January 7 The Bradley report is hardly a ringing call for transformation says Andrew Norton in The Australian   January 6 Government's compulsory internet censorship regime is a Big Brother blunder says Mark Newton in The Adelaide Advertiser   December 30 Defining greed is an indulgence of its own says Oliver Hartwich in The Sydney Morning Herald   December 26 The end of the world as we know it is not the end of capitalism says Oliver Hartwich in The Australian   December 22 There is more to quality child care than UNICEF’s arbitrary standards writes Jessica Brown in The Courier Mail   December 18 Welfare killed saving and self reliance writes Jeremy Sammut in The Australian   December 15 The first prescription is to open the closed pharmacies says David Gadiel in The Canberra Times   December 14 NT children are not sitting national literacy and numeracy tests write Helen Hughes and Mark Hughes in the Sunday Territorian   December 13 Australia is not the only country that needs to reform an out of control welfare state writes Peter Saunders in The Australian   December 11 Santa Rudd is coming to town says Oliver Hartwich in Government News   December 11 Income tax moves in the UK and US are setting off alarm bells says Robert Carling in the Australian Financial Review   December 10 Flinging wads of cash about won't work says Stephen Kirchner in The Age   December 8 How China bought its graduates’ loyalty by John Lee at the Guardian online   December 5 There’s no such thing as a free bus service says Oliver Hartwich in The Sydney Morning Herald   November 28 Fudging the figures will not reduce the life expectancy gap for indigenous Australians says Helen Hughes in The Australian   November 28 Australia can learn from Joel Klein’s schooling system in New York says Jennifer Buckignham in The Australian   November 27 Foreign investment flows are damned by political bias says Stephen Kirchner in The Australian Financial Review   November 27 Is the new National-led government up to the task of remaking New Zealand? Asks Luke Malpass in The Wall Street Journal Asia   November 26 Vulnerable children are at the mercy of the bureaucracy says Toby O'Brien in The Australian   November 24 Recession and Reform in the wind for health care writes Jeremy Sammut in The Canberra Times   November 19 Students in low performing schools have the most to gain from school reporting writes Jennifer Buckingham in The Sydney Morning Herald   November 19 Obama must look to the Pacific before the Atlantic says John Lee at Opinion Asia   November 15 Beijing’s stimulus may not help its struggling consumption donkey says John Lee at The International Business Times   November 19 Land Supply is at the heart of our home-front problems says Oliver Hartwich in The Age   November 18 Proposed parental leave policy is back-to-front argues Jessica Brown at ABC News Online   October Who's paying for babies? asks Jessica Brown in Government News   November 18 Tax reform should take priority over paid parental leave says Jessica Brown in The Australian   November 15 This is not the end of capitalism by Oliver Hartwich in The Sydney Morning Herald   November 13 Why China wants to send a man to the moon by John Lee in The International Herald Tribune   November 13 Land reforms fall short for China farmers says John Lee in The Hong Kong Standard   November 13 Should Australia moderate between the US and China? asks John Lee in The Canberra Times   November 12 Kate Ellis has switched the red-tape machine back on for  higher education policy says Andrew Norton in The Australian   November 12 Senate does away with the right to remain single writes Jessica Brown in Crikey   November 12 History shows that targeting asset bubbles caused the Great Depression writes Stephen Kirchner at The Australian   November 11 The ABC of child care policy failure by Gaurav Sodhi and Jeremy Sammut is online at Business Spectator   November 11 Parent contributions may be the answer to the state’s student transport issue writes Jennifer Buckingham in the Newcastle Herald   November 10 Car subsidies blows good money out the exhaust writes Stephen Kirchner in the Sydney Morning Herald   November 10 NSW needs more bang for the bucks it spends writes Robert Carling in the Australian Financial review   November 7 Early intervention is the key to helping WA’s troubled youth writes Toby O’Brien in the West Australian   November 6 The brightest are missing out in an education system preoccupied with equality writes Jennifer Buckingham in The Australian   November 3 McCain would be a closer friend of Indonesia than Obama saya John Lee in The Jakarta Post   October 31 Agnostics need to have faith in the private hospital sector writes Jeremy Sammut in Crikey   October 29 Discouraging adoption in favour of foster care is harming children writes Toby O'Brien at Crikey   October 29 Beware politicians claiming superior virtue writes Stephen Kirchner in The Australian   October 28 The nanny state is no substitute for parental responsibility writes Jeremy Sammut at Online Opinion   October 25 Land reforms in China could make it even worse for peasants says John Lee in The Straits Times   October 22 Is the government bailing out or crowding out asks Stephen Kirchner at Henry Thornton   October 19 The