Page Research Centre

Page Research Centre Our nation is reliant on our rural economy & our regional communities, which form the foundation of our national prosperity.

With our unique regional perspective, we seek to inform and influence policy that delivers positive outcomes for all Australians. The Page Research Centre was launched on 11th February 2003 by The Nationals then leader and Deputy Prime Minister the Hon John Anderson MP. He announced on that occasion that “The Page Research Centre is Australia’s newest think tank and will have a comparable role to

the Menzies and Chifley Research Centres. It is affiliated with the National Party, but will carry out independent research into the strategic issues affecting rural and regional Australia.”

The Page Research Centre occupies a unique place in Australian policy research in that we, like The Nationals, are concerned with driving debate and policy which affects our vital rural and regional areas. We are grateful for the privileged access we enjoy to The Nationals, especially in that the work we generate can have a direct impact on party and government policy. It means we are mindful of the responsibility we have to commission and publish the most thoroughly well researched papers and policy reviews, and hold lectures and conferences which speak to the vital issues affecting Australia. The Page Research Centre is a non-profit organisation which is sustained by individual and corporate donations, and by an annual grant from the Department of Finance.

Australia is erasing it's women. Biological men who identify as women are being given pregnancy protections, despite it ...
05/06/2026

Australia is erasing it's women. Biological men who identify as women are being given pregnancy protections, despite it being biologically impossible for them to fall pregnant.

In a recent Senate hearing, Australia’s S*x Discrimination Commissioner, Dr Anna Cody, admitted that trans women, who are biologically incapable of pregnancy, could be unlawfully discriminated against on the basis of ‘potential pregnancy’.

That is to say, if a biological male applies for a job as a trans woman, and the employer wrongly assumes he might become pregnant, he could be protected by s*x discrimination law because of his supposed ‘potential’ to fall pregnant.

This is absurd. Quite literally.

How can a person be discriminated against on the basis of ‘potential pregnancy’ when that person has no potential to become pregnant?

The dark irony is that these changes were passed by our first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. Back in 2013, the left-wing Government amended the S*x Discrimination Act, removing the ordinary meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’, and adding gender identity as a protected attribute. In an attempt to protect women, Gillard ended up stripping the meaning out of biological s*x. Now the law cannot even say that pregnancy belongs to women.

Australia is beyond satire at this point.

04/06/2026

In Monty Python’s 1979 comedy 'Life of Brian', Stan, a character living in ancient times, says he wants to be a woman called Loretta because he wants to have babies. Obviously, because he is a man, he cannot have babies.

Despite this, some of his friends agree to fight for his right to have babies, calling it “symbolic of our struggle against oppression.”

Reg then retorts: “Symbolic of his struggle against reality.”

Somehow, 45 years later, Australia’s laws have turned that satire into a reality.

At Senate Estimates, the S*x Discrimination Commissioner acknowledged that trans women, despite being biologically incapable of pregnancy, could potentially be protected from discrimination on the basis of 'potential pregnancy'.

Huh?

The S*x Discrimination Act was created to protect women from discrimination linked to pregnancy and childbirth. Now it’s being interpreted in ways that extend those protections to people who cannot become pregnant. By the letter of the law, this interpretation isn't wrong, so it goes to show just how ridiculous the law is to begin with.

Australia should immediately amend the S*x Discrimination Act and restore a clear recognition of biological s*x.

04/06/2026

For every dollar over 45k, Australians get taxed at least 30% of their income, with some individuals paying 45% of their personal income, one of the highest rates in the world. Add on top of this a Medicare levy.

Then in addition to this, Aussies must pay 12% into superannuation, which is unable to be accessed until you are at least 60.

Then everything bought or sold has a 10% goods and service tax, in addition to all the excise taxes, like a tax on fuel, alcohol & to***co.

The list goes on and on. Buy a house? Transfer duty. Sell a house? Capital gains tax. Own land? Land tax and council rates. Own a car? Vehicle licence duty, rego fees and fuel excise, etc etc.

Does this sound fair to you?

Australians pay up to 45% of their personal income in tax, one of the highest rates in the world. Buy or sell a house? T...
04/06/2026

Australians pay up to 45% of their personal income in tax, one of the highest rates in the world. Buy or sell a house? Taxed. Own a car or land? Taxed. Buy something from a store? That will be 10% in tax, please...

It has gotten so bad that many working Australians now spend the equivalent of Monday and Tuesday working for the government. And that is just income tax.

But with so much revenue, Australia’s budget must be in great shape, right?

Wrong.

Year after year, Australia’s left wing government continues its record-high spending, estimated at $880b, with debt now nearing $1 trillion. Meanwhile, more and more Aussies are struggling to afford the basics, like rent, electricity and fuel.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists that the economy is on the up, but the lived reality for ordinary Aussies says otherwise. With so little take-home pay and exorbitantly high taxation that isn't resulting in improved services, many Australians are rightly angry.

For a government that claims to stand for working people, it seems awfully good at taking from them.

Workers are the backbone of Australia, and they should not be bled dry by a government that refuses to live within its means.

02/06/2026

The dark irony is that these changes were passed by Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. In 2013, the left-wing Government amended the S*x Discrimination Act, removing the ordinary meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’, and adding gender identity as a protected attribute.

In an attempt to protect women, Gillard ended up stripping the meaning out of biological s*x. Now the law cannot even say that pregnancy belongs to women. Australia is no longer just beyond satire. It has become the satire.

