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John RoskamFinancial Review |
The opposition leader knows the better path to social cohesion in an increasingly diverse community is to find what Australians have in common.
Media-manufactured moral panics come and go. That so many Labor and Coalition politicians have succumbed to this latest one, so unthinkingly, is...
The lesson for Peter Dutton is not to copy the Donald – which in an Australian context would be impossible anyway. What he must be, though, is...
During the pandemic, few Australians were brave enough to say “stop”. We can hope for a different future, but there’s no sign things will be...
The vibrant republican sentiment of the 1980s has been replaced by a dour, downbeat guilt-ridden version in the 2020s.
Even multicultural societies need some shared values. The Liberals feel confident they are defending them.
When company bosses spent less time trying to be liked, they got listened to more often.
Young self-absorbed artists and old complacent arts organisations like the MSO don’t understand that great art is powerful because it transcends...
The prime minister must tell us whether he agrees with the ASIO boss and explain why ‘rhetorical’ support for Hamas shouldn’t automatically...
The PM is correct that “words matter”. So he should stop talking in code about the elevated terror threat.
The “great realignment” of US politics is not just about the reversal of the economic interests the parties speak for.
A commitment to multiculturalism doesn’t answer why “Muslim Votes Matter” sits so uneasily with Australia’s liberal democracy.
Finding the same combination of politics and principle on other policies might be the start of a strategy to win, not necessarily the next election...
When the reality of the energy transition dawns on the Australian public, the Coalition will be able to get away with leaving the Paris Agreement.
One explanation for the seeming decline in discussion about ESG is that it’s something that goes in and out of fashion according to economic...
The budget is our politics writ small: too lacking in confidence and optimism to seek out new growth.
Vice chancellors say what’s happening on campuses here is a million miles away from what’s happening in the US. That’s a statement of wishful...
Journalists won “glittering prizes” for the stories that were misinformation, but there’s no sign of anyone giving back their awards.
The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.
Any federal government that’s serious about reforming Commonwealth-state relations would stop rewarding Victoria’s disastrous financial...
The timing of the former PM’s departure with the byelection is coincidental but symbolic of potentially a new form of politics on the centre-right...
As the Coalition tries to work out a way forward on tax, the focus should be on how it won some of the big policy debates of the past.
After this, the suggestion that now is a good time to start a discussion about the development of a broad agenda for tax reform is naive.
The Liberals have won over the battlers before. Now they have a new cause in voters’ fears that their children will never be able to afford a home.
The Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard has triggered a US debate about the purpose of higher education that Australia seems determined not to have.
Penny Wong demonstrated the moral corruption of the UN and the opinion of many of its members, and Claudine Gay the intellectual corruption of higher...
Australia’s elites in business, the media, and our cultural institutions have for too long humoured the Greens. It’s time for that to stop.