John Hewson is a professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU, and a former Liberal opposition leader.
It was hoped that the Finkel review of the national electricity market would provide the basis to negotiate an end to the "climate wars". Unfortunately it seems to have just raised these wars to an even higher level of concern and absurdity.
We ducked a recession again, but there is little doubt our economy is recessed.
Both have failed to live up to expectations, being predominantly self-absorbed in opportunistic political point-scoring, writes John Hewson.
There is an urgent need to set up an independent authority to oversee climate policy.
It's too easy for Australia to get sucked along with the US, to end up where we would not want to be.
It is imperative that the government shows real leadership in the coming budget. To this point, there have been few areas of policy that have seen more "drift".
Effective management of expectations is fundamental to political success.
The government's emperor, Jobs and Growth, has few clothes.
One of my colleagues in the Crawford School at ANU has a sign on his door: Keep Calm – and An Economist has The Answer.
In today's very uncertain and unpredictable world of politics, it is difficult to be very sure about much. Yet, as sure as I can be, the Turnbull government will not win the next election by moving further and further to the "right".
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