In The Australian today
Barack Obama is right to call Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris an attack on humanity. But they are first and foremost an Islamist attack on the West. And it is only by destroying radical Islam that we can end the ever-escalating savagery that threatens our cities, our culture and our way of life.
09 Nov2015
Labor’s strategy over the NBN must be harpooned
In The Australian today:
“People died last time you were in charge”, senator Stephen Conroy, mad-eyed as Ahab and trembling with fury, barked at Bill Morrow, the chief executive of NBN Co, when Morrow, at a parliamentary committee late last month, questioned Conroy’s assertions about the company’s performance.
“People died last time you were in charge”, senator Stephen Conroy, mad-eyed as Ahab and trembling with fury, barked at Bill Morrow, the chief executive of NBN Co, when Morrow, at a parliamentary committee late last month, questioned Conroy’s assertions about the company’s performance.
07 Nov2015
Tax reform: Scare campaign will be Turnbull’s stress test
In The Australian today
With tough economic choices looming, coming weeks will see the Turnbull government face its first real stress test. For all his weaknesses, Bill Shorten thrives on galvanising the frightened, the resentful and the ill-informed: and even the merest suggestion of any serious tax reform will offer him a feast of opportunities for mischief.
With tough economic choices looming, coming weeks will see the Turnbull government face its first real stress test. For all his weaknesses, Bill Shorten thrives on galvanising the frightened, the resentful and the ill-informed: and even the merest suggestion of any serious tax reform will offer him a feast of opportunities for mischief.
02 Nov2015
IMF’s gift to anti-coal jihadis is vastly overvalued
In The Australian today
Widely cited claims by the International Monetary Fund that subsidies to fossil fuels amount to a staggering 6.5 per cent of global income have been savaged by David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, in a letter to London’s Financial Times published on Friday.
Widely cited claims by the International Monetary Fund that subsidies to fossil fuels amount to a staggering 6.5 per cent of global income have been savaged by David Henderson, former chief economist of the OECD, in a letter to London’s Financial Times published on Friday.
26 Oct2015
Partisan Chris Bowen goes too far in praise of Wayne Swan
In The Australian today:
It may be symptomatic of that “instinctive distaste for the past” that historian Keith Hancock thought characterised Australians that there is no official history of the Treasury. Chris Bowen’s The Money Men doesn’t claim to fill that gap, but it does provide vivid and insightful portraits of some of our more prominent treasurers.
It may be symptomatic of that “instinctive distaste for the past” that historian Keith Hancock thought characterised Australians that there is no official history of the Treasury. Chris Bowen’s The Money Men doesn’t claim to fill that gap, but it does provide vivid and insightful portraits of some of our more prominent treasurers.
24 Oct2015
Trudeau beats Harper but Canada could prove hard to change
Today in The Australian
As he prepares to leave 24 Sussex Drive, the large, somewhat dilapidated, limestone house in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa that is the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers, Stephen Harper remains an enigmatic figure.
As he prepares to leave 24 Sussex Drive, the large, somewhat dilapidated, limestone house in the New Edinburgh neighbourhood of Ottawa that is the official residence of Canada’s prime ministers, Stephen Harper remains an enigmatic figure.