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Does Australia really need one million international student enrolments? Data from the Department of Education has revealed just how broken Australia’s immigration system truly is – and it’s...
The Australian centre-right does not really understand the pro-worker national conservatism which has been so electorally successful in the United States and other Western democracies, or so I...
The vote for the centre-right in general in Australia is at record lows. But why exactly is this? Both the more progressive and conservative wings of the Liberal Party have worked themselves in...
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...
What is going on with the political right globally? Across the Western world legacy parties are seemingly on their way out. In the UK, the Conservative Party looks set to be replaced by Nigel...