According to our politicians and poohbahs of public health, Australians will all be subject to some form of house arrest…

It used to be an intergenerational compact, an unwritten commandment, that we will give to our children better than we…

There has been much written and spoken about the Morrison Government’s legislated “tax cuts” and Labor’s decision to not oppose…

I appear to have hurt the feelings of a very powerful union. About three weeks ago, I wrote a piece…

The cowardice of our political overlords has a price, and usually that price is not paid by these decision-makers but…

It’s not obvious who sets health care policy in Australia and it’s not obvious for whose benefit it even is.…

William Jennings Bryan? Never heard of him? Take a look at Wikipedia:  William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 – July…

On Monday, I wrote in these august pages about the lack of economic reform in Australia being a function of both poor quality…

Former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld once quipped: “You go to war with the army you have, not the army…

In March of this year, I wrote in this august publication:  For the economic benefit of the nation, let’s end this…

If I may plagiarise Anthony Albanese — who plagiarised Michael Douglas in The American President — “In Australia, we have…

Pop culture obsessives will never forget the famous episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show where the queen of America gave…

At the start of the seventies, Kim Beazley Senior told an ALP conference “When I joined the Labor Party, it…

On Tuesday I wrote here, I wrote about the values vacuity of Prime Minister Morrison and his Government.  Then, yesterday,…

There are some who get it and there are many who don’t.  Sadly, our elected class are significantly over-represented by…

Hubris. A noun meaning overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance. From the Ancient Greek describing a personality quality of extreme or…

I live in Sydney. My house flooded last week in the heavy rains. We’ll see what happens today. Where is Tim…

As an Australian citizen, I would like to wish Mathias Cormann all the best at the OECD. I can only…

There is an old and proven saying: Personnel is Policy. You hire the person best suited to implement your strategies…

For those of you who have woken to the news this morning that the Commonwealth Government has announced a special tourism…

Earlier this month, former Treasurer Peter Costello stated the bleeding obvious when he warned “ultra-low interest rates risk creating the…

His name is now officially out. The Christian Porter allegation is, like other recent tales from Canberra, a very sad…

Given the content of this and prior pieces, it is fair to assume that I am a largish consumer of…

There’s no inflation.  The experts tell us so.  The Clerics of Martin Place, our highly paid monetary gurus at the Reserve Bank, have declared that…