NT government admits policy failure on outstations writes Sara Hudson in the Sunday Territorian   October 15 Rudd’s political handout culture will be mugged by the economic reality writes Jeremy Sammut and Gaurav Sodhi in the Australian Financial Review   October 15 Fiscal stimulus plan has missed opportunities for long term reform says Stephen Kirchner in the The Wall Street Journal   October 11 Leadership can make all the difference in a CDEP organisation says Sara Hudson in the Sydney Morning Herald   October 8 Welfare stretcher at bottom of cliff writes Sara Hudson in The Australian   October 7 State government gravy train is on the wrong track writes Gaurav Sodhi in the Sydney Morning Herald   October 6 Supply and demand formula for universities is failing says Andrew Norton in The Age   October 4 The aged care industry is desperate for more of accommodation bonds writes Jeremy Sammut in the Australian Financial Review   September 30 The battle for paid maternity leave is raging writes Jessica Brown in The Herald Sun   September 30 Paid maternity leave will not fix problem parents writes Jessica Brown and Toby O’Brien in The Australian   September 30 $4billion government subsidy will not promote competition says Stephen Kirchner in The Age   September 25 Tainted milk is part of a bigger problem for Chinese civil society says John Lee in The Australian   September 23 Money for nothin’ and paid parental leave for free says Jessica Brown in Crikey   September 23 Short selling has been sold short says Stephen Kirchner in the Australian Financial Review   September 22 There’s nothing random about randomised trials writes Ross Farrelly in The Canberra Times   September 18 We need a fair compromise for paid maternity leave says Jessica Brown at ABC News Online   September 18 Welfare is killing Kiwis softly write Luke Malpass and Jeremy Sammut in The Dominion Post   September 17 Separatist schooling is now a proven failure in NT, write Helen and Mark Hughes in The Australian   September 14 Guest workers and disincentives for NT’s Indigenous unemployed writes Helen Hughes in the Sunday Territorian   September 11 The Pacific has two different faces, writes Gaurav Sodhi in The Fiji Times   September 8 Obesity scare campaigns are a growing problem for taxpayers writes Jeremy Sammut in The Canberra Times   September 8 An ‘AussieMac’ won’t help home buyers says Stephen Kirchner in the Australian Financial Review   September 8 The gap is worse for remote Indigenous people writes Helen Hughes in The Australian   August 27 Judge think tanks by policy outcomes, not partisan labels, says Jeremy Sammut in The Australian   August 23 Hayek showed us why top-down planning doesn’t work well writes Geoff Hogbin in The Weekend Australian   August 21 We must separate family services from child protection says Toby O’Brien in The Australian   August 21 Feminism is about choice writes Jessica Brown in the Sydney Morning Herald   August 21 Cool reception for a polarising policy in the Bipolar Pacific writes Helen Hughes and Gaurav Sodhi in The Canberra Times   August 21 The Pacific is a crime bomb and needs economic reform says Gaurav Sodhi in The Australian   August 21 Government should be stepping away from CDEP writes Sara Hudson in Government News   August 19 Australia should go for tax policy gold says Robert Carling in the Australian Financial Review   August 19 Doing away with pretend jobs will help Indigenous South Australians writes Sara Hudson in the Adelaide Advertiser   August 18 Are fruit picking jobs for local aborigines or guest workers from the Pacific? Asks Helen Hughes in The Courier Mail   August 16 The Bracks’ review shows the barren truth of protectionism writes Stephen Kirchner in Business Spectator   August 16 Some re-education from Blighty writes Peter Saunders in The Weekend Australian   August 13 The case for corporate tax reform by Sinclair Davidson at Online Opinion   August 14 Employment is the key to curbing indigenous mens’ violence says Sara Hudson in the Alice Springs News   August 15 Don’t increase the burden on Generations X and Y, leave the pension rate alone says Jeremy Sammut in The Australian   August 14 The PM has unwittingly illustrated Hayek’s views on the fallibility of politicians says Oliver Hartwich in The Australian   August 12 Reserve did not go far or fast enough, inflation is still on the cards writes Dr Stephen Kirchner in The Age   August 12 School reporting will be the first test of Labor’s ‘modern federalism’ says Jennifer Buckingham in The Canberra Times   August 7 Corporate tax needs attention now writes Sinclair Davidson in the Australian Financial Review   August 4 Defend the individual and so the West, writes Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the Sydney Morning Herald   July 26 It’s back to work in Brown’s Britain, says Peter Saunders in the Weekend Australian   July 26 The Child Care funding myth written by Jennifer Buckingham at Business Spectator   July 26 Governments are failing East Arnhem Land writes Helen Hughes and Mark Hughes in the Weekend Australian   July 24 Closing the ‘gender gap’ may undermine women says Jessica Brown in Crikey   July 24 Happy anniversary RAMSI says Gaurav Sodhi at ABC News Online   July 24 Cut costs to boost our fertility rates says