The Policy Post

  Australia Alone 1: The future without America. We are moving into a multipolar world  in which no single centre of power can dominate. For Australia, the time has come for independence.

  Australia alone 2: Where’s the enemy? The US wants Australia to help constrain China and preserve America’s supremacy. But what’s in it for us?

  Australia alone 3: In the national interest? As a sovereign nation, Australia should follow its national interest. But how do we do that? And what is it anyway?

  A party without a purpose. In May, federal Labor surged to power with its best result since the second world war. Eleven weeks later, Tasmanian Labor got its worst result since 1903. Why?

  One state has the worst hospital system – and the most expensive. Inefficient, neglected hospitals cost lives and waste dollars. You don’t always get what you pay for.