How does the political right in Australia need to change? Our media tend to over fixate on Donald Trump but in some ways, he is a distraction. What is missing is a proper understanding of the...
After decades of mass immigration, the foreign-born vote can make or break an election. And with no signs of borders being shut any time soon, immigration – for both sides – is set to play a...
Some of my clever political friends have recently started to refer to me, wryly, as Australia's secret and powerful Disraeli Lobby. This is because of my insistence – okay, mild obsession – that...
When I was born, Australia had a population of roughly 18 million people. When I left school 16 years later, it had grown to a population of 22 million people. Next year, according to ABS data,...
I mentioned in a previous column how I live in probably the greenest part of Australia – surrounded by political representatives of the Greens on all sides at local, state, and federal level. The...
There have been many interesting reactions to the Australian Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss on Saturday. But surely one of the most bizarre has been how leading progressive Liberals have...
Among the main centre-right parties of the key countries in the Anglosphere, the Liberal Party of Australia stands out as an anomaly – it is the only one that uses “liberal” in its party name. ...
Labor brought in 1.4 million migrants, created a once-in-a-generation housing crisis, oversaw a rise in homelessness, continued stagnation in real wages, a divisive Voice campaign, a total...
Home ownership is declining across the West. In America, the rate continues to fall, down 3.5 percentage points since its peak. Australia is down 3 points, Great Britain is down nearly 7...