I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

Governments enjoying surpluses have a very strong temptation to splash money around, and while tax cuts are always appealing, cutting taxes at the top of a boom runs the real risk of creating a structural deficit when the boom subsides.

The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.

I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.