Gambling industry v the federal government

My column today in Sydney Morning Herald on how the gambling industry forced Prime Minister Gillard’s hand on the poker machine reform in a campaign involving Karl Bitar, the former national secretary of the ALP, and formerly one of Gillard’s closest advisors.  Read the article

How to get a free university education

My column in today’s Sydney Morning Herald examines an anomaly in the student loan system that enables well-off graduates to avoid repaying their debt. Read the article

 

 

The paradox of our Prime Minister

My latest article in the Sydney Morning Herald looks at how Julia Gillard’s assets are not being conveyed to the voting public.  Read the article

Watch me on QandA

I appeared on QandA on ABCTV on Monday October 31. You can watch the broadcast here.

Can we ever agree?

My speech to a Public Sector Leadership Summit in Canberra last week on the need for (and lack of) a national collective vision in Australia today.

Australian Public Sector Leadership Summit 2011

 

Australian Women on the Verge

My Keynote Address to the National Labor Women’s Conference in Brisbane on May 14 in which I celebrate Labor’s success in women’s political leadership but call on the government to take urgent action to improve women’s workforce participation by addressing equality in employment via the EOWA legislation, and to radically reform childcare. Nat Labor [...]

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