The national electricity mess is a national embarrassment
The NEM has become the National Electricity Mess, nee Market – more broadly, power mess – a national embarrassment.
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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.
We may never again have enough jobs
Underemployment is approaching double the unemployment rate.
Turnbull and Shorten aren't immune to using Trump's 'alternative words'
When US President Donald Trump says "America First", take it that he also means "America Only".
How to navigate through "Trump world"
John Hewson on why it's time to rise above Trump.
Mike Baird was no "cliche" politician
How many times have you heard one of our political leaders claim that they are in Parliament "to benefit our children and grandchildren"?
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.
Beware the 'new conservatives' motivated by ambition and ego
Labels have never been very useful - and now perhaps less than ever.
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.
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.
Praying for a political 'messiah' like Trump won't get us out of the mire
The two major parties need to stop playing short-term, opportunistic, point-scoring, political games.
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