Opinion & Commentary
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Only a super-style savings system now will help Medicare survive
THE intergenerational reports have told us repeatedly that escalating government spending on health is unsustainable in an ageing Australia. But despite the warnings about the future of the health system,... Read More
Child protection: generation lost by not being 'stolen'
It is incredibly simplistic and misleading to blame the serious problems many troubled children experience on the decision to take them into care. Read More
A few home truths on people and houses
Population growth: starting acting, not discussing Read More
Change attitude rather than limit population
Population growth: starting acting, not discussing. Australia should embrace its population growth . Read More
Skilled arrivals work in Australia's favour
We are the richer for being more selective with our immigration policy in Australia Read More
Degrees of difference
Many people have taken umbrage at this arguing that having a separate form for some remote communities is an example of 'positive discrimination'. Few people seem to understand the broader implications... Read More
Think local and give country towns the freedom to prosper or perish
FOR politicians, and especially for town planners, letting people decide where and how they want to live has never been an acceptable idea. Administrative elites have always been convinced they know better... Read More
Population debate: we pretend growth is not inevitable
The longer we pretend we can stop population growth, or protest that we don’t want growth to happen, the more difficult the job will become. Read More
Water: Making the glass half full
It is possible to augment the water supply of our cities without a drastic overhaul. Ever-improving technologies can not only help us save billions of litres each year but supply billions of litres without... Read More
Let's hold the line on immigration
Rebuilding the flood affected parts of Queensland will be an enormous task with big labour market implications. But should great decisions for the nation’s future population be made on the fly? Or do... Read More
Population bomb still a fizzer 40 years on
Anti-population growth campaigners like Paul Ehrlich claim to be fighting for the environment and sustainability. In effect, they are actually promoting a new, green version of misanthropy. It is time... Read More
A small Australia limits our creativity
To advocate a small Australia is to deny the opportunities for economic, scientific and cultural advance that can flow from great concentrations of people and their inexhaustible reserves of creative potential,... Read More