Not many Australians will know that Papua New Guinea (PNG) is the single largest recipient of Australian foreign aid – with something like $637 million in direct aid scheduled for 2024-25. I would like to argue that PNG should in…
Just to state the obvious, Meta is a “closed garden” and being a Facebook etc., member is the price of entry – as is a disregard for your own privacy, but that is entirely an individual choice. For reasons of…
There isn’t a single, major public policy sector in Australia that would not benefit from substantial review and reform, including taxation, superannuation, income distribution, migration policy, aged care and competition policy, but what has happened over the last decade –…
I keep having to turn off Sky News on my Google news(?) feed as it absolutely drivel. Most of the items are right wing Youtube opinion pieces which apparently have a much greater market in the US than Australia …surprise,…
As mentioned earlier, there was always little or no prospect that Trump would carve out an exception to steel and aluminium imports from Australia. In any event the economic impact is marginal and I dislike the prospect of being in…
I have just suffered through a dose of Australian early morning television and six consecutive advertisements by charities. The “industry”, and I use that word intentionally, seems to have adopted the approach that “any dollar is a good dollar”, even…
It seems that every generation has the same refrain, “I’ve never seen worse driving”. Within the last fortnight I have seen two cars turn left at a red light, all number of cars routinely proceed through reddish/orange and red lights…
It’s clear that going cap in hand to Trump, asking for tariff exemptions, doesn’t usually play well. Australia is one of the very few countries with which the US has a positive trade balance, and that’s just on goods –…
Just picked up the weekend papers and was browsing through the lifestyle and leisure sections that all papers now have. Looking to get some good hints on what airlines to use, places to visit, products to use? Well, you won’t…
Apparently, the US has told us that we need to massively lift our defence spending. I think that’s right, purely from a security perspective, but also because the US shows every sign of becoming/being unhinged. Therefore, let’s increase defence spending,…
