Albo to repeat UK attack on self-employed
As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese winged his way back to Australia after the Queen’s funeral, he would have been wise…
Tony Burke’s gig ‘cancer’
In recently calling gig work a ‘cancer’, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke has made it pretty clear what’s in store…
The self-employed should be wary of Albo
September is ‘cuddle’ month for unions, employers, and the Albanese government. The soirée for the 100-or-so ‘stakeholders’, also known as…
We must rescue the good bit of the ABCC
It’s pretty easy to understand the politics behind the Albanese government’s shutting down the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC).…
Unfair contracts
Get ready for a profound disruption to some core big business operations in Australia. The Albanese government has committed to…
Morrison’s ‘pitch and miss’ to small business
Last week Morrison made his pitch for the small business vote. It fell dead flat. That’s strange really. If you…
Albo plots against Australia’s self-employed
There’s one seemingly small ‘bit’ in Labor’s election policy that should scare the hell out of Australia’s two million-or-so self-employed…
Thugs or no thugs…? Albo seeks to close ABCC
Amidst Anthony Albanese’s confusing election promises, there’s one commitment that stands out. An Albanese Labor government will close down the Australian Building and…
Steering clear of the WorkChoices-IR trap
Calls by ‘big end of towners’ for industrial relations reforms amount to little more than kicking election campaign goals for the union…
All the wrong reasons for a federal integrity commission
Criticism of the Morrison government for not introducing a national anti-corruption Commission is not about Morrison refusing to have a…
The ‘unfair’ Australian contract
The idea of an ‘unfair’ contract can be seen as an affront to those who believe that any contract freely…
Is WorkSafe doing its job?
The effort to prosecute the Victorian government – including the Premier and his ministers, over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine disaster…
Who runs Australia – elected politicians or shadowy bureaucrats?
Who runs Australia? Is it the politically accountable politicians elected through the democratic process? Or is it the unidentified, unelected,…
Covid ‘rebels’ and the Eureka Stockade
There’s a band of people who see themselves as the ‘keepers’ of the Eureka Stockade tradition, and they are much…
How we hope to hold people responsible for the hotel quarantine disaster: people, not just bureaucracies
In late September this year efforts bore fruit to require WorkSafe Victoria to prosecute government agencies and individuals over the…
We now have a bipartisan blueprint to make the tax office fairer. Over to you, Josh
The key Parliamentary Committee overseeing the Australian Taxation Office last week released a report calling for major reforms to the way the…
Daniel Andrews, all-powerful Zeus?
When justifying the most recent hard Victorian lockdown that started on August 6, 2021, Premier Dan Andrews told the enquiring media pack…
What do Mercedes’ moves mean for the future of motoring
Why would the giant German auto manufacturer Daimler Benz purposefully set out to trash its own brand? There must be something startling happening…
What triggered Melbourne’s union protests – from on the ground
What actually triggered the mass civil disobedience by construction workers last week in Melbourne? The following is a record of…
The rule of law is cracking in Victoria – and so is the Labor establishment
Victoria, but perhaps more specifically Melbourne, is in serious trouble. Law and order is not just breaking down, it’s already cracked. When a supporter of…
Unfair contracts bill a boon for small business
With all the focus on Covid, it’s good to see that major reform efforts are still underway. Last week the…
Have WorkSafe Victoria breached their statutory obligations over the hotel quarantine disaster?
It’s been eight weeks since the Victorian WorkSafe Authority failed to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions its investigation…
Governments, get real. Eliminating Covid from the community with fines is fantasy
The unacceptable violence at Melbourne’s ‘freedom’ rally, the quieter Sydney and Adelaide rallies and the New South Wales/Queensland border ‘invasion’…
Qantas move makes mandatory job jabs clarity yet more urgent
Today, Qantas has become our largest corporate so far to announce it will make Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory for all staff.…
The hotel quarantine disaster WorkSafe action latest: the rule of law in Victoria is on public trial
There has been a concerning development with the process to prosecute the Victorian Government over the 2020 Hotel Quarantine breaches that…
