Recent Media & Speeches

7 November 2024 Published in The Australian. —— Rightly or wrongly, for better or for worse, the president of the US is the leader of the free world and therefore our president too. That’s why it’s the job of the Australian prime minister to work...

5 November 2024 Published in The Daily Telegraph. —— When I gave the first Bradfield lecture ten years back, Sydney was a city choking on its own traffic thanks to inadequate expressways that didn’t join up. Thanks largely to the initiatives of the Abbott federal...

Originally delivered to the Alliance of Responsible Citizenship at the International Convention Center, Sydney Revised version published in The Australian. E&OE —— It’s good that ARC is here in Australia telling a better story, because we sure need a better story told, and we sure...