The Sydney COVID Disaster And Olympic Dramas
Political games are never far away when it comes to COVID-19 management in Australia and, of course, it’s across the political divide: the Liberal Party of NSW and the federal government on one side, ...
23 Jul 202141min
Ignoring COVID Lessons From The Past And Who Is The Real Prime Minister?
Australia has become lockdown central, with its two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, going into two different types of lockdowns – Sydney has a modified version where shops are still open and peo...
16 Jul 202141min
Spinning In The Face Of A Crisis And The Modern Liberal Party
The Sydney lockdown continues into its third week and the Gladys Berejiklian show moves into the full public relations mode and spin cycle to get itself out of political trouble. It’s almost as though...
9 Jul 202144min
The Lockdown Schadenfreude in NSW And A Two Jobs Failure: Vaccination and Quarantine
The NSW Government’s ‘gold standard’ in COVID management has soured into a more tarnished puce colour, with Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s reluctance to shut down Sydney a week earlier, resulting in a m...
2 Jul 202145min
Pfizer Phuck-Up, Failure Of The G7 Meeting, Locking Up Journalists
Australia could have been close to reaching herd immunity but a poor Australian government decision to turn its back on an excellent Pfizer deal means the national level of vaccination is at 3%, one o...
23 Jun 202144min
Quarantine Fiasco Continues, Media Clampdown, The Beast Of The NSW Labor Right
Victoria will complete a two-week lockdown soon but if the Morrison government had done its job properly on quarantine management and the vaccination rollout, the lockdown – which will cost around $2 ...
9 Jun 202153min
The Budget Mirage And The Debts And Deficits Ruse
It’s Budget time and we've spent the last week analysing the third Budget announcement from Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Our verdict? Don’t believe the hype: it's not a ‘big-spending’ Budget; and it’s n...
19 Mai 202141min
Climate Change Action, Do We Need Religion In Politics, Vaccination Envy
The world is slowly moving towards climate change solutions and, once again, Australia is the laggard on the world stage but trying to tell everyone how well it's performing, even though no other worl...
27 Apr 202155min
