Business/Robbery etc
Beware of lawyers making recommendations about regulating the business community; they will inevitably lead to more business – for lawyers.…
Business/Robbery etc
Is it a bridge too far leading to the destruction of the profit-based entrepreneurial capitalism that has brought us our…
Business/Robbery etc
Whatever the outcome of Saturday’s green-tainted global-warming-fixated Wentworth by-election, it won’t knock King Coal off his economy-boosting throne. And there…
Business/Robbery etc
You won’t find it in the headlines about the Hayne Royal Commission’s 1,000-page interim report that slammed the greed, ‘profit…
Business/Robbery etc
As disasters go, 9/11 is now much less of a problem for the world than 9/15. There are no widespread…
Toasting Brexit
When Yes, Prime Minister’s Sir Humphrey explained in 1986 to his PM that the determination of the British Foreign Office…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s the customary corporate cop-out. Big business these days is more risk-averse than entrepreneurial. So the business lobby groups have…
Business/Robbery etc
Continuing Hayne Royal Commission revelations of institutional dishonesty by Australia’s big four banks have not only killed off Malcolm Turnbull’s…
Business/Robbery etc
Pigs might fly – but they will not be Australian porkers (or beef or lamb) flying into the European Union…
Letter from Munich
As a permanent reminder of the fragility of democracy when put under the combined pressure of economic crisis and populist…
Letter from Russia
The Football World Cup was a winner for Russia; tourists like me flooded in (to cheer a reasonably performed Australian…
Letter from London
If the crescendo of cranes towering above development blocks represents a city’s prosperity, then Manila and London are prospering. Setting…
Letter from Penge
Australia is now unwittingly linked even more closely with the dreary outer-London suburb of Penge. Not only was it the…
Business/Robbery etc
Australia’s current corporate leaders, the ‘managerial class’, are slowly destroying the capitalism that has made us such a great and…
Business/Robbery etc
Having politically sabotaged the government’s tax reform package (and endangering its own prospective corporate tax cuts) the big end of…
Business/Robbery etc
So what’s new? Twenty years ago, Westpac’s then boss, Bob Joss proclaimed: ‘Banks face shutting down entire divisions of business…
Business/Robbery etc
Whacko! American farmers have now joined the Australian economy in being seriously at risk of collateral damage from ‘friendly fire’…
Business/Robbery etc
Collateral damage – and it’s not only from the (unlikely) risk of a world-wide protectionist tariff war. ‘Friendly (economic) fire’…
Business/Robbery etc
Bed-wetters are on the move; the federal parliamentary Liberal party’s problem is now a liquid liability in Collins and O’Connell…
Business/Robbery etc
The Turnbull government’s survival depends on a far more serious internal battle than whether Barnaby should keep his fly done…
Business/Robbery etc
Small businesses and individuals income-earners beware! Now that Tax Commissioner Chris Jordan’s successful five-year multi-billion dollar campaign against tax dodging…
Business/Robbery etc
Now that Sam Dastyari is at last about to give up his $200,000 a year Senate salary for Kristina Keneally’s…
Business/Robbery etc
It’s not President Trump’s corporate tax cuts, or even the retailer-busting arrival of Amazon to these shores that poses the…
Business/Robbery etc
Forcing the deferral of the government’s vital superannuation industry reforms by terrorising cross-bench Senators with electoral political threats only serves…
Fame of Hall
Anne Watson’s book underlines the truth that in order to praise Jørn Utzon, whose architectural vision created the concept of…
