Eastern Riverina Chronicle
Simon Cowan

Simon Cowan

Canberra Times columnist
Simon Cowan is research director at the Centre for Independent Studies and a regular columnist for The Canberra Times.

How an opposition determined to fail handed Albanese many easy wins

Who really holds the power in a fractured 2026?

Simon Cowan
How an opposition determined to fail handed Albanese many easy wins

There is a better way for super funds to fix the housing crisis

Funding new homes is not the answer the govt thinks it is.

Simon Cowan
There is a better way for super funds to fix the housing crisis

Hear me out - the key to fixing all this division and extremism is increased wages

Winning elections - not good government - seems to be the objective now.

Simon Cowan
Hear me out - the key to fixing all this division and extremism is increased wages

A good budget means setting some rules and adhering to them

Spending is the most important variable to control

Simon Cowan, Robert Carling
A good budget means setting some rules and adhering to them

The hard truth: why the government should let this smelter fail

If Tomago deserves a bailout, then so do thousands of other businesses.

Simon Cowan
The hard truth: why the government should let this smelter fail

Here's how to fix poverty without taxing the rest of us more

Activists don't care about getting value out of our taxes.

Simon Cowan
Here's how to fix poverty without taxing the rest of us more

Pump the brakes, Hastie. Let me explain how wrong you've gotten it

This nostalgia trip is a bit like a drunken 3am text.

Simon Cowan
Pump the brakes, Hastie. Let me explain how wrong you've gotten it