Don't laugh, but Malcolm Turnbull could actually pull it off if he is of a mind to implement a policy that would jump-start the digital economy's massive expansion, a goal he has professed himself eager to achieve. The luvvies wouldn't like it, not at first, but there are ways to win them over

Dig, dam and de-centralise are the key elements in preserving the nation's current prosperity and positioning it for boom times yet to come. Unassailable as the logic is, any such programme will inevitably infuriate the green lobby, which implies yet another 'D": determination

The godless may well persuade themselves that their stocks are rising, and the empty pews in our Western churches do little to diminish that impression. But here is a fact beyond dispute: While believers breed, especially in the less developed world, those who scoff at the spiritual mostly do not

Australians voted not so long ago to maintain the monarch as our head of state, but that resounding defeat appears merely to have suppressed the enthusiasm of the Crown's foes. As the spectre of yet another push manifests itself, let us hammer the stake of good sense through the beast’s heart

A great friend of Quadrant, the conservative movement and Australia, the engineer and business leader has passed away at the age of 83