessman and jazz musician Albert Dadon, the Dialogue has been…
E&OE……………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Even as Australia’s Prime Minister, I spent many hours in schools and classrooms because education is the key to our future. While a frontbencher in the Australian Parliament, I actually spent three weeks as a teacher’s aide in a small school in a remote settlement. This is how it came about. Late…
E&OE……………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… For years knowledgeable friends had been urging me to visit Dubai. When I arrived here for the first time, in 2010, it was night – and I left before dawn – but even in the dark, the scale of what was happening was obvious. What had been, just 40 years earlier, a sleepy, dusty…