When adults tell children to make Greta Thunberg their role model. I don't get to choose the headline for my column in The Australian Financial Review. On Thursday mornings, once a fortnight, I email my 700 words into the AFR, and then in the afternoon, I go online [...]

Thoughts on the Coalition disaster. After my Australian Financial Review column appeared on the weekend, I got a text from a friend saying he'd read it, found it interesting, but I was being melodramatic. He said the condition of the Liberal Party wasn't as bad as I'd made [...]

Thoughts on the Coalition disaster. I spent last Saturday on the polling booth at St Columba College in Andrews Farm in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. I was handing out How To Vote cards for my colleague at the Institute of Public Affairs, Daniel Wild who was the [...]

And it's staggering what the media finds staggering. This time next week, Australians could be suffering a bad case of buyer's remorse. Maybe the Coalition could still win and miracles do happen. In 2019, Scott Morrison said on election night he had 'always believed in miracles'. But two [...]

with squabbles over competing giveaways'. I have no intention today of repeating Mr Howard's irresponsible spending spree… Unlike Mr Howard, I don't stand before you with a bag full of irresponsible promises that could put upward pressure on inflation. Today, I am saying loud and clear that this [...]

Peter Dutton's first week of the election campaign. I can't understand it. Labor is just so bad. Why aren't we 10 points up and heading for a landslide? That's the first line of my AFR column this week. It's word-for-word what a long-time Liberal Party member asked me [...]

My column in the Financial Review on Friday was about Peter Dutton's suggestion of a referendum to allow the government to deport dual citizens convicted of serious crimes. I said that while the idea had some merit, with a federal election a few days away from being called, it [...]

New research on parliamentarians' backgrounds shows exactly what you'd expect. I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University. William F Buckley Jr Years ago I wrote a column, 'In defence [...]

Australia's civics and citizenship education is destroying democracy. Within these circles, Australia is best known for its strict response to the pandemic, as well as new hate speech laws and the Australian government's tendency to refuse visas to people who may be planning to utter controversial statements on [...]