Issue 2022 August 20
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We Already Have a Powerful Indigenous Voice in Parliament
Every once in a while a new MP’s arrival in Canberra sends a shockwave through the Parliament and out into the wider nation. This happened again on the evening of July 27, 2022, when Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stood up in the Senate to deliver her first speech. It was a speech that was, in her own words, “for all Australians”. Describing herself as…
Time for an Economic Reset to Rebuild Industries
For decades, Australia pursued a heady cocktail of economic globalisation on the assumption that the major powers would abide by free trade principles and a rules-based global economic order. Those assumptions are gone. In the face of China’s belligerence towards Taiwan and concerted push into the Pacific, the Federal Government is undertaking a major review of Australia’s defence strategy. It also needs to…
