Why we should close down Canberra
The go-to quote for the illiberal intelligentsia to justify their suppression of speech comes from US Supreme Court Justice Oliver…
Ita Buttrose: Emma Alberici, eat your heart out
In case you managed to miss Ita Buttrose’s stirring speech in defence of her well-remunerated job, sorry, the ABC, here’s…
Those small-l liberals and their ABC
In his recent appearance on Insiders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vehemently declared that: The Guardian is an avowedly, small-l liberal,…
The compulsory super scam: why get in to bed with the devil if you only want to cuddle?
Reported in the Oz: Scott Morrison will delay a decision on whether to ditch next year’s scheduled rise in the…
There’s no public service recession, new figures find
How much is enough? How much should our children and grandchildren be forced to pay for the cowardice of our…
Who needs the Australia Card when you can do a Xi Jinping?
My. How soon people forget. In 1985, at the national tax summit, the Labor Government proposed the Australia Card: The…
Malcolm and Kevin, don’t you have homes to go to? Several homes?
At a time of record levels of government spending and intrusion, it is perhaps timely to consider the words of…
Why President Sleepy Joe will keep Australia up at night
It’s not yet certain, but it is looking likely that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United…
Judgement time
When does an error in judgement cost someone their job? It depends. If it is Gladys Berejiklian, you are safe. If…
Coronavirus tipped us into recession – a recession made inevitable by two decades of policy failures
There is a natural desire for people to compare this current 2020-21 economic recession to earlier ones, with the most obvious…
Our ruling Kakistocracy
Studies have shown that cognitive diversity can improve the effectiveness of thinking and quality of decision making in groups. This is in part…
Superannuation reform requires more than putting lipstick on a pig
H.L. Mencken once wrote that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. But when…
Another supercilious superannuation superimposition
Here’s a little nugget that the superannuation ticket clippers won’t tell you. Early Covid related superannuation withdrawals come with a…
The National Black Hole Network
Perhaps thinking he was helping to promote the financial strength of the NBN, Tony Boyd noted in the Australian Financial…
The superannuation skimmers
When it comes to sneaky and deceptive ways to separate citizens from their money, there is no better system than…
Meditations on Pyong-Dan
Maybe it is time to rename the Murray River. Would not a more apt name be the Yalu River? After…
A pyromaniac in a field of straw men
In 1936, in the preface to the German version of his General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, John Maynard…
The other virus
The barbarians are not at the gate. The barbarians are manning the gate. And they decide who gets in and who stays in. …
Masterchef Canberra
If you are in the souffle business and you keep delivering broken crackers, no amount of increase in ingredients and…
