A council energy scheme puts full procurement terms behind an NDA, raising hard questions about public accountability.
Australians want restrictions on killing babies in the womb… and the political class needs to answer for ignoring them.
Wyoming’s latest proposal would deny foreign speech regulators the help of its courts and officials. Canberra should take notice.
This week, the Senate has continued debate about the ‘urgent’ $42 billion spending package proposed by the Rudd Government. We
This week is marked by tragedy and will forever be recorded in the annals of Australian history. It gives all
Parliament has resumed this week amid a deteriorating economic environment and the Government has announced a massive fiscal stimulus that
This piece appeared in The Advertiser, 6 January 2009 Australia is facing a number of immediate and future challenges. Yet
This column was published in the Adelaide Advertiser, 25 April 2007. It caused quite a stir and prompted my interest in writing.
There is a saying that “a week is a long time in politics”. You can only imagine how long a
In politics, as in many areas of modern life, the detail can often be forgotten amongst the spin. Seldom do
I might surprise you today. For someone who is a confirmed conservative and has an internet reputation as ‘the man
The Rudd Government has told Australians to ‘spend, spend, spend!’ Mr Rudd has even handed out $8.7 billion in
The Prime Minister has finally uttered the dreaded word that Labor governments are all too familiar with. Deficit. More specifically
In a recent essay on the future of the Liberal Party, I wrote: “National service in its many forms: time
It was interesting listening to the critics’ reviews of the new Baz Luhrmann film Australia this morning. Whilst the usual
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