Overcoming Enmity and Restoring Tolerance. Antisemitism’s challenge for the civic compact
Foreword When the Book of Genesis speaks of enmity between the serpent and the descendants of Eve, it describes a …
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Progressive Intolerance. The contemporary antisemitism landscape in Australia
The evidence is comprehensive and damning. From universities to trade unions, from civil society organisations to arts institutions, there is a systematic pattern of hostility toward Jews going far beyond legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy.
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Future No Longer Made in Australia: How we lost our low-cost electricity advantage
Trouble has been brewing in Australia’s smelting paradise over the last two decades, as rising energy prices, carbon charges and foreign competition have taken their toll
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Reframing an Ancient Hatred: the intersection of left-wing antisemitism and anti-Zionism
Anti-Zionism has evolved to create a further mutation of antisemitism, cloaking bias and discrimination in the language of political critique. Lawfare is used as a tool to delegitimise Israel, and the media, particularly social media, is used to amplify narratives that vilify Jews and the Jewish state.
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Politics of Pressure: how government intervention left us short of gas
Introduction Australia’s natural gas sector has transformed dramatically between 1975 and 2025. What began as a series of isolated gas …
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Taxing Tobacco into Illegality: how split responsibilities and high excise created Australia’s tobacco wars
Executive Summary Australia’s tobacco control policy has reached a breaking point. For decades, bans on advertising and steady excise increases …
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Childcare in Australia: A new approach
Executive summary Several well-known bodies, from the Productivity Commission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the Minderoo Foundation and …
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Keeping Budgets on the Rails: Rules for Fiscal Responsibility
Executive Summary Fiscal rules are numerical limits to one or more of government spending, revenue, deficits and debt. Their use …
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Political legitimacy, harm protections and our freedoms
This article considers different concepts of ‘legitimacy’ and their contribution to understanding the difference between the power to govern, and the right to do so, comparing the very different models of legitimacy claimed in revolutionary America and France, and where Australia sits.
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The Unworkable Solution: An Economic Assessment of a Cashflow Tax for Australia
Executive Summary Australia faces persistent economic challenges. Productivity growth has slowed, business investment is uneven, and real wages have lagged …
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Trump’s goal to end Ukraine war makes moral sense
Friday’s heated exchange in the White House was surely a regrettable moment in American diplomatic history more akin to reality …
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Albanese could learn from Howard when it comes to Indonesia
Indonesian president-elect Prabowo Subianto visiting Australia before he has even been inaugurated is a positive sign. But the history of …
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It’s the most volatile election in living memory and anything can and will happen
In five decades of living alternately on the two sides of the Pacific, I have never seen anything like it. …
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NATO’s Prophetic Critics. Expanding the alliance has led to a war many experts predicted
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a chorus of government officials, academics, commentators, and retired bureaucrats and diplomats has dismissed …
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Why Republicans are sceptical about funding Ukraine
When US policy-makers supported Nato expansion in the 1990s, it was widely believed that America, as the sole remaining superpower, …
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The West’s bid to expand NATO eastwards was a mistake
For the people of Ukraine, the failure of Western nations to help them defeat Russia and end their suffering is …
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John Mearsheimer: ABC interview excerpts
While in Australia with the Centre for Independent Studies, John Mearsheimer took time to speak to ABC Radio’s Queensland Drive …
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Self-inflicted challenges hit West on four fronts
As 2022 draws to a close, most people will be glad to see the back of it. The post-Cold War …
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Partisan games stir up the divided states of America
US midterm elections are always a vote of confidence in incumbents, and this year’s midterms are expected to inflict severe …
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Xi: the loneliest man in the world
Australia is in trouble with China — again. This week the Chinese ambassador in Canberra, Xiao Qian, came close to …