When World's Collide: ASIO Also Needs a Reality Check
(May 2017)
The
Reconciliation Council's Inadequate 'Reform' Proposal (May 2017)
Why Doesn't
the Referendum Council Consult the Electorate? (May 2017)
Assessing a
Possible National Security Risk Without Considering National Security?
(May 2017)
Possible Personal
Benefits and the Geopolitical Consequences of the Trump Administration's
'Deal-making' Also Need Investigation (May 2017)
Women Are Not
The Only Muslims Who Would Benefit From Liberation (May 2017)
Reform Proposals
Need Deeper Analysis (May 2017)
What Happens to the Levy If
Banks' 'Super Profits' Disappear? (May 2017)
History
Repeats Itself? (May 2017)
Should Anyone Bother
Going? (May 2017)
The Most Disturbing Signs
Beyond the Housing Boom Will Have Their Source in China (May 2007)
This is Hardly the
Time to Be Timid (May 2017)
Donald Trump and the
US's Allies Need to Think About North Korea (May 2017)
Would an 'Infrastructure Boom' Be a Good Thing for Australia? (April
2017)
Increasing The
Return on State Funded University Research (April 2017)
Christianity
is the Necessary Foundation for Applying Rational Thought in Practice
(April 2017)
Avoiding a Market 'Solution'
To Australia's Overinvestment in Real Estate (April 2017)
Cultural Intelligence
is Needed to Frame Successful Strategy (April 2017)
If There is Too Much Risky
Debt, Why Not Do Something About It? (April 2017)
Will Donald Trump
Unofficially Accept China as the 'Middle Kingdom'? (April 2017)
“Is Truth Dead?” (April
2019)
Perpetuating
The Disadvantages that Australians with Indigenous Ancestry Have Endured?
(April 2017)
We Have to Understand China's
'New World' Ambitions (March 2017)
The Inadequacies of
Mr Abbott's Progressive Proposals (March 2017)
Reducing Immigration
Would Not Just Solve the Housing Affordability Problem (March 2017)
Bring Infrastructure into the 21st Century: Some Suggestions (March
2017)
Housing
Affordability is not the Only Problem due of 'Financialization' (March
2017)
Exposing the
Source of Islamist Radicalization (March 2017)
Energy Crisis: The
Real Problem is Machinery of Government Changes That Made Long Term
Planning Impossible (March 2017)
Building a Case for
Democracy (March 2017)
The Need to
Study More than the 'Origins' of Western Civilization (March 2017)
Will China's Desire to
Ignore Its Dangerously High National Debt Make Australia Shine? (March
2017)
Which Muslim
Leaders are Our Best Allies? (March 2017)
How Credible are Chinese
Investment Proposals? Do the Sums!! (March 2017)
China's Government is
Not 'Communist' Any More than Its Companies are 'Private' (March 2017)
China as the
Failing Hegemon: The Need for Global Cultural Understanding (March
2017)
Acceptance of
Hitting Women is Only a Small Part of Muslims' Problems (February
2017)
Creating Chaos
in Indigenous Affairs? (February 2017)
Declining
Enthusiasm For China's System is Hardly Surprising (February 2017)
Royal Commission Can't
Make Much Difference to Child Sexual Abuse (February 2017)
Are Muslims'
Problems the Result of Some Muslims' Cultures Rather Than of Their
Religion? (February 2017)
Economists Need to Look at China's Financial Predicament (February
2017)
Problems the Disaffected
Face in Identifying Realistic Policies (February 2017)
Strengthening
Innovation in Australia By Challenging Interests Who Resist Change
(February 2017)
Realism in Asian Literacy is
Long Overdue (February 2017)
You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
(February 2017)
The Risks from China and
'Trumponics' Both Matter (February 2017)
Keeping
Americans and Everyone Else Safe from Islamist Violence (February
2017)
Malcolm Turnbull Needs
to Get with the New Reality: But What Will That Reality Be? (January
2017)
Promoting Liberal and
Democratic Western Values: A Suggestion (January 2017)
Can China
Create an Open, Transparent and Safe Financial System? And What will
Happen if it Can't (January 2017)
Take a Closer Look at
China (January 2017)
Can President Trump
Contain China's Hierarchical Authoritarianism? (January 2017)
China's Desperate Need
for More Foreign Investment (to Avoid a Hard Landing) (January 2017)
Putting China-US
Tensions in Context (January 2017)
The
Problem with Old Certainties (January 2017)
Donald Trump is Not
Alone in Facing Dilemmas (January 2017)
Laying the Groundwork
for a One-Term Presidency (January 2017)
Reducing Congestion
by Accelerating the Growth of Australia's Second-tier Cities (January
2017)
Capitalism is Not
Where Reform is Most Needed (January 2017)
Despair About
Queensland Governments (January 2017)
Will China Solve
Australia's Housing Affordability Problem? (January 2017)
GDP is a
Critically Important 'Sustainable Development Goal' (January 2017)
Politically-driven Infighting Continues in QRail: The Unasked Question is
'How Should It Be Resolved?' (January 2017)
Alternative
Geo-political Assumptions: Did Russia Influence US Voters to Help China? (January 2017)
Big Four
Bank Chairmen Need to Get on with Federal Budget Repair (January 2016)
Implications of Asset Test Changes to Pensions (January 2017)
It is the
Economy, and It Needs More Than the PM's Attention (January 2016)
The Western
Path to Progress (December 2016)
Globalization has Been
Under Siege for Years (December 2016)
Where to
Start Changing Philosophy (December 2016)
An Increasingly
Unhappy Australia Didn't Start with Rudd in 2007 (December 2016)
Another View
of Muslim 'Grievances' (December 2016)
China's Impending
Crisis Needs to be Considered (December 2016)
Unfortunately
Terrorism CAN be Viewed as an 'Act of Faith' (December 2016)
A Queensland View
of 'The Plight of Australia' (December 2016)
Appalling Queensland Governments (December 2016)
Why Penny Wong is
Right About Reviewing Australia's Foreign Policies (December 2016)
Managing a Complex
World (December 2016)
Will Picking Winners
and Politicisation of Industrial Development 'Make America Great Again'?
