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John Hewson

John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former Liberal opposition leader.

President-elect Donald Trump has promised a 'full report' into hacking claims in his first 90 days.

We haven't learnt anything from rise of Trump and Brexit

I am disturbed at how the policy intelligentsia and the media elite are already closing ranks, as if this is just an aberration, we can, and will, handle it. Yet, they were caught short predicting that a Trump just "couldn't happen", and ever since have been attempting to rationalise their inadequacies.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten are both trying to come to grips with the fact that ...

Throw out the status quo and start again

As 2016 draws to a close, it is important to recognise the significance of the crisis of faith we are facing in our market-based capitalism and democracy.

Treasurer Scott Morrison assumed "we have a can opener" this week.

We're on the brink but the government is ignoring reality

This superficiality is genuinely alarming, ignoring the realities of the riskiness and unpredictability of the global economy, and of the structural challenges in our current and prospective domestic economy, perhaps now actually teetering on the brink of a recession.