Covid-19 and the real problem with experts
The problem is not listening to experts. The problem is having experts who pay no price for their advice being…
Daniel Andrews: 40-love
Hmmm. What can be said? Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews in July 2020: Bored is better than intensive care. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews…
Finally, something to keep Malcolm and Krazy Kev off the streets
Is there a better reason to export Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd? They can go and consult to the US…
Canberra’s modern monetary theory dreamers are lost wandering their wonderland
There are certain human inventions that the world would probably be much better without. Things like nuclear and biological weapons…
The two left wings
May I recommend the brilliant writing and analysis of Kevin Williamson in the National Review? He recently authored this nugget titled Joe…
WA’s Mark McGowan lets the COVID cat out of the bag
Fresh from the Oz: Western Australian premier Mark McGowan has called on NSW to fall in line with the other…
Albo Labor is so bad it’s even dragging down the government
There are two writers whose analysis I try to almost always read – Aaron Patrick in the Fin and Troy…
Not so useful idiots?
In the battle of ideas, idiots are seldom useful. Look to Vladimir Lenin, who is reported to have coined the term…
Meet the skinless chickens (AKA our university vice-chancellors)
Australia came to a fork in the road. The private sector went one way. The public sector the other, singing…
Government by the people but not for the people
I’m no doubt in a minority, but I believe that the American governing model, with a Montesquieu-ian separation of powers…
#WeGoBrokeWithDan
Guess which state or territory has the worst credit rating? Before answering, let me explain what a credit rating is.…
You can’t reduce debt by taking on more debt
Pop. That is the sound of the pin of reality piercing the inflated balloon of Australian economic wishful thinking. Fresh…
Why we should close down Canberra
The go-to quote for the illiberal intelligentsia to justify their suppression of speech comes from US Supreme Court Justice Oliver…
Ita Buttrose: Emma Alberici, eat your heart out
In case you managed to miss Ita Buttrose’s stirring speech in defence of her well-remunerated job, sorry, the ABC, here’s…
Those small-l liberals and their ABC
In his recent appearance on Insiders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull vehemently declared that: The Guardian is an avowedly, small-l liberal,…
The compulsory super scam: why get in to bed with the devil if you only want to cuddle?
Reported in the Oz: Scott Morrison will delay a decision on whether to ditch next year’s scheduled rise in the…
There’s no public service recession, new figures find
How much is enough? How much should our children and grandchildren be forced to pay for the cowardice of our…
Who needs the Australia Card when you can do a Xi Jinping?
My. How soon people forget. In 1985, at the national tax summit, the Labor Government proposed the Australia Card: The…
Malcolm and Kevin, don’t you have homes to go to? Several homes?
At a time of record levels of government spending and intrusion, it is perhaps timely to consider the words of…
Why President Sleepy Joe will keep Australia up at night
It’s not yet certain, but it is looking likely that Joe Biden will be the next President of the United…
Judgement time
When does an error in judgement cost someone their job? It depends. If it is Gladys Berejiklian, you are safe. If…
Coronavirus tipped us into recession – a recession made inevitable by two decades of policy failures
There is a natural desire for people to compare this current 2020-21 economic recession to earlier ones, with the most obvious…
Our ruling Kakistocracy
Studies have shown that cognitive diversity can improve the effectiveness of thinking and quality of decision making in groups. This is in part…
Superannuation reform requires more than putting lipstick on a pig
H.L. Mencken once wrote that “for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong”. But when…
Another supercilious superannuation superimposition
Here’s a little nugget that the superannuation ticket clippers won’t tell you. Early Covid related superannuation withdrawals come with a…
