First published in The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 December 2018 The Liberal Party is convinced that free markets are by far the best way to generate wealth and thinks that allowing people to do what’s in their best commercial interests will usually maximise society’s economic well-being. But that doesn’t mean “anything goes”. The party has never believed…
First published in The Australian, 8 December 2018 To live in Australia is to have won the lottery of life — unless you happen to be one of those whose ancestors have been here for tens of thousands of years. That’s the Australian paradox. Vast numbers of people from around the world would risk death to be…
Back when prime minister, I used to observe, that to live in Australia is to have won the lottery of life – and that’s true – unless you happen to be, one-of-those whose ancestors had been here for tens of thousands of years. That’s the Australian paradox. Vast numbers of people from around the world…
First published in The Australian, 5 December 2018 When the Labor Party does good work, sensible Liberals give credit where it’s due. Back in 2008, working closely with Cape York leader Noel Pearson, the then minister for indigenous affairs, Jenny Macklin, and then Queensland premier Anna Bligh set up the Family Responsibilities Commission. Thereafter, there was always…
First published in Quadrant December 2018 Edition This is the age of disruption, in politics as much as in business, and political parties must respond or fail. In France and Italy the long-established big parties, of the Left and of the Right, have largely been swept away. In Germany, the main parties, of the Right…