NDIS: State collaboration is key
As a result of the Productivity Commission findings in August 2011 that Australia’s disability system is “underfunded, unfair, fragmented and inefficient”, the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has been created.
Letter from Cyprus
There’s a simple economic equation which goes to the heart of economics: savings equals investment.
Letter from the North
It’s a strange thing about Australians: they don’t have a strong sense of the sheer size of their country.
Spending a dollar to make a dollar
The Australian Open Tennis Championship, Avalon International Air show, Grand Prix, Red Bull Air Race – all are magnificent sporting spectacles brought to Victoria for us as residents of the…
The Little Blue Book
While nothing is certain, it would take a massive change in fortune, polling and betting market pricing for there to be any thing other than a Coalition victory at the…
Letter from Mali
I met a French ambassador recently. “Congratulations”, I gushed. “You have shown great courage and leadership in Mali.” He graciously thanked me and then tried to persuade me Australia should…
On the Abolition of All Political Parties
Before she died at the age of only 34 in 1943, French philosopher Simone Weil left behind an intense body of work around Christian philosophy, mysticism and political activism. One…
Naming the price to reduce transport congestion
Without doubt one of the best things about working in Melbourne in January is the significant decrease in congestion on the roads and crowding on trains and trams as you…
Letter from Europe
This summer my reading included a stunning new history of the causes of the First World War called The Sleepwalkers, written by the Cambridge based historian Christopher Clark.
Letter from Tokyo
I often bore people with my list of the ten cities you have to see before you die.
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