Demography is Destiny: Families and future Prosperity
A presentation to the Budapest Demographic Summit III, Budapest, Hungary, September 5, 2019 In the introduction to my book, Maybe ‘I do’ – Modern marriage and the pursuit of happiness, I wrote: The greatest threat facing the western world is…
Some Reflections on the Australian Parliamentary committee system - An address to the seminar on Parliamentary Reform in Malaysia
Parliament House, Kuala Lumpur, December 8, 2018 Mr Speaker, Finance Minister, Excellencies, including the Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, Members of the Malaysian Parliament, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for the kind invitation to participate in this important…
Address to the Howard Government retrospective
The New Government’s Agenda An address to the ‘Howard Government Retrospective: 1996 conference’, Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society and the Menzies Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Canberra, November 16, 2016 All governments are…
Speech to the Drug Advisory Council of Australia: Soft on Drugs Hard on Families
The Melbourne Age reported on September 30 that: Almost 40,000 frontline workers will be trained in how to deal with ice-affected people, in an admission the drug epidemic is taking a toll on an unprecedented number of workers. The report…