The most incredible thing about result from Saturday’s poll is not that it ended up so close, but that so many people have been surprised by...
Stability
It is remarkable that the news media in this country has unanimously declared that Britains referendum outcome is good for the Coalition bec...
Coaltion to spend $1 billion on the Great Barrier Reef
The Coalition Government has announced it would commit $1 billion to improving the health of the Great Barrier Reef if reelected. On the su...
Terrorism in black and white
Last year a 15 year old male shot dead a New South Wales police civilian employee. The news media widely reported it as an act of terror, a...
Budget Balances
The 2014 budget predicted a deficit of $29.8bn for the 2014-15 financial year. The 2015 budget reveals the deficit will actually be $41.1...
Australian Government budget: headline numbers
On the day after the budget, we bring you the first of a series of posts. This focuses on the broadest set of numbers that the budget revea...
Capital Punishment
This morning Australia woke to the news that two of its citizens, Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukamaran had been executed by firing squad in Indo...
Federal Budget Woes
With the leadership speculation swirling around in Canberra, the treasurer's performance has been called into question along with his pr...
Housing Finance: Owner Occupiers vs Investors
The latest housing finance figures show that loans for the purpose of investing in the residential housing market continued to skyrocket to...
Record Low Interest Rates
When he was still the prime minister, John Howard famously claimed that interest rates would always be lower under a Coalition government. ...
Adoption Crusaders
There has been a lot of media attention on adoption policy lately, partly on the back of the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s an...
Queensland Labor Leadership
Queensland has just seen its second remarkable election in three years, with a tiny Labor opposition picking up enough seats to turn the rul...
Fortress Australia
Operation Sovereign Borders is hardly the first act of Australia throwing up the barricades for fear of some kind of invasion. Probably the...
The Government's Ballooning Deficit
The Charter of Budget Honesty Act 1998 requires the federal Treasurer to publicly release and table a mid-year economic and fiscal outlook ...
White Ribbon Day: Australia's Violent Undercurrent
Today is White Ribbon Day . It is a day when men are asked to stand up to violence against women. This is a great thing, focusing the nati...
Should Christians Support School Chaplaincy?
A couple of weeks ago, Tony Abbott did his best to explain the purpose of military action in Iraq and Syria. In doing so, he argued the cas...
Queensland Government's mixed messages on cost of living
The Queensland Government is very concerned about the cost of living. That is why the government has proposed investing proceeds from the a...
Gender indicators: education and employment
The Bureau released some statistics a few weeks ago that received very little attention from mainstream news outlets. For some time, women ...
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