Seeking That Post-COVID Sunshine: Treasurer Frydenberg’s Economic Statement
By Denis Bright My Preface As a financial member of the MEAA, I am always on my best behaviour when interacting with representatives of the […]
Politics
Greasing the Revolving Door: Palantir Recruits Down Under
When he announced at the end of April that he would be retiring, thereby vacating the federal seat of Eden-Monaro, the Australian Labor Party’s Mike […]
Please, won’t you just say it as it is?
President Trump is giving his daily press conference and on a split screen a man constantly interrupts to point out his lies, his misrepresentations, his […]
The Trump Dx – Have we seen the clincher?
By Ad astra Code: Dx = diagnosis. ‘The clincher’ = a fact, argument, or event that settles a matter conclusively. How many times have we […]
The Rorts, the Guidelines and the Minister
By Scott Hamilton In episode seven, season three of ‘Yes Minister’, the Right Honourable Jim Hacker MP visits his local sporting club to watch his […]
Turnbull: Just the man to tell all (part 2)
I always had a soft spot for Malcolm Turnbull. The early pages of his memoirs outline the many occupations he experienced as a young man […]
Into the Post-Corona Era: Time for More Focus on Protecting Incomes and Living Standards?
By Denis Bright The onset of COVID-19 involves a change in political direction from my old town of Ipswich and every other locality across the […]
Turnbull: Just the man to tell all (part 1)
My association with the man Malcolm Turnbull began in 1999. It was the year that Australia attempted to become a republic. I was an area […]
Scotty’s shirtfronting sophistry
The hypocrisy of ScottyFromMarketing’s hairy-chested approach to an investigation into the origins of COVID-19 and China’s response was highlighted this week when Border Force Tsar […]
Life out of Balance
I recall 1982 as a confluence of firsts. As I began my thirty first year, life seemed as an endless sequence of possibilities, rolling toward […]
Caring for the carers and others in distress
Watching the Four Corners program (ABC 04/05/20), I was struck by the extent of the potential mental and physical health damage that will have been […]
Greed isn’t good
By 2353NM It seems Australia’s success so far in reducing the impacts of COVID-19 has a lot to do with the co-ordinated efforts of the […]
We cannot afford to flout the grave risk posed by climate change and a government who wants to “do us slowly”
According to the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources, who, for some reason, have taken over from the Department of Agriculture, Water and the […]
Is Morrison’s Pink-Batts Moment Coming?
Will the federal JobKeeper Allowance become Scott Morrison’s pink-batts/school-halls’ experience? It’s starting to look that way, even at this early stage. Just to recap, when […]
Somewhere over the rainbow – on the other side
Point in case once again, about the redundancy of this COVIDSafe app. Your mobile phone data is shared through Bluetooth with someone you have co-located […]