THE LONG queues of Esky-clutching ice-desperate people outside the very few service-stations with power in the wake of Category 5 Cyclone Marcia should have delivered a pertinent message. Instead, so much of it was disaster-as-usual coverage. Stoicism, good neighbourliness, miraculous escapes; raging torrents; fallen trees; mud in houses; boats floating in main streets and so on. Continue reading “Disaster as usual in the face of the eye of the storm”
Month: February 2015
Of roads, railways and water money
ONE OF of the most significant broken promises of the Abbott Government has had little attention. But this week things started hotting up. Continue reading “Of roads, railways and water money”
Coalition’s Micawber-like economics is out of date.
PRIME Minister Tony Abbott says that economic management is in the Coalition’s DNA. That may be true if you view economic management as merely being on the right side of Micawber’s equation. Continue reading “Coalition’s Micawber-like economics is out of date.”
‘Strong’ leadership lacks followership
IN A week when the navel gazing in the Liberal Party over leadership has now descended into lint picking, maybe we should have a closer look, not at leadership, but at followership. Continue reading “‘Strong’ leadership lacks followership”