Welcome to the new health system autocracy
Under the guise of the ‘precautionary principle’, Australia’s health system has overnight transformed from a bureaucracy into an autocracy. This is no surprise…
This is no time for ‘gotcha!’ journalism
The lockdown has ensured that many millions now gather round the TV and watch the daily press conference from No.10.…
ScoMo’s gone as crazy as Kev, but we can still save the economy
When the Prime Minister and Treasurer appointed Stephen Kennedy as the Treasury Secretary, they opted for a bureaucrat who had…
Shut up there, Cazaly
They don’t know what they will do, when they will go back to work or how their families will survive…
The Ruby Princess fiasco: our leaders’ latest great failure not only over coronavirus, but China as a whole
Our political leaders have significantly failed to protect Australians from the Wuhan virus. On the principle enunciated by President Truman…
Dem AGs demand abortion drugs be delivered to doorsteps
We must be the first generation of Americans to respond to a mass plague by ensuring we can keep killing…
ScoMo has built an economic time bomb. It detonates in six months
Since it became clear to the Morrison government that the coronavirus outbreak could lead to a potential depression for Australia,…
Spain and Italy have been abandoned by the EU
If ever there was a time for the EU to show the benefit of belonging to an economic bloc with…
Will the Democrats junk Joe?
Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee. Yet many Democrats have ‘buyers’ remorse’ as the COVID virus has driven Biden…
Islamists are frustrating Pakistan’s fight against coronavirus
The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Pakistan currently sits at 2,042 alongside 26 deaths. With only limited healthcare facilities, the country…
Bernie Sanders is down but not out
Mathematically speaking, Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is as dead as disco. After a streak of victories in big, delegate-rich states…
No, you can’t judge a book by its colour
One of the tell-tale signs of the onset of Coronavirus Cabin Fever is that you start noticing the home office…
Palaszczuk’s pork for public servants: sleaze supreme, even by Queensland standards
My sister is an economist for the Ontario government in Canada. She’s a public servant. Until last year the pay…
Among all this oddness, we’ve been given the gift of time. Let’s not waste it
I’m beginning to wonder: when I stagger back out into the sunlight in six months, blinking blearily against the glare, my beard-hair…
History flips as walls rise in the West
On one frosty Autumn’s night in 1989, thousands of communist evacuees swelled over a fallen Berlin Wall to the embrace…
The heartbreaking decisions doctors are preparing to face
In recent days, I have had more than enough upsetting conversations with doctors to last a lifetime. About how they…
Frightened people love their leaders
‘The Trump presidency is over’, said Peter Wehner, in the Atlantic. The great wizards of liberal punditry stroked their beards…
Did the people of Tokyo ever really want the Olympics anyway?
One of the first things you need to learn abut Japan is the concept of honne and tatemae. ‘Hone’ refers…
Yes, we need experts. But let’s not politicise expertise
For some people, it isn’t enough that we have locked down our daily lives. They want us to lock down…
A story stranger than any coronavirus conspiracy…
Never mind a boring terrestrial virus – what would happen to our planet if aliens from another planet ever make…
EXCLUSIVE: Why is the RACV putting asylum seekers ahead of its pensioner members?
Every state has its own motoring organisation and roadside assistance service. New South Wales has the NRMA, Queensland the RACQ,…
We need strength to survive, not a shutdown of our economy
Australia needs strength to survive the coronavirus, but many policies designed to manage the spread may be counterproductively weakening our…
Forget coronavirus. Think of the bright future we can build learning from the lessons
Finally, as the curve begins to flatten, the global panicdemodium (new word) dies down and media get bored with ringing…
Italy as the model? That a brave call, even for the(ir) ABC
The health situation in Italy is dire. Tragically, over 11,000 people have died in excess of 100,000 people have caught…
Bursting the Cuomo bubble
Andrew Cuomo is having a moment. He enjoys ubiquitous coverage. His press conferences attract viewership second only to the president’s.…