(December 2016)
Religion and
The State: Reducing Western and Islamic Problems (December 2016)
Why Might Russia
Prefer Donald Trump? (December 2016)
Adapting to Changing
Geo-Political, Civilizational and Economic Relationships (December
2016)
A Different Financial
Crisis in Asia? (December 2016)
When Will Reality Trump
Markets? (December 2016)
How Does Treasury Know How
Much Property Investment is Foreign? (December 2016)
Scientific Debate on Climate Change
(December 2016)
The Need to Understand China's
Lack of Principles (November 2016)
Problems with a
'Post-truth' World (November 2016)
Schoolyard Bullying
is Not Children's Biggest Safety Problem (November 2016)
Will Donald Trump's
Economic Agenda Make America and the World Great? (November 2016)
Should Learning
Chinese Be Top Priority in Australian Schools? (November 2016)
Is Noel
Pearson’s Attack on ‘Racist ABC’ Unjustified? (November 2016)
Complexities in Estimating the Cost of Tax Breaks for Seniors
(November 2016)
Risks Facing Australia's Banks (November 2016)
The Triumph of
Elitism? (November 2016)
Populism As a
Backlash Against Incomprehensible Complexity (November 2016)
Progressives Face a
Complex Challenge (November 2016)
Why Not End Queensland's History of Public
Sector 'Disasters'? (November 2016)
Does Donald Trump
Really Intend to Concede World Leadership to China? (November 2016)
Global Implications of
Corruption in China (November 2016)
Climate Science is Not
Set in Concrete (November 2016)
Religion
Matters (November 2016)
Christian
Persecution in China (November 2016)
What Would a Real
National Abuse Compensation Scheme Cost? (November 2016)
Will China Again
Become the 'middle / coordinating / organizing Kingdom'? (November 2016)
What is Racism
- and is Bill Leak a 'Controversialist' or a 'Realist'? (November
2016)
An Opportunity
to Improve Religious Education (November 2016)
Transparency is Incompatible
with China's Development Goals (October 2016)
Cultural
Factors and the Overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in Prison
(October 2016)
Can China Avert an
Australian Housing Crash? (October 2016)
Making Democracy
Work Again (October 2016)
Don't Look for Scapegoats in QRail
(October 2016)
Complexities
in Relation to 'Hate Propaganda' (October 2016)
Keep Calm and Rethink China
(October 2016)
Little Chance for
First Home Buyers as Apartment Prices Fall (October 2016)
What Might the
'Fifth Estate' Best Do? (October 2016)
Don't Ignore the
Geo-Political Implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (October 2016)
Enabling China's Regime to Gain
Increasing Control of Australian Food
Producers and Manufacturers ? (October 2016)
More on Rethinking the Government's Northern Development Plan
(October 2016)
Don't Just Blame the
'Haters' (October 2016)
Why Does the World
Have a Debt Crisis and What Could be Done to Fix It? (October 2016)
Housing Risk
(October 2016)
Australia Must View
Chinese Investment and Other Activities Through a Geo-political Lens
(October 2016)
Science: The Gap
Between Experiment and Prediction (October 2016)
Investigating the
Implications of Same-Sex Marriage (October 2016)
Will Pauline Hanson's One
Nation Again Force the Political Mainstream to Think?
(October 2016)
Toeing the Party Line?
(October 2016)
Is Japan for Real? (October
2016)
China's Challenge to
Australia's Values and System of Government (September 2016)
Playing Political Games When Major Reforms are Needed (September 2016)
Understanding China Matters
(September 2016)
If You Are Right
Australia is in Trouble (September 2016)
Don't Blame the Messenger
(September 2016)
Is Political
Correctness Even More Out of Control? (September 2016)
A Smarter
Approach to Reinvesting? (September 2016)
Another Path
to One Nation (September 2016)
Don't Accuse China of Maoism or
Capitalism: Neo-Confucianism is the Go (September 2016)
Australians
Should Unite Against the Repression of Muslims (September 2016)
What is Soft Power?
(September 2016)
Deeper Engagement with Japan
Requires Analysis Equally from National Security and Economic Viewpoints
(September 2016)
Are We Prepared for the End
of China's 'Never-ending' Boom? (September 2016)
Debating the
Australia - China Relationship (September 2016)
Is Taking Populism
to an Extreme How Donald Trump Gets Away with It?
(September 2016)
A Broader View of the
'Social Determinants of Health' (September 2016)
The Need to
Investigate the Implications of Same-Sex Marriage (August 2016)
International Dimensions of
Perceived Banking System Problems (August 2016)
Beyond
Diversity in the AFP (August 2016)
There is No
Satisfactory Way to Decide on War (August 2016)
Chinese Influence in
Australia (August 2016)
Complicating Welfare
Calculations (August 2016)
Is Naive
Multiculturalism a Major Source of 'Racism'? (August 2016)
What Will Fill the Gap if Christianity Declines
(August 2016)
Queensland's
Government Risks Shooting Itself in the Foot (August 2016)
Economic Babes in the Asian Woods
(August 2016)
Protecting
Australia's Freedom Requires Outthinking Those Who Challenge It
(August 2016)
Did God Say be Ignorant?
