The most predictable recommendation of the recent Inquiry into the response to the COVID pandemic—some would say panic-demic—is to establish an Australian Centre for Disease Control. Many of the institutional submissions to the Inquiry recommended it. They got their way: more money...

The poverty lobby is at it again. Even though the massive expansion of the welfare state has diminished the stressors of poverty, the Brotherhood of St Laurence complains there is no official poverty line 50 years after Australia’s Commission of Inquiry into...