Australia is Part of Asia
It is, of course, the season for holiday fun times making worthless definitions. Last week my wife and I were making a rare trip into...
Sen, social inclusion & Treasury’s wellbeing framework
Treasury's mission is broad -- to improve the wellbeing of the Australian people. And according to Peter Martin its wellbeing framework empowers it "to fight...
Why is there no liberal party?
At the Economist's Democracy in America blog, Erica Grieder suspects that "the biggest untapped constituency is people who are fiscally conservative and socially moderate or...
Missing Link Friday – It’s back!
Beyond soundbites: "There’s so much potential for political parties, who are more and more thought to be hollow, soulless things, to allow their MPs to...
Saving the young from superannuation
Of the many policy debates in Federal Parliament in 2011, one which gathered support from both major parties was the proposal to lift the superannuation...
What is social inclusion?
Judith Sloan wants the term banned, the editors of the Australian think it's bureaucratic gibberish and even the new minister for social inclusion seems unsure...