As the cold truth of the effects of the 2014 Budget come to light day by day, particularly its effects on people on low and middle incomes,  novelist Armistead Maupin’s description of contemporary American life – these new hard times – seems now particularly befitting for Australia. The description is used in Maupin’s  reprise of his Tales of the City…

The 2014 Federal Budget has ushered in a sweeping set of reforms to Australian social and economic landscape. My commentary is – https://theconversation.com/young-people-are-now-on-the-edge-of-our-reconfigured-welfare-state-26697 https://theconversation.com/federal-budget-2014-political-experts-react-26574

The Abbott Government’s National Commission of Audit released its report on 1 May. Here is what I said about it in a hastily written article for the Conversation: Commission of Audit wants to rip up Australia’s social contract There is much more that could be said and many more of the policy recommendations warrant thorough…