THE people of the ACT are being duped by the Territory and Federal Governments over the Majura Parkway. The case is another example of a poor thinking in Australia’s transport system. [click to continue…]
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MORE evidence is in that there is no such thing as a “rusted-on” Labor vote in Australia. In the 1990s chunks of the formerly supposed rusted-on blue-collar Labor vote fell away when Pauline Hanson and John Howard applied the WD40. Xenophobes and “battlers” deserted the Labor Party. [click to continue…]
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PRIME Minister Michael Rimmer, in The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, overcame one of the main objections to consulting the masses on political questions – cost – by installing in every home a Yes and No button above the television set. [click to continue…]
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SO OFTEN when some injustice or unfairness arises, the aggrieved parties imagine the High Court and the Constitution will step in to save them. Most recently it was by Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest the head of the mining company Fortescue Metals. [click to continue…]
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CORPORATE managers in Australia should now get out their risk lists and add a new heading: a media blitz. In just a few days, a media blitz following one Four Corners program has put in jeopardy a $320 million-a-year industry – the live cattle trade with Indonesia. [click to continue…]
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NEW taxes, like the carbon tax, naturally alarm people. In the mid-1690s, for example, the revenue in England was being depleted by, among other things, people clipping coinage. A mooted income tax was decried as an impossible invasion of privacy. Instead a window tax was introduced in 1696. You paid tax if you had more than 10 windows. [click to continue…]
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SUB-EDITORS edit the news; they are not themselves the news. At least until recent days. [click to continue…]
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SUNDAY used to be the key media-manipulation day. Now it’s Friday. [click to continue…]
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(An occasional series of articles written before www, now scanned. This one from 14 November 1990.)
THE Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem celebrated its 182nd anniversary last Sunday. It was formed in 1808 after the First Baptist Church refused entrance to black Americans. [click to continue…]
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WHEN Robert Menzies was Prime Minister he could take himself off to England for weeks at a time to watch the cricket. He was Prime Minister for 16 years and party leader for longer. [click to continue…]
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