The Twelve Apostles: public asset, or government revenue stream?
The Victorian government has announced that visitors will soon have to pay an entry fee to see the Twelve Apostles…
The ESG trap
While Australians have been distracted by the Voice to Parliament, nuclear submarines, and the Budget, ASIC recently followed through on…
Labor’s housing plan: the monster is in the detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…
No campaign to arm ourselves against the government?*
The luvvies on Twitter are going wild because the government is unveiling a vaccination campaign that has a military officer…
A harsh lesson for our university chiefs
Education Minister Alan Tudge gave a speech at the annual Universities Australia conference yesterday. Here is how the AFR education editor described what…
Auntie’s fudge
I saw this on Twitter. It led me to a Guardian piece: ABC demands rightwing thinktank correct ‘misleading’ claims on public…
Victory? We’ve been outmanoeuvred by Facebook and Google
The federal parliament has passed the so-called ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’. Despite the name, and the…
Australia versus Google
The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running…
The self-interested inconsistencies of the RMIT-ABC Fact Check unit
Two years ago the opposition was pushing a the-government-has-cut-funding line for aged care. It was a lie, of course, and,…
Is that tax policy or slapstick comedy?
The relationship between taxpayers and government should be symbiotic – to the mutual benefit of each party. This is certainly…
High tax: the pillar of what civilisation?
“Progressive” think tank Per Capita recently released the results of their annual tax survey. It turns out that 51.5 per…
