Crash and Burn
This is both optimistic and troubling. Fairfax media reports that “China has put the world’s oil cartel into a death spiral“. On the one hand […]
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The Precedent Set
With the acquittal this week (Tuesday 7 April 2020) of Cardinal George Pell, many words will be written, both in published media and in social […]
You will catch it
You are going to catch it. Not everyone who reads this article will contract COVID-19, the novel coronavirus originating in Hubei province, China. On the […]
Rorts sports
The “sports rorts” saga that has lately claimed the privileged position of Bridget McKenzie has consumed many newspaper front pages and exercised many peoples’ outrage […]
Doing it for ourselves
I’ve previously written about conservative politics being unconvinced about the very purpose of government. It is becoming clearer, through repeated example, that the Australian people […]
Enemy of the good
For many years I have been furious with the Greens for their sabotage of Labor’s ETS in 2009. Perhaps the policy was flawed. Certainly it […]
Just a (new normal) drought
Recently there has been a lot of commentary about the Big Dry. From news.com.au to the 7:30 report to your nearest Facebook page and a dozen […]
Coalition MPs push for legislation to ban opposition to change to race-hate laws
Yesterday in Parliament several government MPs, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, decried Labor’s opposition to proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) as a […]
Will This Kill Americans?
Politics used to be hard. You had to balance the needs and desires of a wide range of stakeholders with competing interests. You needed to […]
The Emperor’s New Truth
So there’s been another boat. Never mind that Peter Dutton, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison have been insisting for years that “the boats have stopped”, […]
Dystopian Reality – a Climate Change Future
A Climate Change Future Predicting the future is a no-win scenario. There are so many variables that virtually anything is possible. Futurism inevitably becomes a […]
What do our politicians do?
What, exactly, do our politicians do? Today, Monday 18 April 2016, the Turnbull government took the almost unprecedented step of recalling all of Parliament for […]
We have failed.
There is no need to spend more than a very few words on this post. For the first time in recorded history, probably the first […]
Why we need Donald Trump, President of the United States
Over the past eight years, Australians have joined the rest of the world in being entertained and amused by the absurdities of American politics. Some […]
Still being lied to
So it seems that Bill Shorten will be taking a proposal for a 50% renewable target by 2030 to Labor’s national conference in Melbourne this […]