In The Australian today:
"With Qantas apparently on today’s cabinet agenda, the flying kangaroo seems beleaguered in each major area of its operations. But while Tony Abbott has taken a debt guarantee off the table, repealing the Qantas Sale Act not only faces Senate hurdles but may not be sufficient to address the airline’s problems."

In The Australian today:

"Ever since the first G6 summit, held outside Paris in the wake of the 1973-74 oil shock, economic summitry has been condemned to a cycle in which initial enthusiasm degenerates into stage-managed ritual. With the raptures that greeted the formation of the G20 now a fading embarrassment, the weekend's gathering of finance ministers and central bankers did little to rise above a footnote in the annals of international relations."

In The Australian today:
"It is an honour to be rebutted by a former prime minister. But Julia Gillard’s claim, (”Laws and Fair Work”, Letters, Feb 14) that I “misled readers” in describing Labor’s changes to the industrial relations laws does not stand up to scrutiny."

In The Australian today:
"And then there were none. Late in May last year, Ford announced it would cease its vehicle assembly and engine production in Australia in October 2016; just before Christmas, General Motors Holden followed, with its closure due to occur by the end of 2017; and last week was Toyota’s turn, with its manufacturing operations also set to close by the end of 2017. "

In The Australian today:
"After the 1983 election, when half the Australian workforce were union members, barely a third of the ALP’s new MPs thanked the unions in their maiden speech. By the 2013 election, union membership had fallen below 20 per cent of the workforce; but more than 90 per cent of Labor’s new MPs devoted part of their first speech to praising the union movement."

In The Australian today:
"Malcolm Turnbull is right to check whether the ABC and the SBS provide taxpayers with value for money. But to ensure good use of the community's resources, it is not enough to ask whether the public service broadcasters are doing what they do properly; one must also ask whether they are doing the right things. "