Citizens cannot share the benefits of a 21st century society if they do not participate in it economically and culturally.

The Lehrmann-Higgins case has highlighted how ineffective the law is in sexual assault cases. We need to explore alternative solutions.

Coercive lockdowns are failing. What if government shared its information and made recommendations not regulations?

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

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

In July 2016, following the expose on Four Corners, Prime Minister Turnbull announced a Royal Commission into juvenile detention in the...

It is important to realise and accept that opposing and irreconcilable religious, philosophical, and moral views can be reasonably held.

The reform of the welfare state is going to require courage, intellectual honesty and a willingness to admit that cherished beliefs were wrong. Politically, many of my friends are a little left of centre. I observe them having great difficulty coming to grips with the moral failures of the welfare state and its financial unsustainability. This is quite understandable. Their beliefs about social fairness are deeply held but seldom subjected to rational debate. The following q

Noel Pearson Noel Pearson is admired as one of Australia’s great political leaders and thinkers. Last week, he released a 165-page document Empowered Communities: Empowered Peoples recommending radical changes to government policies for Indigenous Australians. Instead of policies being determined by bureaucrats in our capital cities and delivered by a largely non-indigenous support industry, the report calls for the decision making and its execution to be devolved to empow

I wonder why the focus of our solutions for social problems seems to be to ask strangers to deal with them and government to fund it. The...