As recent US events highlight, social cohesion is severely corroded by taking legions of young people and promising them a world of opportunity while simultaneously mis‑educating them. The package of reforms announced by Education Minister Dan Tehan is a big step in the right direction

A gaggle of academic economists is preaching that the Wuhan virus lockdown must continue because any trade‑off between public health and the counter-measures' disastrous economic impact is 'a false distinction'. What was it Orwell said about some ideas being so absurd only purported intellectuals can advocate them?

When he was the federal Treasurer, Wayne Swan never tired […]