WHO throws vapers under the bus… again
With the constant deluge of pandemic-related coverage, it’s easy to forget that tobacco smoking continues to kill over 8 million…
Illegal tobacco syndicates are a problem Australia and Asia doesn’t need
Recently, the joint Australia-ASEAN Taskforce on Illicit Tobacco seized over 19 million illegal cigarettes bound for our Indo-Pacific region. The…
World No Tobacco Day exposes Big Public Health’s failure
Today marks “World No Tobacco Day”, a World Health Organization initiative to draw attention to the dangers of tobacco, what governments…
A “fairer and healthier world” needs a better public health agency than the WHO
As Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in the world, killing hundreds of thousands in India while triggering fears about another lockdown in Perth,…
The World Health Organisation must clean up its act
As virulent new Covid-19 strains continue to ravage the world, a draft copy of a joint WHO-China report now concludes that the pandemic…
Why celebrate a tyranny?
Seventy years ago, the authoritarian dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party was established. The “Great Leap Forward” which followed in…
The rustbelt Libs belt their own
Business and investors are up in arms about the Liberal South Australian government’s land tax reforms. Scott Salisbury, Managing Director…
The death of ScoMo’s cash ban is welcome
Government legislation that would have outlawed cash payments for goods and services exceeding $10,000 AUD to or between businesses has…
Like cheap, clean energy? You’ll love nuclear
There is no greater act of economic or environmental vandalism in Australian history than our nonsensical prohibition on nuclear power.…
How to reindustrialise Australia
This week we heard that that Australian steel producer BlueScope will invest $1 billion in an Ohio-based American steel plant, citing…
Why an end to compulsory super would be a win-win for workers
As the debate on hiking compulsory super contributions continues, it’s well worth revisiting Liberal NSW Senator Andrew Bragg’s suggestion to…
The High Court’s high-stakes ruling threatens liberty
Conservatives and left-wingers alike should oppose today’s High Court decision which found that the Australian Public Service, specifically the Department…
Another smokescreen for failure on smoking rates
Australian authorities attempting to curb the tobacco smuggling trade, have imposed an ill-advised and little publicised ban on all tobacco…
Time to tackle the bullies or risk freedom of speech
While American conservatives can rejoice after President Trump announced an executive order to withdraw funding from public universities if they don’t uphold…
The EU’s anti-science laws hit here
Prime Minister Scott Morrison recently announced that he’d be passing up the United Nations’ Migration pact on the basis that a global…
Government marketing a big buck bungle
Another week goes by and we again see state and federal governments squandering our money on embarrassing and harebrained ventures,…
WTO plain pack verdict a victory for criminals and nanny
Five years have passed since a coalition of tobacco-producing nations including Indonesia and Honduras challenged Australia’s world-first laws that prevent…
Turnbull’s online shopping tax drives Amazon USA out of Australia
The Turnbull government’s online shopping tax which applies a 10 per cent GST price spike to imports worth less than…
Ditch the politics and make taxes fair
The big day is here – the last pre-election federal budget – and the Coalition government has promised something we’ve…
A sugar tax is another attack on freedom and personal responsibility
Won’t somebody please think of the adults? If there’s one thing we know well in our great southern continent, it’s…
Time to put kids first and politics second
On Wednesday, Sunrise featured a segment that included two guests and a presenter advocating for the ban on the adoption…
How government destroyed cheap electricity in Australia
You know something is wrong when a country with over 33 per cent of the world’s Uranium and abundant reserves…
Your $720 ticket to Sydney’s superfluous stadiums
The NSW Cabinet’s decision to demolish and replace the functioning Sydney Olympic Stadium and Sydney Football Stadium with two new…
The great plain packaging swindle
Newly released government data has confirmed that more people smoke in Australia than they did in 2013. This is despite…
Happy holidays with the Byron Bay bed tax
While much of the nation confronts an incessant meth problem, our major political parties struggle with a different kind of…
