The University Trap
As the university semester begins and students head back to classes for another year, it is worth examining the troubling history and reality of...
Finding common cause with the Greens
Because politics isn’t meant to be easy
In Australia, libertarian candidates are rarely ranked highly on voters’ ballots.
Libertarian candidates get first preferences from the small...
The Missing Ingredient – Assimilation
When Al Grassby was Immigration Minister in the Whitlam government in the early 1970s, he announced that multiculturalism was to be Australia’s future policy....
25 Provocative Predictions For 2024
With which do you agree or disagree?
GOVERNMENT OVERREACH
Habeas corpus will not be restored in Australia.
The Australian Federal Budget will be in deficit and expenditure...
E-Scooters: A Two Wheeled Burden?
Since approximately 2016 there has been a rapid increase in personal and for-hire electric scooters (e-scooters) in cities around the world. Over 600 cities...
Part II:Programmable Money
Two years ago the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, Sir John Cunliffe, spoke the most sinister sentence I’d heard in a long...
Forum Shopping for Native Title rights
The Rolling Stones were wrong: you can always get what you want if you are patient and the taxpayer foots the bill. And if...
China’s Priority Next: Faith or Freedom?
In my previous article "China 2024 and Beyond", I argued that China, amid its troubles, is in desperate need of a visionary leader akin...
Brave New World Wide Web
The reverse correlation between the internet’s growing accessibility and its diminishing freedom can only be arrested by changes in user habits
Much has been made...
The New UAE Corporate Tax
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is famous for, among other things, zero tax. That ended this year. The UAE now has a 9% tax...