Keeping the country safe is the first duty of government and should be the constant concern of those with responsibility for our well-being. I’m proud that the Abbott government successfully stopped uncontrolled people flows into our country that, in different circumstances, could have become an existential threat. I’m pleased that we swiftly rose to the…
REFORM IN THE AGE OF POPULISM – THE NEW BATTLELINES Wherever the Abbott government didn’t need to pass legislation through an intractable senate, decisions were made and decisions were put into practice: the boats were stopped; national security was strengthened; and a big project in limbo for decades, the Western Sydney airport, got underway. Right…
Published in the Daily Telegraph, 1 June 2017 The coroner’s report into the Lindt Café siege should be the wake-up call that Australia desperately needs. There was a litany of errors that ultimately led to the deaths of two innocent people at the hands of an Islamist fanatic: he should never have been granted refugee…