With more than half of all homeless people under the age of 24, homelessness disproportionately affects our children and youth. As Shadow Minister for Education, I care deeply about ensuring…
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Vinnies’ CEO Sleepout 2013
Article: Australian MPs pick up torch in fight against global anti-Semitism
Originally published in Haaretz, Israeli Daily Newspaper. Australian MPs pick up torch in fight against global anti-SemitismAll 105 federal Liberal MPs and senators join the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism.By…
Op-ed: Labor taking support in SA for granted
Originally published as an op-ed in The Advertiser on 5 April 2012. PEOPLE in South Australia are rightly questioning why Federal Labor is splashing $1.5 billion in the electorates of…
Article by Miranda Devine - Gonski Illusion
Original article in The Daily Telegraph by Miranda Devine. THE most despicable thing about the “I give a Gonski” ads on TV is their dishonest use of a young boy…
Parliament In Dire Need Of Reform
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 30 January 2013. The Parliament is controlled and defined by the government, the example set by the prime minister and the…
Increasing school autonomy the key
(Originally published in The Australian) LOOKING at a list of top performing schools, the tendency for government and policy makers is to seek among them commonalities that can be isolated…
Tony Abbott knows he is landing the blows
Ross Fitzgerald - The Daily Telegraph – January 05, 201212:00AM OVER the past few months, Labor's standard attack on Tony Abbott has been that he's “too negative”. They've even published a…
Government to blame for boats
An opinion piece by Christopher Pyne published in the Australian on 27th of December 2011
The Constitution makes the only prerequisite to form a government in Australia the ability to control a majority of the elected members on the floor of the House of Representatives,…
The effectiveness of the Abbott Coalition
Emeritus Professor of History and Politics, Ross Fitzgerald examines the effectivenesss of the Coalition's campaign in the Daily Telegraph
OVER the past few months, Labor's standard attack on Tony Abbott has been that he's “too negative”. They've even published a pamphlet about the Opposition Leader: The Little Book of…
School funding review
Cost of living increases have battered South Australians over the past few years. Electricity prices in particular have hit many people hard. Up by 75 per cent since 2002, we…