From pioneers to puppets
When the first Europeans arrived to settle in Australia, it mattered not whether they were administrators, convicts, army officers, or…
Walking the walk: what happened to the good old days?
As an ‘Old Bushy’ who has a patriotic and passionate love of our country, its environment, its history, and the…
Murray-Darling Basin plan: foolish and unnecessary
Faced with an approaching election and constant media hype regarding the plight of our rivers during the Millennium drought, John…
Hear my voice
As the third-generation progeny of settlers who came to Australia and settled on the then-dry plains of the Riverina from…
We have done it before, let’s do it again
I have previously argued that the Australian economy is headed down a ‘steep hill to the creek of insolvency’. Something…
Government: the problem or the answer?
I have long believed that growth, prosperity, progress, and ultimately personal fulfillment are not created by government or any group…
Productivity is never an accident
As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…
Perpetrating bureaucratic insolence
As I have watched, with a mixture of dismay and disgust, the public events coming to a head on Australia…
Australia’s New Year resolutions
As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…
My Christmas wish
To my fellow Australians… During this Christmas festival may you be enveloped with the love of family and friends. May…
Could we benefit from a new National Anthem?
Following a nationwide competition run by the Australian Council of the Arts to find a National Anthem to replace God Save…
Australia: a ship without a sail
As I look across the Australian landscape, a landscape I love and have appreciated since my youth, this Old Bushy…
Parliament for the plebs
A letter from the governing class, to the people: We, the governing class, would like sit down and have an…
Can you hear me yet?
From Prime Minister Albanese – and so many of his cohorts – to media muppets loitering at every point of…
Dispelling myths about water
The myths about water are many. They range from Australia being the driest continent on earth, to all of our…
Questions for the cult of climate hypocrisy
In my recent article When truth is flummoxed by sophistry, hopefully I rationally and successfully established that not only is Climate…
When truth is flummoxed by sophistry
Having watched the inexperienced Albanese government go from fighting a real pandemic threat in Covert to now apparently totally absorbed…
Freedom: the peak of achievement
As we watch with varying degrees of disgust, impotence, and annoyance at the events in Eastern Europe – where a…
Listen to Reagan: governments don’t solve problems
It was the astute Ronald Reagan who gave us the quote: ‘Government does not solve problems; it subsidises them.’ I…
Activism is destroying ‘truth’
Maybe it was personal reasoning, but much more likely it came from the guidance of a very wise father… As…
Where are the visionary politicians?
As I watch my Australia transition from a Liberal government that only managed around 36 per cent of the primary…
Liberal-Turnbull tryst ends in tears
As scribes and commentators across the country sit down to write their thoughts on the political events of Saturday past,…
We need passion in our politics
With only one sleep until polling day, I am firmly convinced that neither the Liberals nor Labor should be allowed…
TweedleScomo and TweedleAlbo
As we watch our present Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and the man who seeks to replace him, Anthony Albanese, crisscross…
The roar of waste
Watching the Burdekin Falls Dam with around six metres of water going over the spillway following recent rain in the…