(August 2016)
Why Some Assets Should
Not
Be Sold to Foreigners (August 2016)
Australia's
Increasingly Dangerous Environment (August 2016)
Avoiding
Scientific Scepticism: The Main Tactic of the Prevailing Climate Consensus
(August 2016)
About the Source of
and Solutions to Rising Inequality (August 2016)
A Made-in-China
Disaster Waiting to Happen (August 2016)
Northern
Territory Child Protection and Youth Detention Royal Commission: The Risk
of a Cover-up (August 2016)
Victimhood May
Have Become an Intrinsic Feature of Islam (August 2016)
Don't Confuse Rote Learning with Education
(July 2016)
Achieving What
Australia Needs from Innovation (July 2016)
Dismissing
Political Opponents as 'Racists' is Part of the Problem, Not a Solution
(July 2016)
Vilification
Laws Can't Protect Religious Freedom (July 2016)
Philosophical and
Religious Implications of the Limits to Science (July 2016)
Reducing
Ignorance: A Fresh Idea for Terror Response (July 2016)
Terror Must be
Met with Brains - At Long Last (July 2016)
'Please Explain' Idealists' Invasion of Iraq
(July 2016)
International
Regulation of Lending Standards (July 2016)
Equality
Before the Law is Not Enough (July 2016)
Name Calling is Still Not a Sensible Way to Deal with One Nation
(July 2016)
What Then? A
Government of National Unity? (July 2016)
Australians with Indigenous Ancestry Deserve More than Survival
(July 2016)
The Need to Look
Beyond Neo-Liberalism (July 2016)
Will Infrastructure Australia's Project List Meet Australia's Needs?
(June 2016)
Understanding East Asia Requires More Than a Study of Confucian Values
(June 2016)
Broadening,
Rather Than Distorting, the Indigenous Recognition Debate (June 2016)
The Church of
Political Correctness Threatens National Progress (June 2016)
Is Name Calling the Smartest Way to Deal with 'Hate Groups'?
(June 2016)
Queensland's Budget Problems Started MUCH earlier (June 2016)
Don't Overlook Australia's Risk of a 'National' Credit Crisis (June
2016)
Should
Australia's Political Leaders be 'Marketing' Islam? (June 2016)
Boosting Growth Without Just Increasing Debts or Drawing Down Capital
Reserves (June 2016)
Bendigo Mosque
(June 2016)
Christian
Influence on Australia's Political System (June 2016)
Queensland's Preference for Economic Futility (June 2016)
Seeking Catholic
Alternatives to 'Safe Schools' (June 2016)
China's Problem is Neo-Confucianism not Hypothetical 'State Capitalism'
(June 2016)
Why Muslims
Don't Integrate: A Suggestion (June 2016)
The Political
Process is Not the Only Source of Political Turmoil (June 2016)
Islam Promotes
Stress Between Muslims and Everyone Else (June 2016)
Federal Government
'dragging the chain' on Reform of Safe Schools Program (June 2016)
Another Approach
to 'My Big Idea' (June 2016)
Sustainable Growth Requires Ending Low Interest Rates (June 2016)
Developing the
Infrastructure for a New Chinese Empire? (May 2016)
Put Indigenous
People Before Political Gamesmanship (May 2016)
Good Question - But Decades
Late (May 2016)
Could A Chinese
Property Bubble Burst in Australia Also? (May 2016)
Governments would be Stupid to Themselves Try to 'Fund Future Growth'
(May 2016)
Middle East's
Problems: Are Domestic or External Factors More Important? (May 2016)
Infrastructure Spending Is NOT an Answer in Itself (May 2016)
A Case for
'Missionaries' (May 2016)
Interest Rates and The
Challenge of Stimulating a Deflationary Economy (May 2016)
Is Singapore 'Family'?
(May 2016)
Will Populism Fix
What Ails Democracies? (May 2016)
'Smart Cities' Program: Worsening Australia's Infrastructure and Financial
Problems? (April 2016)
An 'Asian' or a
'European' Future (April 2016)
Problems in the Banking System Need a Desktop Analysis First (April
2016)
An Authoritarian or
a Liberal Future for the World (April 2016)
A Banking Royal
Commission and a Potential Financial / Banking Crisis at the Same Time? (April
2016)
Solidarity
with Muslims is OK - Suggesting that Islam Doesn't Need Fundamental Reform
is Not (April 2016)
Alternatives to
Monetary Policy (April 2016)
Does Teachers' Professional Judgment Really
Extend to Whether 'Camp Out' is Safe for Child Sex Abuse Victims?
(April 2016)
Racial
Discrimination is Not the Only Cause of Ethnic Distress (April 2016)
To embrace our
future as an innovation nation, we'll need to get politics out of the
process (2016)
Blessing Gay Couples Is
Not the Best Way to Increase Children's Safety (April 2016)
The West Won't
Defeat ISIS with Military Forces (April 2014)
Is Japan our Best
Strategic Partner for Submarines? (April 2016)
A Financial Wedge to
Start the Reform of Australia's Federal System? (April 2016)
Developing the North
for the Benefit of Australians (March 2016)
Reporting the
Practical Consequences of Changing Religious Adherence (March 2016)
Taxpayer
Support for Religion: The Case for a Benefit / Cost Analysis (March
2016)
CO2: A Forcing
or a Feedback (March 2016)
Discrediting
the Ideological Foundations of Islamist Radicals (March 2016)
New Urban Age Requires Competent State Institutions (March 2016)
Investigating Inadequate
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse by Governments (March 2016)
Should Donald Duck?
(March 2016)
Here's Why Our Latest City Minister Can't Do What needs to be Done any
More than His Predecessor Could (March 2016)
Independent Review of the
Safe Schools Program (March 2016)
Budget Repair (March 2016)
Grounds for Investigating
the Safe Schools Program (February 2016)
Australia is Still Not Serious About Developing Its Innovation
Systems (February 2016)
They Never Learn
(February 2016)
Making Schools Safer
(February 2016)
Islamic
Radicalization: The Perspectives of an Originally Middle Eastern
Australian (February 2016)
The Failure of
Academics and Politicians to Acknowledge the Practical Consequences of
Culture (February 2016)
Improving Democracy
(February 2016)
What Should School
Children Be Taught About Homosexuality? (February 2016)
Morrison Highlighted
the Need for Research Into The Causes of Muslims' Problems (February
2016)
Muslims'
Problems are Not Limited to Islamist Extremism, and Can't Be Solved Simply
by Reclaiming Islam's Past Intellectual Traditions (February 2016)
Justifying the
Opinions of 'Australians of the Year' (January 2016)
Australia's State
and Territory Governments Want a 'Republic' - Whatever That Means
(January 2016)
The US's Preference for
Australia to Buy Japan's Submarines Needs Asia Literate Assessment
(January 2016)
China's Strategic Approach to its Economic and Political Problems: A Speculation
(January 2016)
Muslims Must
Lead the ISIS Fight - But Muslim Armies Can't (January 2016)
Background to The
Case for 'Selling Almost Everything' (January 2016)
Dysfunctional
Democracy (January 2016)
The Need to Rethink
Malcolm Turnbull’s New Strategy to Unlock the North (January 2016)
Getting Aussie
Muslims and non-Muslims Together is Not That Simple (January 2016)
Scepticism about Japan
(January 2016)
Naivety About
Boosting Australia's Innovation Capabilities (January 2016)
The Cultural
Background to East Asian Savings Gluts and Escalating International
Financial Crises (December 2015)
Getting
Australian Muslims a 'Fair Go' (December 2015)
Is 'Truth
Telling on Religion' by Politicians Compatible with a Secular State?
