Thoughts on Freedom

As the headline says, “61% Say Cutting Spending Will Create More Jobs Than Obama’s New $50 Billion Program”. These are Americans who say this in a poll done in the US last week. Much is in the question asked, of course. But it is a sign that the message is getting through. And the question [...]

I went along yesterday to see Alan Moran in the Lion’s Den. Well, not really a lion’s den; more like an opportunity to form a circular firing squad with everyone shooting at the only person in the room trying to tell them that they are asking for $500+ electricity bills with all other prices scaled [...]

Andrew Carr asks if I can compare the skills mismatch of international and local students. To re-cap, a study of former overseas student migrants in 2006 found that: 18 months after their arrival found the skills match for former overseas students at the following levels: accounting 35%, business/commerce 5%, education 31%, engineering 23%, IT 35%, [...]

Australia’s universities are in a bit of a panic. With international student applications down, and much bigger drops in the ‘feeder’ colleges, the next few years are looking particularly grim. While issues such as the high dollar, student safety and more intense competition for even-more broke universities in the UK and US are affecting th […]

The ABS released their labour mobility survey yesterday, and as I predicted two years ago Labor’s legislated job security provisions, which took effect about five months into the survey, did not stop retrenchments going up. 3.7% of workers who were employed in the year to February 2010 were retrenched, compared to 1.8% under WorkChoices in [...]

Despite calls for consensus politics, for the next three years Australians should expect a Liberal-led opposition to...

Labor lost the war. But it won the reconstruction handily. Nobody thought the Gillard team could come together as it did...

We're usually a distrustful lot. When it was revealed Andrew Wilkie had asked for federal funds to redevelop the Royal...