Closing Opportunities, Not Loopholes
A review of the proposed new ‘Closing Loopholes’ bill and its laws regarding labour hire, casual employment, and the gig …
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Bungles, Blowouts and Boondoggles: why Australia’s infrastructure projects cost more than they should
Introduction A large amount of taxpayers’ money, state and federal, is expended on large scale infrastructure that is intended to …
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Job-ready Graduates 2.0: The Universities Accord and centralised control of universities and courses
Summary Australia’s graduate labour market does not always seem to function well. Graduates with degrees in some fields struggle to …
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Bracket creep hits young Australians hardest
Bracket creep chips away at living standards, especially those of younger generations, a new Issue Analysis by Centre for Independent …
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The Need For Speed: why fluency counts for maths learning
1. Introduction Australia has a problem in maths achievement which is shown in stark relief by the declining number of …
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Conduct Becoming. The importance of the Behaviour Curriculum
Introduction Behaviour in many schools in the UK is often far below what it could be — or what parents …
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Teaching Behaviour: How Classroom Conduct Can Unlock Better Learning
Introduction In Australia, and in education settings across the world, student behaviour and levels of student engagement are significant issues …
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Debunking Degrowth
Introduction Increasingly there are calls for degrowth, not just to abandon the pursuit of economic growth, but to shrink economies. …
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The Rental Crisis. Submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee
Rents are too high. This leads to homelessness, rental stress, long commutes, overcrowding, and a host of other social problems. …
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2023 John Bonython Lecture: Questioning Orthodoxies
Introduction I have the great honour and distinction of introducing the 2023 John Bonython Lecturer, Jason Riley. Jason is a …
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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 …
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After Ukraine, America must get creative
“The process of coming to grips with one’s limits is never easy,” Henry Kissinger once wrote about the American experience …
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Re-vamping the Pacific: will Australia ‘step up’ or ‘step out’?
In 2014, I wrote a short piece on the Pacific Islands that found its way, surprisingly, across the globe and into the Bangladeshi …
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Turnbull had the right idea on China
It’s important, in the interests of constructive debate, to recognise when political leaders who have been the object of serious criticism in the past turn out to have done something right and to praise them fully for it.
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Brits beat us to an independent pandemic inquiry
While Australia can beat the Brits in cricket, the Brits have beaten us in mounting an independent inquiry into government handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dark times ahead as Australia faces crisis on crisis
I used to be an optimist about the world but now I am depressed. When I was born in the early 1970s, the popular wisdom warned that, unless prompt and drastic action was taken to limit population and industrial growth and to end nuclear weapons, the world would face disaster by the end of the 20th century.
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Ties between Delhi and Canberra crucial to Indo-Pacific security
The relationship between India and Australia has grown rapidly in recent years, underpinned by a convergence of security interests in …