EVERY television and radio news broadcast in Australia – commercial and public – has the same misguided priority. They all put sport before the weather. Continue reading “Weathering the media sport storm”
Month: July 2013
End of car industry a benefit of tax change
THE unannounced, but perhaps the best, part of Prime Minister Kevin’s Rudd’s change to the carbon tax is that it will very likely put the Australian car industry out of its misery. 
That would also put Australian taxpayers out of a lot of misery – $19 billion worth of misery to be more precise. Continue reading “End of car industry a benefit of tax change”
Another futile attack on red tape
THE Instruction Manual for the British Civil Service (which is used extensively by its Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and even US counterparts) has quite a few instructions in several chapters on what to do when an incoming government proposes to “cut through the red tape”. I was reminded of the chapters this week when Opposition Leader Tony Abbott announced he was going to set up a “Deregulation Unit” within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Continue reading “Another futile attack on red tape”
Qld murder laid bare & credit card usury
NO DOUBT that before white settlement, the indigenous people of Australia lived in, what Thomas Hobbes called, a state of nature in which life was “nasty, brutish and short”. 
And to some extent life is more nasty, brutish and short for indigenous Australians than it is for the rest, but perhaps better than what it was in the state of nature. Continue reading “Qld murder laid bare & credit card usury”