(December 2015)
Eliminating
the Need for Surveillance and Soft Despotism (December 2015)
Where Did
Religious Freedom Come From? (December 2015)
Significant Climate Science Issues Remain Unresolved
(December 2015)
Australia's
Official Misunderstanding of Muslims' Problems (December 2015)
Drawing
Attention to Opportunities to Reform Islam is Constructive (December
2015)
Changing
Religious Affiliation: Why Reliable Statistics are Important (December
2015)
Road Signs in Mandarin:
A Symbol of Australia's Incorporation into the Empire China Hopes to
Create? (December 2015)
Broken Governance and
Ineffectual Economic Strategy: Two Sides of the Same Coin? (December
2015)
Towards a
Frank and Open Discussion About the Causes of Islamist Extremism
(December 2015)
An Outside-in Strategy for Defeating Islamic State? (December 2015)
Studying and
Fixing Islam's Problems (December 2015)
People Who Dismiss Christian Faith Because They Know Better are Building
their Houses on Weak Foundations (November 2015)
Same-sex Marriage Debate
is Not Just About Competing Freedoms (November 2015)
For Better or for Worse? -
Serious Research is Vital Before a Civil Partnerships Bill Could be
Properly Assessed (November 2015)
Towards A
Business-like Approach to Innovation (November 2015)
Changing What
Needs to be Changed: Islam (November 2015)
Current
Anti-Extremism Programs are Probably Almost Content Free (November
2015)
Paris Attacks
In Broader Context? (November 2015)
Winning the
'War on Terror': A Suggestion (November 2015)
Power in East Asia
Comes from Organising Things Through 'Connections' not from Holding Port
Sites (November 2015)
Reforming the
Grand Muftis' Role In Australia? (November 2015)
Embrace
Reformist Muslims in Fight Against Jihadist Threat (November 2015)
Defeating
Islamist Ideology Faces Obstacles (November 2015)
Muslims'
Responsibility For Stopping Terrorism (November 2015)
Are
Service Exports to Asia Australia's Best Economic Options? (November
2015)
Consider Also Port of
Darwin's Potential Significance in any Attempt to Invade Australia
(November 2015)
Low interest rates may
be 'gifts' that keeps on taking (November 2015)
Muslims Need
to Decide for Themselves Whether Islamism Could Work (November 2015)
Amnesty Should
Encourage a 'Big Picture' View of the Asylum-Seeker Crisis (October
2015)
Malcolm
Turnbull's Opportunity to End the Climate Change 'Culture War': Commission
a Serious Review of Believer's Climate Science (October 2015)
All Systematic
/ Shared Worldviews are Religions But Not All Are Equally Beneficial
(October 2015)
China's
Position Can't Be Properly Assessed Just on the Basis of Western Criteria
(October 2015)
The Solution
Must Go Deeper than Race Hate Laws (October 2015)
The Complexity of
National Security (October 2015)
Racism Is Unlikely to Help David Jones or Indigenous Reconciliation
(October 2015)
Encouraging
Reform of Islam: Mr Turnbull's Opportunity to Counter Islamist
Radicalization (October 2015)
Central Planning Is Not Smart - For Infrastructure Just as Much as For the
Economy Generally (October 2015)
The Limits of Mr
Turnbull's History Lessons (October 2015)
As Power Shifts from
the US to the Soviet Union,
to Japan, to China, to .... (September 2015)
Piecemeal
Responses Show Australia Still Doesn't 'Get' Moral Breakdown
(September 2015)
Accelerating the
Emergence of an Innovation System (September 2015)
Unclogging Australia's Cities (September 2015)
Ignorance and
Incompetence is the Biggest Enemy of Reform (September 2015)
Misunderstanding the 'Asian'
Century (September 2015)
Yes, The System is
Broke (September 2015)
Would A Plebiscite on Same Sex Marriage Abuse Children's Rights?
