STEPHEN Hawking’s publisher told him that every equation in The Brief History of Time would cost him 10,000 readers. This column would be lucky to muster that many readers, so I will refrain from putting in an equation, and use words instead. The equation is Hull’s Equation for Removing Tax Brackets. Continue reading “Remove tax brackets with sliding scale”
Month: August 2015
Australia: stuck with no courage or vision
IN 1993, sociologist Hugh Mackay concluded that Australians were anxious about too much change. His 1993 book Reinventing Australia concluded that Australians were frazzled by too much change, especially economic change which had debased job security with casualisation and contracting out. Continue reading “Australia: stuck with no courage or vision”
Gay marriage: captain picks an unnecessary path
THE tyranny of the minority was on display this week. A little over half of the Coalition has all but bound all their MPs to vote against a private members’ bill to allow same-sex marriage. Continue reading “Gay marriage: captain picks an unnecessary path”
Doomed to partisan Speaker
THE Constitution and the relatively small size of the Australian House of Representatives probably condemn us to often having a partisan Speaker. Continue reading “Doomed to partisan Speaker”
Central America — no place for scepticism
THE next conference of the Climate Change Sceptics Association should be held on the Yucatan Peninsula, in Mexico, where my wife and I have been this the past week. Continue reading “Central America — no place for scepticism”