The system is failing to keep the small cohort of the most acutely unwell in treatment for their own safety, and everyone else’s.
Elected members imagine themselves trapped between an economy needing immigrants and a public wanting fewer. It’s time they questioned their assumptions.
Much of the measured “progress” in the Closing the Gap report is a change in who is counted, not actual outcomes. Dig into the data, and any modest good news evaporates.
A hollowed out consensus-driven profession is unserious about real economic problems.
Had Xi Jinping held Thursday’s rally, nobody would hesitate over what to call it: a political rally for a foreign power, held on Australian soil, blessed by our elected leaders.
Elites are orchestrating a cultural decline. They don’t identify with the country they administer and bear none of the costs of their cultural obsessions.
The treasurer’s closed-door approach to CGT reform has delivered a complex, flawed budget package that penalises investors and desperately needs fixing.
Young Australians are being asked to accept higher taxes on labour and investments they can access, while older groups and property wealth receive special treatment.
Ceremonies whose sole purpose once was to commemorate those who served, suffered and died are increasingly being made to carry every contemporary social issue at once.
The young did what they were told but still face stagnant wages, unaffordable housing and a diminishing sense of achieving normal milestones like family formation.
When one asset class systematically generates passive, location-driven profits, taxing it more heavily than productive capital is economically defensible.
The Liberals should support a move towards a genuinely skilled migration program that relies on labour-market signals.
If we want fewer bollards and fewer memorials, we must follow the lead of European nations and stop treating Australia’s civic culture as something negotiable or impolite to assert.
The real problem is the misallocation of housing created and reinforced by policies that entrench intergenerational wealth divides.
Failing to name or measure Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder does not protect children. It condemns more children to a life limited before birth.