28/05/2026

Australia's story is unique among all other English peoples. Our founders came, many of them forcibly as convicts, to a harsh, barren land. By tenacity and self-sacrifice, they built a paradise in the desert. Their character was marked by the virtues of tenacity, courage, faith, loyalty, justice and sacrifice.

Nothing better exemplifies this Australian virtue better than the ANZACs. In WWI, almost 60,000 young men sacrificed their lives for something greater than themselves. More than 165,000 were wounded, many more than once.

But this history, this story, is being lost.

Not only is mass migration replacing us with an imported population, but our own story is being stolen from us. Our forebears are no longer spoken of as settlers and pioneers, but as invaders, colonisers and oppressors.

You see it everywhere now. The Captain Cook statue in St Kilda was sawn off at the ankles. A Queen Victoria monument was covered in red paint. A statue of King George V was beheaded. Cook’s Cottage was spray-painted and the statue beside it was attacked.

In Flagstaff Gardens, the 155-year-old Pioneer Monument, built to remember some of Victoria’s earliest settlers, was pulled down and left in pieces. The Separation Memorial, remembering Victoria’s birth as its own colony, was graffitied with “land back”.

These are visible signs of a country being taught to despise its own heritage. At every public event, we sit through 'welcome to country' ceremonies, as if we need to be welcomed to the country our ancestors built. To many veterans who fought for this country, it feels like a slap in the face.

Meanwhile, even the well-meaning have gone astray. People speak of 'Australian values' like 'mateship' or 'a fair go', but these are only lacklustre modern substitutes for the real virtues of our people, made simple and broadly appealing. This isn't to denegrate our values, but to recognise our values and character goes much deeper than simply looking out for your mates.

A people without a story will slowly drift, and inevitably their history will be rewritten by those who hate it. If we do not reclaim our own story and legends, we will be cease to be.

22/05/2026

Aussies are not having enough babies to replace themselves, and there is a few clear reasons why.

One is obvious: housing. The median Australian house price is now over $1 million, and it takes 11 years to save a 20% deposit. Young couples are either locked out completely, or trapped paying off a mortgage for the rest of their lives.

But it goes deeper than money. Australia’s education system teaches young people to feel ashamed of their own heritage. Their ancestors are framed as invaders and colonisers, while monuments to the men who built the country are torn down.

Australia needs renewal. Now, before it is too late.

20/05/2026

Please share this far and wide. Australia’s childcare debate is usually framed around workforce participation, but the missing question is much more important: what do mothers actually want, and why does the system punish them for choosing care?

The government is projected to spend $16.2bn a year on childcare subsidies. By comparison, only $4.8bn goes toward Paid Parental Leave, and there is still no home-care allowance for parents who provide care themselves.

This doesn't reflect what many parents want. Surveys have consistently shown that many mothers would prefer to care for their children themselves in the early years, or leave them with someone they trust, usually family, rather than rely on institutional childcare as the default.

This goes far beyond mere sentimentality. The first years of life are a period of rapid emotional and neurological development. Secure attachment, stress regulation and early learning form through repeated, responsive interactions with familiar adults. This bond forms most reliably with a small number of consistent caregivers, which historically, has typically been the mother.

Yet Australian policy pushes in the opposite direction. Once Paid Parental Leave ends, many mothers face the brutal choice of either returning to paid work earlier than they want, or lose financial support during the years when their children need the most stability. And that is assuming that the mother was working in the first place. If she wasn't, then she gets little to no state support.

For many couples, this isn't a choice. The dire state of the economy means many mothers have to return to work.

The real issue isn't whether childcare should exist. Many families need it, and many parents want it. The problem is that Australia has built a system where one pathway is subsidised, promoted and professionalised, while parental care is treated as economically invisible.

Mothers should not be punished for choosing to do the work society depends on.

Sources: In the comments

Australia’s childcare debate is usually framed around workforce participation, but the missing question is much more imp...
19/05/2026

Australia’s childcare debate is usually framed around workforce participation, but the missing question is much more important: what do mothers actually want, and why does the system punish them for choosing care?

The government is projected to spend $16.2bn a year on childcare subsidies. By comparison, only $4.8bn goes toward Paid Parental Leave, and there is still no home-care allowance for parents who provide care themselves.

This doesn't reflect what many parents want.

Surveys have consistently shown that many mothers would prefer to care for their children themselves in the early years, or leave them with someone they trust, usually family, rather than rely on institutional childcare as the default.

This goes far beyond mere sentimentality. The first years of life are a period of rapid emotional and neurological development. Secure attachment, stress regulation and early learning form through repeated, responsive interactions with familiar adults. This bond forms most reliably with a small number of consistent caregivers, which historically, has typically been the mother.

Yet Australian policy pushes in the opposite direction. Once Paid Parental Leave ends, many mothers face the brutal choice of either returning to paid work earlier than they want, or lose financial support during the years when their children need the most stability. And that is assuming that the mother was working in the first place. If she wasn't, then she gets little to no state support.

For many couples, this isn't a choice. The dire state of the economy means many mothers have to return to work.

The real issue isn't whether childcare should exist. Many families need it, and many parents want it. The problem is that Australia has built a system where one pathway is subsidised, promoted and professionalised, while parental care is treated as economically invisible.

Mothers should not be punished for choosing to do the work society depends on.

Address

Canberra Central, ACT

Telephone

+61262738382

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Page Research Centre posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organization

Send a message to Page Research Centre:

Shortcuts

Share

Category