Originally published in the Australian, 23 February 2018 One thing I am not going to cop is gratuitous criticism from ministers who are only in government because I led them there. It is the prime minister’s right to choose his ministerial team and, given some of the policies of this government, I’m happy to serve…
Australian politics is at a low ebb for many reasons but one is our tendency to tell other people how to do their jobs rather than to get on with our own. A classic instance was the Queensland premier’s recent demand for a national approach to anti-bullying in schools. But unlike Queensland, the federal government does not…
Originally published in The Australian, 1 February 2018 One of the current government’s great successes has been border protection policy. Given the scale of the people smuggling that had developed under the former Labor government, not even the original architects of border protection, John Howard and Philip Ruddock, thought it could be done. But very…