Australians have a choice at the next election between a clean energy future founded in practical reality or one driven by dogma and wishful thinking. By Nick Cater.
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The current debate regarding the ability of faith-based schools to preference staff who share a common faith appears to ignore a crucial principle of international human rights law that aims for a principled balancing of conflicting rights. By David Fawcett.
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Chris Bowen’s argument that nuclear power is too expensive and too difficult to consider, is looking increasingly feeble as the financial and technical challenges of the current plan become apparent. By Nick Cater.
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Labor’s cash handouts cannot disguise the fact that its budget fails to address the policy concerns of young voters. By Freya Leach.
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Our national narrative once inspired generations of Australians and gave them hope for the future. But that has changed, with young people today increasingly pessimistic despite growing up in the most technologically advanced and prosperous society in human history. By Alexander Downer.
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The consensus from economists is that the Budget will add to inflationary pressures.
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The Government’s inflationary Budget has failed to deliver cost-of-living relief for Australians as promised, and is a missed opportunity at economic structural reform, says Peter Dutton in his Budget in Reply.
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The MRC crunches the numbers on how many taxpayers stand to benefit from the stage 3 tax reform.
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The main test for the upcoming budget is whether it will take pressure off inflation. By Angus Taylor.
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To spend heavily to incentivise one cohort of mothers to work while spending heavily to disincentivise another cohort to do so defies logic. By Amanda Stoker.
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It is our job as Liberals to convince people who just want to keep more of the money they earn, who just want a better life for themselves and their family, who want governments to help facilitate their ambition and not curb it, that we are the party for them. By Sussan Ley.
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The NDIS needs more than rebooting. It must be re-engineered from the bottom up. By Nick Cater.
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Prosperity and progress for our nation will come from policy grounded in tried and tested liberal values, argues Peter Dutton as he delivers the Sir John Downer Oration.
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A report this week by the Grattan Institute offers clues as to how a Labor government might reduce the structural deficit which it estimates will rise to $100 billion if left unchecked by the end of the decade. The report’s title, “Back in black?” would be heartening were it not for the question mark which suggests that Grattan thinks that budget deficits from here to eternity are an actual option. By Nick Cater.
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Australian teachers find it more difficult to control their classrooms compared with their counterparts overseas, presenting another challenge to an already-strained education system. By Susan Nguyen.
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Translating Liberal values for the modern era.
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Apple’s decision to pull out of their agreement to buy power from a proposed wind farm in the Upper Burdekin region marks a turning point in the energy debate. By Nick Cater.
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The Liberals must reframe its message to cut through in a digital world and meet young people where they are at. By Freya Leach.
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