(September 2015)
Australia's Lack of
Strategic Leadership: Addressing the Causes (September 2015)
Reform of Islam
is the Only Real Solution to the Refugee Crisis (September 2015)
Are Unfinished Apartments A Risk in Australia Also? (September 2015)
Recognizing
Atheism as a Religion in Australia's 2016 Census (September
2015)
Political Squabbles About
Now-Uncertain Chinese Investment (September 2015)
China Won't Get Far
Along Its New Silk Road If It Suffers a Political 'Flat Tire'
(September 2015)
'No
Religion' is Not a Valid Census Category (August 2015)
Raising
Productivity Through Economic Leadership (August 2015)
Viewing
China's Likely Breakdown Through the Lens of Traditional East Asian
Cultures (August 2015)
Emphasizing
MPs' Religious Beliefs Won't Lead to a 'Secular' State (August 2015)
Understanding What is
Going on is the Best Response to China (August 2015)
Islamist Extremism is Not Muslim Reformers' Biggest problem [August
2015]
Same Sex Marriage Debate:
Protecting the Rights of Children and Educators (August 2015)
Terrorism
Can't Be Dug Out Just at Grassroots Level [August 2015]
The Unsustainable
Cost of Charities (August 2015)
Would Buying Japanese
Submarines Be Clever? [August 2015]
Comments on
'Good Racism is a Bad Idea' [August 2015]
Context to
China's Sharemarket Boom and Bust [July 2015]
Promoting
Racism Through Sport (July 2015)
Some Thoughts
on Reforming Islam and the World (July 2015)
Accounting Tricks Make it Impossible to Know Queensland's Real Financial
Position (July 2015)
Sex Education in Schools:
Addressing the Really Difficult Issues (July 2015)
What Should
Anyone Actually Try to Prove About God? (June 2015)
Asian
Authoritarians Can't be Contained without Understanding How They Exert
Power [June 2015]
Understanding China's
Current Regime [June 2015]
Military Tactics are Not Enough
(June 2015)
Same Sex Marriage: What if
Being Gay is Usually Not OK? (June 2015)
Will the
Normalization of Interest Rates be Slow? [June 2015]
Sharing the Blame for
Global Economic Failure (May 2015)
The
Re-emergence of 'gods' (May 2015)
Ending Muslim
Jobs' Discrimination is Easy: Just Liberate Muslims (May 2015)
Australia's Infrastructure Incompetence (May 2015)
Kevin Rudd's 'Friendship' with China (May 2015)
Creating
an Environment in Which Australians Can Succeed if They 'Have a Go'
(May 2015)
Making People Independent of the Government Age Pension (May 2015)
Decline and Fall of
the West? (May 2015 )
"Mum and Dad" Chinese Investors
- You Must Be Joking (May 2015)
The Role of
Theology in Combating Islamic State (May 2015)
Monetary Policy is Not
Just a Business / Economic Issue (May 2015)
Exposing the
Unrealistic Intellectual Foundations of Islamist Extremism (April
2015)
The Humanities
May be Thriving - But Universities Aren't (April 2015)
The Politics of
Reforming Australia's Federation (April 2015)
Overcoming
Climate Change Paralysis (April 2015)
Eliminating Excessive Superannuation Tax Concessions Without an
Administrative Nightmare (April 2015)
Countering
Islamic State Propaganda (April 2015)
Ethical Reasons for
Opposing the Public Acceptance of Homosexual Behaviour (April 2015)
Recognizing
What? (April 2015)
About the Context to:
China & the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (April 2015)
"Muslims Youth
Pushed to Margins of Society" - by Islam? (April 2015)
Queensland's Need
for Stronger Institutions (April 2015)
Why Not Write
About the Consequences if God's Houses Empty? (April 2015)
A
Broader Approach to Tax Reform (March 2015)
World Economics Association - Rethinking the International Financial
Architecture (March 2015)
Beyond
Competition Policy (March 2015)
China Does not have a
Normal 'Currency' (March 2015)
Creating a
Better World (March 2015)
The Problem is
Financial, Not Currency, Manipulation (March 2015)
Why Interest Rates Can't Stimulate the
Economy (March 2015)
Monitoring Inflation
Risk (March 2015)
Islamist
Extremists are not Alone in Favouring Pre-modern Social Systems
(February 2015)
A Westminster-style Professional and Independent Public Service: Good Idea
but Wishing Won't Make it So (February 2015)
Rescuing
Islam: Intellectual Freedom for Scholars Would Not Be Enough (February
2015)
Growth
is a Constructive Goal - But is Not Guaranteed (February 2015)
Dumb Ways of Being 'Smart' in Queensland's History (February 2015)
Insubstantial
Election Campaigns are only a Symptom of Australia's Political Malaise
(February 2015)
Merging
Political Power and Religion Can Create Problems (February 2015)
The US's Most
Significant Intelligence Failure? (February 2015)
The Islamic
Roots of Islamic Radicalism (February 2015)
Ending Australia's
Political Paralysis? (February 2015)
Individual
Responsibility for Actions (January 2015)
The
Black Holes in LNP and Labor Economic Agendas (January 2015)
Individual
Accountability to God: A Critical Requirement for Overcoming Muslim
Societies' Historical Disadvantages (January 2015)
Queensland Economic Policy Issues (January 2015)
Economic Policy Principles for Queensland (January 2015)
Putting the Economic Risk of Deflation in Context (January 2015)
Limitations in
Scientific Facts and the New Cosmology (January 2015)
The Could Be the Year We
Acknowledge the 'Weaponization of Finance' (January 2015)
Piketty's Perspective
is Too Narrow (January 2015)
A Deeper Look at
Religion (January 2015)
Reducing the Risk of
Financial / Economic / Political Crises (December 2014)
Helping
Muslims Resist Islamism (December 2014)
Develop
a Productive Economy - But Don't Pick Winners (December 2014)
Rising Inequality:
A Problem that Requires New Methods (December 2014)
The 'Dirty
Work' Needed to Contain Terrorism Risks is a Major Rationale for Terrorism
(December 2014)
Can Australia Learn from East Asian Education Systems? (December 2014)
Turning
Australia Around (December 2014)
Internationalising the
Influence of China's Authoritarian 'Bureaucracy' (December 2014)
Will China's Presidency
in 2016 End the G20's Chronic Failure? (December 2014)
Debunking One Myth about the
Chinese Economy (December 2014)
How Governments Conned
Themselves by Eliminating 'Public' Services (December 2014)
Discrediting
Islamist Ideologies is Not Anti-Muslim (November 2014)
China as a Dominant
Power (November 2014)
Strengthening
Australia's Democracy (November 2014)
Deeper Analysis of Security Issues (November 2014)
Creeping Threats to
Global Economy (November 2014)
Is the 'Free World'
in Decline? (November 2014)
Assessing
China's Prospects (November 2014)
Good Intentions: Bad Results (November 2014)
Sustainable Growth
Requires More than an Infrastructure 'Trick' (November 2014)
If
China is Almost Broke How Can Chinese Investment Save Australia?
