The Stock Market … better it never existed
Are we witnessing the end of the surge on Wall St? Or is, what we witnessed this week, no more than a minor correction? The […]
Articles by John Kelly
Time is running out, Malcolm
Malcolm Turnbull just doesn’t get it. Or, perhaps he does, and he is hoping against the odds that the situation will improve by the time […]
A Politician’s Guide to telling the truth about taxation
Following an interview with an unusually frank and forthright politician, a journalist was struggling to absorb the reality that taxes don’t fund government spending. He […]
A Politician’s guide to the question, “How are you going to pay for it?”
If there’s one question a politician fears being asked, it is this one. After announcing a decision to undertake a bold new and expensive development […]
House of Cards
A quite lengthy article published back in November last year by Matt Barrie and Craig Tindale on Medium.com entitled, “Australia’s economy is a House of […]
Why an Election in 2018 is more than likely
Notwithstanding the issue of foreign citizenship facing both the Liberal and Labor parties, which could trigger an election in 2018, there is another more pressing […]
How MYEFO masks Deception and Ignorance
Scott Morrison’s MYEFO released today and his speech outlining his government’s “achievements” leaves one breathless for its ignorance, its deception and his own arrogance. Morrison’s […]
Hats off to Queensland
On Saturday night, we witnessed another spectacular crash by One Nation Party in the Queensland state election, following their less than inspiring performance in the […]
Time for the G-G to step in.
Yesterday we heard Greens Senator, Richard Di Natale say the magic words…that he was prepared to ask the Governor General to dissolve the parliament and […]
We need an election now!
With the citizenship saga continuing to unfold in a manner that is exhibiting all the elements of a soap opera, i.e. farcical and treacherous, the […]
Why can’t the nation own the NBN?
The NBN rollout has now been exposed for the debacle that it is. The ABC’s Four Corners program on Monday night saw to that. It […]
It’s taxpayers’ money… er no, it’s not!
When we hear that a politician has abused his/her expense entitlements, or that federal cabinet has decided to carry out a postal survey costing $120 […]
It’s not your call, Mark
If the Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, Mark Coleridge thought he was going to make a definitive statement in the same sex marriage debate, he will […]
It’s all happening again
In case you haven’t noticed, the US is about to start another war. Remember George W. Bush and the lead up to the US invasion […]
Memo to Morrison: Inequality is on the rise
Back in July, Treasurer Scott Morrison dismissed suggestions that inequality was getting worse. “The latest census showed on the global measure of inequality, which is […]