With a dramatically rising population and falling infrastructure spending, the pressure for action is growing. Australia, we have a problem. The faster our population grows, the worse our governments are performing in choosing and building the infrastructure we need to cope with that growth. Three statistics issued in recent days reveal the scale of the...

Once the natural party of government, the Liberal Party has been performing badly across Australia for thirty years or more. Mike Baird has shown the party a way out Mike Baird’s victory in Saturday’s NSW election is far more unusual than it looks. And if Baird as premier continues as he has begun, he could...

Looked at over time and ranked against other OECD countries, public funding of Australian universities is at a record-breaking low At a conference of university leaders in early 2013, Tony Abbott promised “relative policy stability” in higher education if he became prime minister. A year later, Universities Australia began its first Abbott-era budget submission by...

The Abbott government’s tough stance on border protection doesn’t only apply to asylum seekers arriving by boat

Elections in Victoria and Queensland have caught the pollsters wrong-footed. Are unexpected preference flows making Australian elections harder to predict? Between now and the federal election, due late next year, dozens of polls will be thrust on us. For the next month, a deluge of them will come from New South Wales. But we’ve got...