A LOT of the NBN issue has probably gone right over the heads of most voters in the past week. The timing of the AFP raids on two Labor Party locations last week was perfect for the Coalition. The simple popular view is that if you are raided by the Australian Federal Police you must have done something wrong. Continue reading “If only the NBN were the Snowy Mountains Scheme”
Month: May 2016
Immigration, not just refugees, cost, Mr Dutton
IMMIGRATION Minister Peter Dutton at least has highlighted one point: it costs a lot to bring people to Australia. He restricted his remarks to refugees, but there is a cost in bringing family-reunion and economic migrants to Australia as well. The difference, though, is that we have a moral duty to help with the world’s refugee problem, but we do not have any moral duty to take economic migrants who just like the idea of living and working in Australia. Continue reading “Immigration, not just refugees, cost, Mr Dutton”
They are nutters, not climate sceptics
WE MUST stop calling them “climate sceptics” and start calling them “climate nutters”. I was thinking this while listening to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority’s Dr Roger Beedon – a real scientist – address a public meeting in Port Douglas this week on coral bleaching. Continue reading “They are nutters, not climate sceptics”
Senate election to be a major v minor event
WHENEVER the Parliament looks at electoral matters you will find ideology and principle frequently trumped by the formation of temporary alliances of convenient self-interest. Continue reading “Senate election to be a major v minor event”