(November 2014)
Putting Japan's New QE
in Context (November 2014)
China Opens its
Doors to Private Capital - But Not to Independent Initiative by Citizens
or Investors (November 2014)
An Even Scarier Story
for Emerging Markets (November
2014)
Indigenous
Recognition without Creating a Legal Quagmire (November 2014)
The Future of the
Asia Pacific (October 2014)
Some Thoughts on
the 'New World Order' (October 2014)
Australia's Crisis is Broader than Economics (October 2014)
Increasing
Understanding of Secularism and Freedom (October 2014)
Learning Nothing from
the GFC: Cultural Incompatibilities Continue to be Put in the 'Too Hard'
Basket (October 2014)
Blame
Religious Legalism for the Middle East's Problems (October 2014)
Innovation-led
Growth Requires Business (Not Government) Leadership (October 2014)
Poor Government in Queensland: A Rich Field for Senate Inquiry
(October 2014)
Countering Non-military
Security Threats from East Asia [September 2014]
Beyond State Capitalism in China [September 2014]
Bringing
Freedom to Muslims Would Bring Peace to the Middle East
(September 2014)
Truckers are
not the Foundation of Australia's Liberal Institutions (September
2014)
Politicians
are Wrong: Terrorism by Islamist Extremists Does Involve Islam
(September 2014)
Enlightenment is Needed
to Counter Chaos (September 2014)
Populism has Become
Chronic in Australian Politics (September 2014)
Challenging the
Idea of an Islamic State (September 2014)
'The real reason
the Chinese want Aussie real estate' Needs to be Published (September
2014)
Islamism and
'Team Australia' (August 2014)
Are Analysts Making a Big Mistake about China and Japan?
(August 2014)
Towards a
New Economic Understanding (August 2014)
The
Australian Economy: Alternative Reform Options (August 2014)
An Alternative
to Fighting Radical Islamism for 100 Years (August 2014)
Sorting Out
Australia's Infrastructure Mess Needs 'Government' not Micro-management
(July 2014)
BRICS Bank: Another
Step in Creating Authoritarian Alternatives to Liberal Global Institutions? (July
2014)
Scratching the Surface
of the 'New Japan' (July 2014)
Political
Malfunction in Australia: A Way Forward (July 2014)
Putting Australia's
Speculative Bubble in Context (June 2014)
Why Tolerate
Tolerance? (June 2014)
Is the Barbarity
of ISIS Another Attempt to Ensnare the US in the Middle East? (June
2014)
What Went
Wrong in Iraq? (June 2014)
Would Taxing Churches
Help? (June 2014)
Removing the 'Bamboo Ceiling'
Requires Transparency (June 2014)
Sky High House
Prices (June 2014)
Beijing Could Not
Afford to Wait (June 2014)
The
Resurgence of Ancient Authoritarianism in China (June 2014)
Structural Obstacles to
Global Economic Recovery Need Attention (June 2014)
Supporting the
Disadvantaged when Governments Can't Afford to Do So (June 2014)
Aussies Outsiders to What?
(May 2014)
A Bigger Picture
View of Australia's Challenges (May 2014)
And the Winner of
the 2014 'Pink Batts' Award is .... (May 2014)
Restoring The
Viability of Democratic Capitalism (May 2014)
The Challenge and
Potential Cost of Inequality and Insufficient Income (May 2014)
Who Is Failing the
Lower and Middle Classes? (May 2014)
Aboriginal
Recognition: Moving Forward or Going Round in Circles (April
2014)
Keeping Politics
at Arm's Length is the Key to Australia's Innovative Future (April
2014)
More
Important Choices for Queensland (April 2014)
Stop the Refugees
(April 2014)
What we are Doing to
Victims is Unchristian (March 2014)
China's
Credibility Problem (March 2014)
The 'game is
rigged' for geo-political rather than 'commercial' reasons (March
2014)
Is Bitcoin a Threat?
(March 2014)
Incorporating
the Alienated: A Challenge to Australia's Civil Society (March 2014)
Stand Up, Reach
Out (March 2014)
'Free' Trade with China Remains
Highly Unlikely (March 2014)
It's Time to
Expel Religious Naivety from Universities (February 2014)
Liberty and
Islam in Australia (February 2014)
Putting an End to
Institutional Abuse (February 2014)
Introducing Social Equity into the Economic Agenda (February 2014)
Spilling
the Beans on Government 'Assistance' (February 2014)
Viable Regional Population
Growth in Queensland (January 2014)
Beyond
Infrastructure Despair (January 2014)
Trade is not Enough for
Global Economic Progress (January 2014)
Contributions to
Western Civilisation (January 2014)
Ending
'Politically Correct' Education (January 2014)
Families
Matter (January 2014)
Non-CEO
tells business to get on with reforms (January 2014)
A Bright
Outlook (December 2013)
QE as a
Counter-offensive in a 'Financial War' (December 2013)
Reform:
Its not that Easy (December 2013)
The Choice Between
Evils that Governments Now Face: 'Process Addiction' or Bad Decisions
(December 2013)
Migration: A
Bigger Picture View (December 2013)
Speculations about
Asia's Arm's Race (December 2013)
Making the G20 Useful
at Last (November 2013)
Undermining
Australia's System of Government from the Top? (November 2013)
China's Reform Map Unclear
(November 2013)
The Need for
'Running Repairs to the Ship of State' (November 2013)
Religious
Education: The Need for a Bigger Picture View (November 2013)
Religion in
Australia's Future (November 2013)
The End of the 'Asian Century' Seems to be Coming
into View (November 2013)
Changing Australia's
Security Approach (November 2013)
Doing More
for the Car Industry (November 2013)
Smarter Authoritarians?
