Kenneth Haynes' enquiry into the finance industry has exposed troubling ethical behaviour among those we expected should know better. But...

The high turnout and overwhelmingly positive result of Australia’s voluntary postal plebiscite on same sex marriage enabled our...

I have developed a seminar to explain libertarian philosophy to a lay audience. The course draws on the work of Locke, Smith, Mises, Hayek, Nozick, Rothbard, et al. and themes from my book The Fragility of Freedom. Our wonderful, free and prosperous society is being threatened by ideologies, from within and without, that compromise the reasons for its success. If we are to succeed in our battle with competing ideologies, then we need to acquire an appreciation of the legac

I think we should give credit to GetUp! for having the courage to withdraw its support from the petition seeking the deregistration of Dr Pansy Lai for her views on same sex marriage. The issue at stake here is tolerance in a pluralist society. I am confident that our society will be able tolerate loving relationships between homosexuals being called marriage. At the same time, we must respect the rights of those who hold a traditional view of marriage. It would be intoler

Imagine you are the Vice Chancellor of an Australian University, an extremely demanding job. You are approached by the Australian Human...

We hear, ad nauseam, of the need to prevent Muslim youth in Western societies from being radicalised. Too little effort is made to...

An open letter to Dr Michael Spence, Vice Chancellor, Sydney University. Yesterday’s report that students at your University have been...

Dear Gillian I am sorry it has taken me a few days to respond to your request. Last week was a bit busy, what with the book launch and my...

Last Tuesday I had the honour to address the Adam Smith Club on the topic Taking Responsibility for Ourselves and our Children: A Defense of Bill Leak's Message and his Right to say it. My address concluded as follows: I would now like to return to the point where we started – the Royal Commission into juvenile detention in the Northern Territory. To be effective, any solution must consider why so many indigenous teenagers are in the prison system and how to reduce the num

Gillian Triggs has made an abject apology to Kyran Findlater, one of the seven QUT students subjected to a racial vilification case brought against him under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act over a Facebook post in May 2013. Previously, on the 7:30 Report, 2016 Professor Triggs had explained to Leigh Sales that the Human Rights Commission had spent 14 months trying to conciliate between Miss Prior and the seven students. It turns out that this was not true. M