The very definition of harmful advice is found in the Treasury’s five yearly Intergenerational Report, the latest edition of which was handed down on Monday. In...
Excuse me? Excuse me? What did Queensland’s poobah of public health (and governor to be) Jeannette Young say today? Really say. There’s her headline remarks —...
We need to ask: Is WorkSafe Victoria grossly incompetent or is something else going on? Yesterday, June 29, 2021 was the deadline for Victorian WorkSafe to...
Prime Minister Scott Morrison, supported by state premiers and territory chief ministers, is set to make the coronavirus vaccination mandatory for aged care workers. This is...
Here’s an old writers trick that doesn’t involve moving to Tunisia and becoming a dope fiend. If you don’t want to say what you really think about someone...
A regular series of rules for life by Pete Shmigel, a former senior state and federal political advisor and CEO of Lifeline Australia. This “Tough Love”...
Australia’s current WuFlu situation is not dire in world terms, yet from the reactions of federal, state and territory governments, you’d be forgiven for thinking the...
Here we go again. Let us sip once again, dear fellow citizens, from the bottomless well of public policy insanity to institute self-harming non-solutions to a...
Humanity is only ever one blackout away from the caves. The more advanced and complicated a civilisation, the easier it is to destroy. Far from heeding...
#GladysClusterFukup was trending on Twitter yesterday. That was no surprise. Like most of Twitter, it was driven by malice. But there is a “fukup” — a...