 Earlier contributions to IPA publications dealt with the importance of community self-reliance and mutualism in the 1995 article "Between Individual and State" and on the history of gambling regulation in Australia in "Gambling and the State" in 1996.He also contributed to the Health Care reform debate in 2004 emphasising the role and potential of mutualism in an article published by the libertarian think-tank Centre for Independent Studies.In 2010 he published an essay called "Twelve Reasons Why Australia Needs a Conservative Party", in which he said