It’s Election Christmas!!!! Enjoy it while you can…
Election Christmas comes but once every three years. And this year, thanks to some naughty little Senate Elves who wouldn’t do what Santa Turnbull wanted, […]
Politics
Australia’s Economic Growth Index hits a record low
Amidst the noise of politicians talking about their plans for economic growth this week, the announcement that Australia’s Leading Economic Index has hit an all time […]
Breaking news . . . NOT!!
Yesterday, several papers and the 7:30 Report revealed shocking allegations of corporate corruption made to a Senate Committee. Sam Dastayari was “gobsmacked”. Leighton’s had engaged […]
Day to Day Politics: On the eve of the last election.
Saturday 23 April 2016 -72 Author’s note: On the eve of the last election I was forced to confront the reality that the party I […]
Fifteen things that are more important than slogans about innovation
With the barrage of announcements, pork barrelling, and white noise that we endure during an election campaign it is easy be distracted from the big […]
200 million reasons you should not vote for Malcolm Turnbull
Our Prime Minister may have as much as 200 million dollars stashed away in an overseas tax haven. He admits to being worth at least […]
The LNP’s latest strategy: Make it Somebody Else’s Problem
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison were out in force today, continuing to ridicule Labor’s plan for a Royal Commission into the Banking […]
What Malcolm said
Malcolm Turnbull once spoke of a trust deficit. Is it any wonder when he changes his mind so often? This is a selection of his […]
The LNP: Keep your voters close. Keep your Big Donors closer.
As the campaign for a Australia’s Federal election on July 2nd kicked off in earnest this week, we’ve been hearing two key messages from the LNP: Message […]
Scott Morrison, like Moody’s, doesn’t have a Clue
This week, Moody’s ratings agency warned that Australia’s AAA credit rating was at risk. The report said without measures to raise revenue “limited spending cuts […]
Not the full quid
Barnaby Joyce is always saying something remarkable for its inanity, and the last couple of days he’s done nothing to cause me to reassess my […]
Investment bankers and venture capitalists
What do PM Malcolm Turnbull, Premier Mike Baird, and NZ’s PM John Key have in common? They were all investment bankers – for Goldman Sachs, […]
‘Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did’.
In Queensland the political class is currently planning to double down on Richard Nixon’s ‘war on drugs’. The Queensland State Parliament has decided to change […]
Why we need a Royal Commission into Banks
Section 912A of the Corporations Act states that a financial services licensee, such as a bank, must “do all things necessary to ensure that the […]
The Emperor fiddles while Rome burns
We are currently experiencing a massive natural catastrophe such as Australia has never before experienced. The Northern reaches of the Great Barrier Reef are dying. […]