Australia, frankly, is a failed federation with free speech increasingly endangered. Under our federation, designed as a ...

January 1, 2001 is the centenary of the proclamation of the Commonwealth of Australia—then a federation of six British colonies. Considerable efforts have been made in recent months by federal and ...

Australia’s federal system was designed for the nineteenth century. Today it produces duplication, dysfunction and state ...

Terry Moran has worked in the senior levels of the Victorian, Queensland and Commonwealth public services. Federation in 1901 is now the middle point between 2014 and the arrival of the First Fleet in ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected millions of individual lives, it has also undermined long-held economic ideas, as well as potentially having a long-term effect on regional and global ...

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