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John Roskam

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No safe spaces for Jewish students at universities

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...

02.05.2024 30

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Higgins ‘cover-up’ no Watergate. It was another ‘Russsiagate’

Journalists won “glittering prizes” for the stories that were misinformation, but there’s no sign of anyone giving back their awards.

18.04.2024 20

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A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge

The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.

04.04.2024 20

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Loser Victoria shouldn’t be a GST winner

Any federal government that’s serious about reforming Commonwealth-state relations would stop rewarding Victoria’s disastrous financial...

14.03.2024 20

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Dunkley is the Liberal Party’s chance to advance on Morrison

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...

29.02.2024 10

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Dutton needs his own version of Fightback

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.

15.02.2024 4

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Tax cuts reveal Albanese is brazen and cynical

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.

01.02.2024 8

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Enter the Liberal Party, working-class heroes

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.

18.01.2024 4

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Existential panic at the ivory tower

The Claudine Gay fiasco at Harvard has triggered a US debate about the purpose of higher education that Australia seems determined not to have.

04.01.2024 8

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Why Penny Wong and academic elites are wrong on Gaza

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...

14.12.2023 5

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Libs and Labor should put the Greens last over antisemitism

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.

07.12.2023 8

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Cost-of-living crisis is a social crisis too

An economically pessimistic society finds it a lot harder to repair and renew itself in other ways.

16.11.2023 10

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The right is out of love with capitalism

Prosperity is taken for granted and freedom is an optional extra. Conservatives are looking for a new sales pitch, and it’s not Adam Smith.

02.11.2023 4

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Voice loss heralds Labor’s third great split

Two earlier schisms divided the parliamentary party. This time it’s Labor MPs who have split from the people who vote for them.

19.10.2023 3

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Bran Black has the hardest job in Australia

The new boss of the lobby group for big business is described as “Mr Nice Guy”, but that will do nothing to push back against the government’s...

05.10.2023 7

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Such is politics: Josh Frydenberg departs as Jacinta Price arrives

After having their cosy consensus on the Voice disturbed, the political class and big business are starting to worry about what other issues the...

25.09.2023 5

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Game’s up for Qantas’ Canberra crony capitalism

When an airline’s most important stakeholders are politicians, not its passengers, there’s a problem.

07.09.2023 3

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