Opinion Pieces
- Every candidate, and every party, must get strongly behind implementing vital state education reforms, Talking Point, The Mercury, 1 July 2025, with Saul Eslake and Michael Rowan
- Why migration is the mother of all problems, Talking Point, The Mercury, June 2025
- Path forward on education needs careful thought, Talking Point, The Mercury, 7 February, 2025 Part 1, Part 2
- Why we need to offer a great education to all, Talking Point, The Mercury, 17 October, 2024
- People's ages need to be part of the planning process for Tasmania's future liveability, Talking Point, The Mercury, 3 October, 2024
- Governments caught napping by rapid ageing, Talking Point, The Mercury, 6 September, 2024
- Problems grow as our birthrate keeps shrinking, Talking Point, The Mercury, 7 August 2024
- State's future depends on a sound education, Talking Point, The Mercury, 2024 - with Saul Eslake and Michael Rowan
- Where has it all gone wrong in state's schools?, Talking Point, The Mercury, 20 March 2024 - with Saul Eslake and Michael Rowan
- Population growth strategy needs to involved attracting the people we 'need', Talking Point, The Mercury, 8 August, 2022
- The life-long and long-term social and economic costs of low and declining literacy and numeracy in Tasmania, Talking Point, The Mercury, 21 December 2021
- Responsibility for education levels lies with system, not parents, Talking Point, The Mercury, 14 July 2021
- Education policies fail students with learning disabilities, Talking Point, The Mercury, 23 June 2021
- Reflections from a far: the political economy in Tasmania, blog, 2 February 2021
- Opinion Piece, It’s time for Tasmania to make education our top priority, The Mercury, 9 November 2020
- Opinion Piece, Two kids in every classroom have DLD and they need support, Mercury, 16 October 2020
- Opinion Piece, What does it mean to be literate?, The Mercury, 8 September 2020 with Dr Becky Shelley
- Opinion Piece, Primary schoolers need career advice to set themselves up for the future, August 2020
- Moving tourism forward with the community, The Mercury, 3 July, 2020 with Professor Can Seng Ooi and Dr Becky Shelley
- Opinion Piece: Cleaning up Tassie's workforce, The Mercury, 29 June 2020
- Opinion Piece: Rebuild crumbling towns and harness power of ageing population, The Mercury, 2020
- Opinion Piece: Coronavirus pandemic exposes cracks in nation's economy, The Mercury, 11 May 2020
- Opinion Piece: The white economy is our future, The Mercury, 14 April, 2020
- Talking Point, Hobart needs a co-ed city high school, The Mercury, 4 March 2020
- Opinion Piece: Long road to recovery must start now, The Mercury, 26 March, 2020
- Opinion Piece, Future Tasmania: We are lucky to have got here ... so the future will rely on a rethink, The Mercury, 2019
- Opinion Piece, Only new rules can ease the pain of this industrial revolution, The Mercury, 24 October 2019
- Opinion Piece, Tasmania is on track for population decline, despite recent rises, The Mercury, 16 June 2019
- Opinion Piece, Jobs race a matter of rich and poor, 6 April 2019
- Opinion Piece, Just one thing can derail any Tasmanian's path through life, the Mercury, 23 May 2019
- Opinion Piece, No middle ground in jobs future, the Mercury, 2019
- Nagging questions in growth game, Talking Point, The Mercury, 2018
- Counting costs of leaving skills at home, Talking Point, The Mercury, 10 August 2018
- We need to talk about aged care, Talking Point, The Mercury, 21 June 2018, with Dr Susan Banks
- Tasmania's population tide has turned, Talking Point, The Mercury, 22 March 2018
- Fewer births a spanner in push for population, Talking Point, The Mercury, 24 January, 2018
- Planning Tasmania's workforce is a fine art, Talking Point, The Mercury, 12 January 2018
- Hang on for workforce disruption, Talking Point, The Mercury, 12 December, 2017
- Opinion Piece: Jobs of the future coming ready or not, The Mercury, 30 September, 2017
- Opinion piece: Breed success with population, The Mercury, 15 December, 2016
- Opinion piece: Learning to deliver opportunity, The Mercury, 8 October, 2016
- Tourism boom brings chance to boost population, Talking Point, The Mercury, 15 March, 2016
- Opinion piece: We're not the only ones getting old, The Mercury, Saturday, 11 April, 2015
- I just want the best for my boy, The Mercury, 10 November 2014
- Deep cuts not worth all the cost, OpEd, The Mercury, 30 September, 2014,
- Opinion piece: Sunday Soapbox: Love Mofo, but anyone seen our old mojo?, The Sunday Tasmanian, 29 June, 2014
- Opinion piece: Sunday Soapbox: Sharing the caring will help dads and mums, The Sunday Tasmanian, 11 May 2014
- Opinion piece: Tasmania is Turning Grey, New Matilda, 11 April, 2014
- Opinion piece: Tassie facing an age-old dilemma, The Mercury, 8 February 2014
