The ESG trap
While Australians have been distracted by the Voice to Parliament, nuclear submarines, and the Budget, ASIC recently followed through on…
Labor’s housing plan: the monster is in the detail
In 2010, the then Rudd government introduced a 40 per cent tax on mining companies. The tax took the form…
No campaign to arm ourselves against the government?*
The luvvies on Twitter are going wild because the government is unveiling a vaccination campaign that has a military officer…
A harsh lesson for our university chiefs
Education Minister Alan Tudge gave a speech at the annual Universities Australia conference yesterday. Here is how the AFR education editor described what…
Auntie’s fudge
I saw this on Twitter. It led me to a Guardian piece: ABC demands rightwing thinktank correct ‘misleading’ claims on public…
Victory? We’ve been outmanoeuvred by Facebook and Google
The federal parliament has passed the so-called ‘News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code’. Despite the name, and the…
Australia versus Google
The out-going Trump administration finally woke up to a nasty little rort that the Australian government was planning on running…
The self-interested inconsistencies of the RMIT-ABC Fact Check unit
Two years ago the opposition was pushing a the-government-has-cut-funding line for aged care. It was a lie, of course, and,…
Is that tax policy or slapstick comedy?
The relationship between taxpayers and government should be symbiotic – to the mutual benefit of each party. This is certainly…
High tax: the pillar of what civilisation?
“Progressive” think tank Per Capita recently released the results of their annual tax survey. It turns out that 51.5 per…