(November 2013)
Is China Heading in
the Direction of North Korea? (October 2013)
Same Sex Marriage: Who
is Going to Raise the Moral Issues? (October 2013)
Achieving
Stronger US Export Growth Perhaps Requires Rethinking Economics
(October 2013)
What happens to
a 'house that is swept clean'? (October 2013)
'Rules' that favour
state-linked businesses are not the only behind-the-border problem in
economic dealings with China (October 2013)
'Free' Trade with China: Not
Likely under a Neo-Confucian Regime (October 2013)
A Case for Economic
Gloom Amongst the Pundits' Optimism (October 2013)
Navel Gazing
Certainly Can't Solve the ALP's Problems (September 2013)
Stimulating Practical Action on Productivity (September 2013)
Must
Authoritarianism Triumph This Time? (August 2013)
Independent
Commissions Are Not Enough to Contain Political Corruption (August
2013)
Parting the
Bamboo Curtain ... A Bit (August 2013)
Exploring Homophilia
(August 2013)
Comments on McKinsey Quarterly
Special Edition on China (August 2013)
Playing the
'Racism Card' - Again? (July 2013)
Boat People
Magic? (July 2013)
Please Don't
Trivialize Oppression (July 2013)
Will More Factionalised
Faceless Men Improve Australia's System of Government? (July 2013)
A Challenge to
Australia's Churches? (July 2013)
Australia's Hazardous Foreign Liabilities in an Unstable International
Environment (June 2013)
A Possible Solution to
Transport Nonsense? (June 2013)
Credit Bust First:
'Sixth Revolution' Later (June 2013)
The Dali Lama's
Search for Moral Wisdom (June 2013)
Beyond 'Negative'
and 'Celebrity' Politics (June 2013)
Will the US / China Summit be a
Western or an East Asian Meeting? (June 2013)
Get Ready for
Coalition Chaos (June 2013)
Financial and
Educational Reform in China: Headed in Opposite Directions? (June
2013)
Industry Clusters Based on Engineering: Some Lessons from History (May
2013)
The Infantile US vs China
Debate (May 2013)
'Australia's Competitiveness': Some Suggestions (May 2013)
Fasten Seat Belts: Rough
Weather Ahead (April 2013)
A Diplomatic Coup in Beijing:
By Who? (April 2013)
An 'Art of War'
Perspective on North Korea's Threats (April 2013)
Comments
on Dow's Advanced Manufacturing Plan for Australia (March 2013)
Reforming State Governments: Does Queensland's Commission of Audit Have
the Answer? (March 2013)
After the
Wilders' trip, multicultural Australia needs a reality check
(February 2013)
Understand China's Economic
Rise Before Endorsing It (February 2013)
Boosting
Innovation and Productivity (February 2013)
Running Repairs to
the Ship of State (February 2013)
Major Budget Savings
or a More Complex and Expensive Public Sector? (February 2013)
China's
financial challenges are not limited to its banks (January 2013)
Secular Angels To
'Care for our Souls' Would Kill off Liberal Values (January 2013)
Options to Resolve the
Fiscal Cliff and Reduce Military Spending (January 2013)
Economics
Beyond the Limitations of Science? (January 2013)
Centralization is
Part of the Problem: Not the Solution (January 2013)
Do Atheists
Evangelize 'Good News'? (December 2012)
Child Sex Abuse Inquiry:
Another Official Cover-up? (December 2012)
Progress Towards
Ending the Global Financial Crisis? (December 2012)
Improving Institutional
Responses to Child Abuse: A Strategic Suggestion (November 2012)
Australia in the Claytons
Century: The 'Asian' Century you have when you are not having an Asian
Century (October 2012)
Global Impact
of Booms Stimulated by Easy Monetary Policies (October 2012)
Reading China's Mind?
(October 2012)
Discrediting
Extremists is Long Overdue (October 2012)
Friction between China
and Japan: The End of the Asian 'Century'? (September 2012)
Beyond 'The China
Choice' (August 2012)
An Opportunity to Boost
Asia-literacy (July 2012)
Freedom and
Prosperity in the Middle East (July 2012)
Beyond Eurocentric
Pessimism (July 2012)
The Biggest
Issue Missing from the Asylum Seeker Debate (June 2012)
Ignorant Diplomacy
Still Risks Catastrophe (June 2012)
Fixing
Economics (June 2012)
Auditing the Commission (June 2012)
Developing
Economic Game Changers (June 2012)
Autocratic Asian States and Australia's Economic Options
(June 2012)
Saving Democracy
(May 2012)
Does Popularity Always
Ensure Wise Policy? (May 2012)
Reducing the Need for
Entitlements in a Competitive Economic Environment (April 2012)
A Vague 'Republic'
for a Vague 'Asian Century'? (April 2012)
Can the Commander Do?
(March 2012)
Recovering from Queensland's Debt Binge (March 2012)
The
Parallel Between Bob Katter's Australian Party and Pauline Hanson's One
Nation (March 2012)
Eyes Wide Shut at Davos?
(February 2012)
Australia and the US's
regional push (November 2011)
Getting out of the Economic
Quicksand (November 2011)
World facing 'Crisis of
non-Capitalism': Non-economist (September 2011)
Counter-cyclical policy
can't solve structural problems (August 2011)
Asia's Next Financial
Crisis and its Impact on Australia (August 2011)
Progressive Economic Policy Options (August 2011)
Preparing for Economic Warfare (August 2011)
Making Australian
Leadership in Innovation a Reality (August 2011)
Preventing Economic
Stagnation (August 2011)
Do
Blind Spots Cloud the RBA's 'Lucky Country' Vision? (June 2011)
The Need for Asia Literacy in US
and Australian Foreign Policy (June 2011)
Communism Versus Confucianism:
The Continuing Contest in China (June 2011)
Garnaut Climate
Change Review: The Need for a Broader Approach (June 2011)
Australia's Political
Failure: Is 'The Economist' to Blame? (May 2011)
Hitting Osama,
but Missing Islamist Extremism (May 2011)
Losing What We
Fought For? (May 2011)
TEQSA: Will
Micromanagement Again Triumph over Government? (April 2011)
An 'efficiency dividend' seems
an inefficient way to improve efficiency (April 2011)
Finding Australia's Place in
the International Financial System (April 2011)
Climate change and the
search for balanced research (March 2011)
'The Times They are
a-Changing' - but not always for the better (January 2011)
Improving the
Position of Australians with Indigenous Ancestry (January 2011)
Sharia 4 Australia?
