If Employers Can Measure Well-Being
By 2353NM Last September, you might have seen Qantas CEO Alan Joyce receive a pay increase of $278,000 per annum. It seems that Joyce has […]
Politics
Our media is failing us
Our media is failing us. At a moment when one side of politics has abandoned the bases of democracy as an impediment to their grasp […]
China-Australia Relations and a Leader for the times
That Prime Minister Albanese had just 30 minutes following a 3-hour meeting between the USA and China to talk with the Chinese leader President Xi […]
Republicans Revive #Forcethevote
Background: Slim Majorities and Factional Power One of the more interesting aspects of the recent midterm elections has come from the race for control of […]
Coming back to haunt you
In his recent Budget reply speech, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton laboured (pun intended) on the increasingly difficult to achieve promise by Prime Minister Albanese that […]
What’s in a Name ?
Well may we ask what’s in a name and if you put that question to our ABC you will get all sorts of responses but […]
Covid Hindsight: Victoria acted on nightmare potential for system collapse
The press has been spattered in recent weeks with hindsight wisdom about Australia’s – and particularly Victoria’s – handling of the pre-vaccine pandemic. The relatively […]
The good economic units
By 2353NM Wellbeing and politics have collided in the past couple of weeks. Federal Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers has started a conversation about measuring the […]
Vote for Newscorp !
I don’t live in Victoria and I don’t vote in Victoria but from a distance it appears to me that the two main contestants in […]
Zombie Policy Apocalypse Part 2: Cruel Britannia
Continued from Part 1 From Cruel Britannia, Land of Grope and Tory – a scandal-ridden post Brexit economic basket-case, The Sick Man of Europe, or […]
There’s always something to write about
The political writer’s life was much easier when the previous government was in power – almost a scandal or some form of corruption every day. […]
Do you want to smile or frown?
By 2353NM Recently, in what could be described as an epic fail in recruiting practices, the Essendon Football Club hired and accepted the resignation of […]
Conspiracy: the disease that threatens our survival
Sometimes it takes a war correspondent to cast light on what is happening at home. The New Yorker’s Luke Mogelson has just published The Storm […]
Raising interest rates as a strategy to deal with inflation is problematic at best
By John Haly In July, Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced an independent review of the Reserve Bank of Australia, and in September, the Bank Review panel […]
I see dud people
Australians all lettuce rejoice They may have dropped the constant, asinine, look-at-moi dress-ups of the moronic galoot but they’ve not abandoned the concept entirely. It’s […]