Australia’s road toll isn’t coming down even as speed and mobile detection cameras generate increasing amounts of revenue. What should be obvious to politicians and police around Australia is that cameras are NOT a replacement for “patrol cars on the…
On September 12, a range of US organisations, including the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia, wrote to the US Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent. In the now required fashion, they first expressed their, “appreciation for President Trump’s steadfast commitment to…
There have been millions of words written about Trump, and I will just add my own personal views to the pile. Trump appears to believe in the blunt application of power and leverage in negotiations, and moreover the view that…
There have been media comments that the UK and Australia would be early in the queue for tariff deals with the US – presumably on the basis that we are either the US’s closest allies or easy targets … it’s…
We have gone rapidly from a period of “US Exceptionalism”, their words not ours, to one where a US recession appears imminent – based on the actions of one man, economic gibberish and the inability or unwillingness of the US…
Having stunned the world with perhaps the most illiterate economic speech of the century – understanding that he has still got nearly 4 years to go and enough time to do even worse – Trump announced a range of International…
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…
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,…
