Well thanks Tom. It’s wonderful to be here, it’s wonderful to be amongst so many great Australians. I’m particularly pleased that my state parliamentary colleague, Damien Tudehope, is here. I’m delighted that the former chairman of my Economic Advisory Council, Maurice Newman, is here. And I’m told that the former long serving secretary of the…
First published in The Daily Telegraph, 17 August 2018 Ask people what they want from energy policy and the answer, overwhelmingly, is lower power bills. In this week’s Newspoll, 63 per cent said the government’s priority should be cutting prices, 10 per cent preventing blackouts, and just 24 per cent reducing emissions. The message is pretty…
First published in The Spectator, 4 August 2018 This is Greg Sheridan’s best book because it is his bravest. He tackles an important subject in a challenging way and breaks cover about the things that really matter to him. Journalists, even those who mostly write commentary, normally retain a critical detachment from their subject matter….
To constitutional conservatives, plebiscites are an aberration, even an abomination. To me, they’re sometimes a way to resolve really big questions that do not require constitutional change. But I do agree that plebiscites are completely toxic for anything that can only be resolved by the people at a referendum. There have been three plebiscites in…