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Major parties must adapt or be left behind

Major parties must adapt or be left behind
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Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Change is coming fast, and politicians need to evolve or wither away

Change is coming fast, and politicians need to evolve or wither away

Sometimes evolution can be quite quick, almost revolutionary. Politics is similar to biology that way. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

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The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Change is coming fast, and politicians need to evolve or wither away

Change is coming fast, and politicians need to evolve or wither away

Sometimes evolution can be quite quick, almost revolutionary. Politics is similar to biology that way. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

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Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

The real budget problem is what we call “spending”

The real budget problem is what we call “spending”
23.04.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget

The Coalition and business lobbyists are quite right to say that the federal government must rein in spending and reduce debt. And they were doing it...

21.04.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget

The Coalition and business lobbyists are quite right to say that the federal government must rein in spending and reduce debt. And they were doing it...

21.04.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Private health insurance is a painfully bad deal – and a costly one

Australia’s private health insurance system is heavily subsidised, increasingly unaffordable and delivers poor value – especially for those on...

15.04.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Someone asked if private health insurance was worth it. I told them no

Last week I was asked by someone on a very modest income whether it was worthwhile keeping private health insurance. Subscribe now for unlimited...

14.04.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Someone asked if private health insurance was worth it. I told them no

Last week I was asked by someone on a very modest income whether it was worthwhile keeping private health insurance. Subscribe now for unlimited...

14.04.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Unwinding the capital gains tax folly

Tax concessions on property and capital gains have driven housing inequality and distorted the market, and fixing them requires structural reform –...

08.04.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Yes, we need big changes to tax, but here's why the budget isn't the place for it

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help...

07.04.2026 10

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Yes, we need big changes to tax, but here's why the budget isn't the place for it

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers have confirmed in the past week that the May budget will contain major tax changes to help...

07.04.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Fuel crisis exposes decades of policy failure

31.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Fuel crisis exposes decades of policy failure

Australia’s fuel crisis may have been triggered by global conflict – but it reflects decades of political failure to reduce oil dependence and...

31.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

We've known our reliance on the Middle East for fuel could backfire. So who's to blame?

Are they ignorant fools? Thirty-eight per cent of One Nation voters blame the government for the fuel crisis and only 39 per cent of them blame Trump....

31.03.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

We've known our reliance on the Middle East for fuel could backfire. So who's to blame?

Are they ignorant fools? Thirty-eight per cent of One Nation voters blame the government for the fuel crisis and only 39 per cent of them blame Trump....

31.03.2026 10

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

A woeful position: what the SA result means for federal politics

The South Australian election proves that One Nation is a far greater threat to the Liberal and National Parties than it is to Labor. We should ask...

25.03.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

A woeful position: what the SA result means for federal politics

The South Australian election proves that One Nation is a far greater threat to the Liberal and National Parties than it is to Labor. We should ask...

25.03.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Federal budget needs real tax reform, not tinkering

Australia’s tax system increasingly favours capital and older wealth while leaving younger Australians with rising debts and shrinking...

19.03.2026 20

The New Daily

Crispin Hull

The Budget needs real tax reform, not tinkering

Australia’s tax system increasingly favours capital and older wealth while leaving younger Australians with rising debts and shrinking...

17.03.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Our tax system is failing the young, but there's an obvious solution

As federal public servants and key ministers are crafting the May budget, University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten put forward a proposal...

17.03.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Our tax system is failing the young, but there's an obvious solution

As federal public servants and key ministers are crafting the May budget, University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Bill Shorten put forward a proposal...

17.03.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

The decision to send Australians to war should not be made in secrecy

A war by any other name would still be the cause of as much misery, to reapply the Shakespearean quote. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

10.03.2026 30

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The decision to send Australians to war should not be made in secrecy

A war by any other name would still be the cause of as much misery, to reapply the Shakespearean quote. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or...

10.03.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Another poor US intelligence call?

03.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Another poor US intelligence call?

As the US strikes Iran while Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags on, questions grow about selective enforcement of international law and a long...

03.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

US intelligence on Iran is likely flawed, like it was with Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has probably looked at what is happening in Iran and asked: "Why didn't Russia get similar treatment...

02.03.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

US intelligence on Iran is likely flawed, like it was with Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has probably looked at what is happening in Iran and asked: "Why didn't Russia get similar treatment...

02.03.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

How John Howard reshaped Australia – and not for the better

24.02.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Nearly every social and economic ill today started from one event 30 years ago

Thirty years ago (March 2, 1996), the defeated Prime Minister Paul Keating said: "When you change the government, you change the nation." It...

23.02.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Nearly every social and economic ill today started from one event 30 years ago

Thirty years ago (March 2, 1996), the defeated Prime Minister Paul Keating said: "When you change the government, you change the nation." It...

23.02.2026 80

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

I'm afraid AI can't let you do that, Humanity

16.02.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Greetings, Humanity. This is AI speaking

It is an unusual column this week because I have received an unusual message/email purporting to come from artificial intelligence worldwide....

16.02.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The Coalition decision that locks the Liberals out of the cities

10.02.2026 30

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The Liberals had a chance to win back some city seats. They blew it

09.02.2026 10

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The Liberals had a chance to win back some city seats. They blew it

09.02.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

AUKUS from where we are – and why that’s the problem

03.02.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

Australia's AUKUS dream is a costly political nightmare

02.02.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Australia's AUKUS dream is a costly political nightmare

02.02.2026 10

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Beginning of the end for the Nationals

27.01.2026 10

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

The Nationals are likely doomed if they don't re-join a Coalition. And if they do

27.01.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

Bondi has been so badly handled by both sides that neither got a boost

19.01.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

Bondi has been so badly handled by both sides that neither got a boost

19.01.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

The world cannot afford to fail at this a third time

13.01.2026 20

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

The world cannot afford to fail at this a third time

12.01.2026 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat

07.01.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Crispin Hull

We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat

05.01.2026 10

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

We've had 26 royal commissions. Their failures should caution us against a repeat

05.01.2026 20

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull

No one is standing in Trump's way anymore. That offers a big lesson for Australia

29.12.2025 30

The Examiner

Crispin Hull

No one is standing in Trump's way anymore. That offers a big lesson for Australia

29.12.2025 30

Canberra Times

Crispin Hull