(January 2011)
Stemming Refugee
Flows from the Middle East (January 2011)
Heading for the Grip of
a Great Depression? (January 2011)
Australia's
National History Curriculum: Making Education Futile and Highlighting the
Importance of Christianity? (December 2010)
Suspect house price
statistics: A formula for policy-induced booms and busts? (December
2010)
Ending the
West's Global Predominance? (December 2010)
S-L-O-W Learners
(December 2010)
Explaining prohibitions
on gay marriage to children (November 2010)
Humanism
classes in government schools (November 2010)
'Recognising
Aboriginal peoples in the Constitution': More Symbolism? (November
2010)
An Alternative to
Scapegoating Capitalism (November 2010)
Proposed ASX Takeover:
Lifting the Level of Debate (November 2010)
Comments on
'Australia 2050: Big Australia' (October 2010)
Overlooked Issues Affecting
Australia's Banking System (October 2010)
Speculations
about Queensland's Economic Predicament (October 2010)
Christian
Foundations of Liberal Western Institutions (October 2010)
Resist Protectionism: A
Call That is Decades Too Late (October 2010)
China can't fix the global
currency crisis without economic disaster (October 2010)
Reinventing the
Regions (October 2010)
Making sense of the Chinese way
(October 2010)
China can't be
properly understood in terms of Western economics (September 2009)
Carbon Certainty is
a Long Way Off (September 2010)
Correcting a Few Misconceptions
(September 2010)
The Problem
with Blinkered 'Tolerance' (September 2010)
Tactics used in covering
up sexual abuse of children in the community generally (September
2009)
More
Statesmanship: Less Politics (September 2009)
Economics is only One Factor in
Diplomacy (September 2010)
Asia's Superpower Shuffle
(September 2009)
Who's Got Superman?
(September 2010)
Some Thoughts on the
'China Era' (August 2010)
Looking for
the Invisible Elephant (August 2010)
Seeking
a Strategy for Economic Prosperity (August 2010)
Re-imagining the
Federation to Develop New Cities (July 2010)
China's Bigger Secret (July
2010)
Rising to the Islamic
Challenge (July 2010)
Bringing Balanced
Understandings about Islam into Australian Schools (July 2010)
Thoughts on
Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Australia (July 2010)
Accidentally Encouraging Moral Authoritarianism? (July 2010)
Faith in Science
and Reason: How Much is Right? (June 2010)
Asia's Rising
Atheism (May 2010)
Misunderstanding the 'Asia'
Factor in GFC (May 2010)
RSPT Won't Hurt Miners: But
Pity Help Naive Australians (May 2010)
China may not have the
solution, but it seems to have a problem (March 2010)
Proposed National
History Curriculum: Information without Understanding (March 2010)
Another way of
"Understanding Islamic Terrorism" (February 2010)
Familiarity
with the Bible: Churches' not State Responsibility (December 2009)
Looking for a Better
Federal Public Service: Intellectual Populism? (September 2009)
Taking Exotic
Believers More Seriously (April 2009)
Peter's letters
to the 'Nutters' (January 2009)
Public Service
Magic? (May 2008)
Productivity Magic? (April 2008)
Fixing Australia's
Health and Hospital Systems? (March 2008)
Apology
Magic? (February 2008)
Talkfest Magic?
(February 2008)
Infrastructure Magic? (January 2008)
Australia's New 'Cooperative' Federalism
(December 2007)
Code of Conduct: Do
Moral 'Laws' Raise or Lower Political Standards? (December 2007)
Finding the Truth on Climate Change (November 2007)
Could China Generate a
Financial 'Tsunami'? (October 2007)
Aspirational
Nationalism: 'Third Way politics by Another Name? (September 2007)
Federalism: Why 'Control
Freaks' Don't Achieve Real Results (August 2007)
Countering
Terrorism: Are Australia's Institutions Making Assess of Themselves? (August
2007)
Some Thoughts on Housing
Affordability (June 2007)
A Somewhat Holey View of Religion?
(May 2007)
Fair Work Australia:
Establishing the Machinery of a Socialist State? (April 2007)
Is Education
Spending the Key to Raising Economic Productivity? (January 2007)
Is 'Work Choices'
a Good Choice for Work? (November 2006)
Beyond Sheik al-Hilali's
Claims about Rape (November 2006)
Beyond the
Pope's Claims about 'Forced Conversion' (September 2006)
Continuing the
Separation of Church and State (June 2006)
Is a National
Health Model the Best Remedy? (March 2006)
Combating Terrorism with Civil Liberties (October 2005)
Did God Design a Better
Argument? (September 2005)
The
Cohabitation of Civilizations? (August 2005)
Whatever happened to
welfare? (July 2005)
Disrupting Australian-Indonesian Relations (June 2005)
About the
Washington Consensus (May 2005)
Infrastructure Constraints on Australia's Economy (March 2005)
The Value of Creativity and
Culture (February 2005)
Is Secular
Modernism the Answer?
About the Curse of
Natural Resources (October 2004)
More
on a Solution to Terrorism Risks
Another
Queensland Government Development Strategy. ... Ho Hum! (Sept 2004)
Does free will exist?
Beyond the
'Group of 43'? (August 2004)
Overcoming
the damage done to Australia's Public Service?
Complications
in the Potential Housing Crisis (July 2004)
Queensland's 'Administrative Desperation' Unit (July 2004)
Law Reform to Control
Child Sex Abuse in Institutions?
Context to the US
'Asset Economy' (June 2004)
Reform of Queensland Institutions - or a Rising Tide of Public Hypocrisy?
If Government is
just about values, would the leader be the 'High Priest'?
'Creative
Culture' in Brisbane
Will
Auslink cure or compound Brisbane's traffic congestion?
The Potential for
Economic Instability (May 2004)
Corporatisation of Australia's healthcare system?
Promoting equity by free
private schooling for poorer students?
Are religious
differences or
fundamentalism to
blame for global woes?
Smartening up Queensland's Department of State Development (April
2004)
Australia's
Republican 'Conspiracy'?
Could
US 'Unilateralism' be Gamesmanship? (February 2003)
Queensland's
Rejection of Retail Electricity Competition (October 2001)