Sorry, No Vacancy
By John Haly “There is enough work in Australia for nobody to be on unemployment benefits except for those medically incapable.” (Quote from Twitter!) This […]
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Too much Interest, as Size Matters
By John Haly The burden of supplying job vacancies falls on the government and business sectors. Instead, the government and media typically blame the unemployed, […]
The Voice of the Coalition
By Dr. Martha Knox-Haly and John Haly The failure of the Coalition’s Voice to Parliament has been an unusual congruence of events. No doubt some […]
Universal Basic Income: How to do it right
By John Haly The threat of Artificial Intelligence effectively doing jobs has raised fears that tomorrow’s world will be increasingly jobless. There are competing proposals […]
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 […]
Stagnating Summit’s Shortfalls
By John Haly Labor is seeking to have business and unions cooperate in spurring wages forward. This is despite decades of companies benefitting from increased […]
Partying in 2022
By John Haly “Climate change takes centre stage in Australia’s election” was proclaimed in 2019, but then the party of Climate scepticism took the stage. […]
Josh’s Jobless Jargon
By John Haly Josh Frydenberg is spruiking the coalition’s accomplishments claiming, “Our Govt’s economic plan to create more jobs is working”. However, his statistics based on […]
Morrison’s feminine appeal – none at all
By John Haly From THAT women’s network logo to a corseted perspective where he can only understand women through the lens of his wife or daughters; Scotty […]
Climate change has created two very typical states of environmental disasters in the Australian landscape
By John Haly Was Banjo Paterson’s 1889 poem “Clancy, of the Overflow”, acknowledging a country of flooding plains? In not, Dorothea Mackellar’s “Sunburnt country” was […]
Vacant claimants
By John Haly Predictably the crises of climate change and the pandemic highlighted deficits in health services, markets, welfare and education. Both have accelerated a […]
Dear Gladys
By John Haly Dear Gladys, Our relationship has curdled, and I am concerned about your mixed messages. Despite maintaining it was finished between us (the […]
Why alternative truths?
By John Haly Much is made of the 21st century being a post-truth world. Many identified it when presidential spokesperson Kellyanne Conway defended White House […]
Frydenberg’s maths problem
By John Haly The media on both ends of the political spectrum promote Australia’s Liberal Party as the party of economic management. Pandemics and recession […]
Dob in a bludger
By John Haly Morrison announcement of “permanently increasing the rate of working-age payments by $50 a fortnight from 1 April 2021” received a lacklustre response. The Australian reporting about the lead-up to […]