A return to good manners
By 2353NM The ABC’s Virginia Trioli writes a ‘weekend read’ which is emailed out most Saturday mornings. A few weeks ago, there was the story about a […]
Politics
Stumbling Surveillance: The end of the COVIDSafe App
It took a few years of tolerable incompetence, caused fears about security, and was meant to be the great surveillance salvation to reassure us all. […]
Whatever it takes
By 2353NM Some years ago, a plumber was telling me when they came back from the local pie shop with lunch to that day’s worksite, […]
By the People and for the People: a Fairer Tax System and Stronger Economy
By Max Ogden and John Lord One of Australia’s most vexing questions is a more equitable taxation system. At the 2019 election, the ALP presented […]
The Fuss about Monkeypox
The World Health Organization has been one of the easier bodies to abuse. For parochial types, populist moaners and critics of international institutions, the WHO […]
The Voice to Parliament: Why the ‘Detail’ Argument is Bunk
Speaking at a festival recently, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese proposed a referendum to create an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Specifically, the proposal is […]
Question Time, a referendum, boats, more corruption and other matters
1 The first Question Time of the 47th Parliament this time last week was revealing for several reasons. Firstly, it demonstrated the enormous gap in […]
The Real Opposition
Just as the government is trying to find its feet at times, the opposition Coalition is also in the same boat. The recent claims of […]
Inflation! Or is somebody having a lend of us?
I’m no economist but neither am I a fool. When somebody tells me that inflation has taken off in Australia and that the cause is […]
Some Avoidance Clouds Over Delivery of the Treasurer’s Economic Statement and the October Budget
By Denis Bright Australians are still waiting for a real response from the Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor to Jim Chalmers’s economic statement. Angus Taylor’s media […]
Morrison has gutted the LNP
Even typing those words has an unreal feeling. Will he come back? Will his poisonous personality rear up out of the darkness? Will he make […]
The Australian Government’s war against ugly truths
By Steve Davies Why it matters: During the 2022 elections the Labor Party promised to create a National Integrity Commission and reform public sector whistle […]
New Parliament promising but Team Dutton disappoints
On the opening of the forty-seventh parliament with thirty-five new members, a nineteen gun salute and one cool, new diverse, vibe, 26 July, a decimated […]
Avoiding the lunatic fringe
By 2353NM The Australian political system is far from perfect. We have made an art form out of humiliation and ill treatment of refugees that […]
Scott Morrison awaits the Apocalypse
The minds of defeated prime ministers are rarely pretty. In some cases, they are damnably awful places, where ruins accumulate and dust gathers in wretchedness. […]