Barry Maley in The Canberra Times   July 20 CDEP is no substitute for local government services writes Sara Hudson in The Sunday Territorian   July 23 Subsidies increase child care prices, not mothers participation in work says Jennifer Buckingham in The Australian   July 17 Spin won’t make “high care” aged care sector sustainable writes Jeremy Sammut at Online Opinion   July 21 Religion is a threat to authority, not liberty writes Robert Sirico in The Australian   July 17 Let people be free to choose independence from the state says John Humphreys in the Australian FInancial Review   June 2008 Reassessing China’s future beyond the Beijing Olympics by John Lee in AIIA Policy Commentary   July 16 EU shows disdain for voters writes Peter Saunders in The Australian   July 9 CDEP payments are a disincentive to work, argues Sara Hudson in The Australian   June 26 In an ageing Australia, the creakiest knees, not the squeakiest wheels, will get the grease says Jeremy Sammut in The Canberra Times   June 25 Will Super Clinics increase the pressure on public hospitals? Asks Jeremy Sammut at ABC Online   June 20 Kevin Rudd’s ‘security community’ will annoy Asia says John Lee in the National Business Review   June 19 Teachers need help with job appointments says Jennifer Buckingham in The Newcastle Herald   June 19 There’s no such thing as a free parking space writes Christian Seibert in The Australian   June 18 The rise of China’s new army writes John Lee in China Brief   June 18 Cut wages and create jobs writes Peter Saunders in The Geelong Advertiser   June 18 Rudd is out of whack with Asia writes John Lee in The Straits Times   June 12 Working for Welfare by Peter Saunders at ABC News Online   June 12 Rudd’s blunder to dismantle Work for the Dole says Peter Saunders in The Australian   June 11 Uni’s protectionist ploy a blast from the past writes Andrew Norton in The Australian, Higher Education   June 9 China’s universities and students are now complicit with the CCP writes John Lee in Campus Review   May 31 Democracy only for the few in China writes John Lee in Business Spectator   June 1 The Chinese Communist Party is cleverly buying off the middle classes says John Lee at The Guardian Online   May 31 China’s ‘me generation’ prefer Dolce & Gabbana to democracy writes John Lee in the Weekend Australian   May 30 China’s donkey consumption is dragging its hooves writes John Lee in The Age   May 29 Pricey petrol does a world of good says Gaurav Sodhi in the Sydney Morning Herald   May 29 Teachers: Scale their pay to meet demand writes Jennifer Buckingham in The Australian   May 28 No brides for China’s 30 million bachelors writes John Lee in The Courier Mail   May 28 Democracy’s slowboat to China getting slower says John Lee in The Canberra Times   May 21 Not all mums need handouts says Jessica Brown in The Australian   May 20 The budget is not what it seems writes Robert Carling in The Age   May 15 Means testing doesn’t solve the problems with welfare policy writes Peter Saunders in the Australian Financial Review   May 15 A boring budget isn’t always bad when it comes to other people’s money writes Jennifer Buckingham in Crikey   May 15 Family tax benefits are still a mass of contradictions says Jessica Brown in Crikey   May 15 Swan says budget surplus is not his, so give it back to the taxpayer writes Peter Saunders in Crikey   May 08 The brave new conformity Peter Saunders in Quadrant magazine   9 May Preventive health is a drain on taxpayers writes Jeremy Sammut in the Newcastle Herald   9 May Proof of the pudding: health campaigns don't work says Jeremy Sammut at ABC News Online   8 May Rudd’s preventive health plan is a policy looking for an evidence-base says Jeremy Sammut in The Canberra Times   8 May Prevention is better than cure, but only if it works writes Jeremy Sammut in The Australian   7 May KiwiSaver – a solution in search of a problem, writes Phil Rennie in The Dominion Post   7 May KiwiSaver is New Zealand’s Saving (Dis)grace says Phil Rennie in the Wall Street Journal Asia   6 May The three 'R's of Northern Territory Indigenous Education: Responsibility, reform and 'rithmetic writes Helen Hughes in The Australian   1 May Forget Alchohol – the binge here is on taxing drinkers says Jeremy Sammut in the Daily Telegraph   20 Apr RAMSI’s job is only half complete writes Gaurav Sodhi at ABC News Online   30 Apr Health Minister gives a mixed message on binge drinking writes Jeremy Sammut in The Courier Mail   23 Apr The 2020 Summit's community corps idea looks better on paper than it would in practice, says Andrew Norton in The Australian ‘Higher Education’   23 Apr Australia's overall productivity has risen, but so has the tax burden, writes Robert Carling in The Age   22 Apr A fat tax on the fat and thin is unfair says Jeremy Sammut in The Australian   18 Apr Rudd’s baby farms are not going to be great for kids say Jessica Brown and Peter Saunders in The Australian   15 Apr Policy reform to close the gap between black and white writes Helen Hughes in the Australian Financial Review   14 Apr Who should pay for maternity leave – employers, unions or taxpayers? asks Jessica Brown in The Age   11 Apr Big ideas needed, not big government says Phil Rennie in the National Business Review   10 Apr Nicholas Gruen on