Ron Pike

Walking the walk: what happened to the good old days?

18 December 2023 12:20 am

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

16 November 2023 1:49 am

Faced with an approaching election and constant media hype regarding the plight of our rivers during the Millennium drought, John…

Hear my voice

27 June 2023 5:00 am

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

9 June 2023 5:00 am

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?

30 April 2023 6:00 am

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

5 March 2023 4:00 am

As our inexperienced (but trying hard) Prime Minister and his vainglorious Treasurer attempt to right the budget ship and stop…

Perpetrating bureaucratic insolence

15 February 2023 5:00 am

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

1 January 2023 4:32 pm

As I consider the future and look forward to the year 2023, I have resolved to make the following solemn…

My Christmas wish

25 December 2022 8:00 am

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?

4 December 2022 8:00 am

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

10 October 2022 3:17 pm

As I look across the Australian landscape, a landscape I love and have appreciated since my youth, this Old Bushy…

Parliament for the plebs

22 September 2022 11:00 am

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?

7 September 2022 12:37 pm

From Prime Minister Albanese – and so many of his cohorts – to media muppets loitering at every point of…

Dispelling myths about water

1 September 2022 10:00 am

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

29 August 2022 8:00 am

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

11 August 2022 8:00 am

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

16 July 2022 4:00 am

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

8 July 2022 4:00 am

It was the astute Ronald Reagan who gave us the quote: ‘Government does not solve problems; it subsidises them.’ I…

Activism is destroying 'truth'

22 June 2022 11:00 am

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?

9 June 2022 11:00 am

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

25 May 2022 1:15 pm

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

20 May 2022 1:00 pm

With only one sleep until polling day, I am firmly convinced that neither the Liberals nor Labor should be allowed…

TweedleScomo and TweedleAlbo

14 May 2022 6:00 am

As we watch our present Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, and the man who seeks to replace him, Anthony Albanese, crisscross…

The roar of waste

7 April 2022 4:00 am

Watching the Burdekin Falls Dam with around six metres of water going over the spillway following recent rain in the…

Those damned dams

31 March 2022 4:00 am

While it was very pleasing to this old water conservation enthusiast to hear PM Morrison announce a 5.4 billion funding…