21 Aug2020

WA government has shifted the sands beneath Clive Palmer’s feet

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Today in The Australian

There is a great deal to dislike, and not much to like, in West Australia’s Iron Ore Processing (Mineralogy Pty Ltd) Agreement Amendment Act 2020, which overrides the outcomes of the state’s long-running dispute with Clive Palmer and extinguishes Palmer’s rights to damages.

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14 Aug2020

Waves of boomers will test aged-care foundations

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Today in The Australian

As our aged-care homes battle COVID-19, the sector’s longstanding problems have come dramatically to the fore.

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10 Aug2020

Problem is we’re not borrowing from the future, but taking from it

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Today in The Australian

As the deficits being incurred by Australian governments continue to spiral, the claim that we are “borrowing from the future” has become increasingly widespread.

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07 Aug2020

Our face work diminished, we cannot mask the cost

Posted in Op eds

Today in The Australian

“Are they any use?” Rambert, the journalist, asks in Camus’s The Plague when he is told to put on a mask of cottonwool enclosed in muslin before entering the hospital. No, not really, his guide replies, although they “inspire confidence in others”.

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31 Jul2020

Ridd decision abandons the point of universities

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Today in The Australian

A missed opportunity at best, an inconsistent and questionable judg­ment at worst, the decision of the full Federal Court in the dispute between Peter Ridd and James Cook University deserves to be reviewed by the High Court.

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24 Jul2020

Private enterprise the way out of this mess

Posted in Op eds

Today in The Australian

When the Menzies government took office in December 1949, Australia’s public debt stood at 120 per cent of GDP. By the time Robert Menzies retired, on Australia Day, 1966, that proportion had dropped below 50 per cent. With the Treasurer on Thursday announcing “eye-watering” debt and deficits, the lessons of that achievement deserve to be at the forefront of public attention.

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