THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING TO KNOW A NEW NEIGHBOUR
INITRODUCTION. This month’s article is the second in the series on ‘lessons to be learnt from the Wallaces Gap Solar Farm initiative’. It focuses on how the prospective developer (EDPR…
IMMIGRATION – A NOXIOUS MIX OF FEARS, PREJUDICES AND INCONSISTENCIES
Cartoon courtesy of Cathy Wilcox IMMIGRATION – A NOXIOUS MIX OF FEARS, PREJUDICES AND INCONSISTENCIES (everything old is new again and again and again) Let’s start by acknowledging that immigration…
WE’RE ALRIGHT JACK
the bruising of the ‘fair go’ ethic in the rush for renewables) PREFACE In January 2026 Land and Environment Commissioner (Ms S O’Neill) rejected objections to a solar farm (Wallaroo,…
THE CLOWNS ARE ABOUT TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY
THE CLOWNS ARE ABOUT TO TAKE OVER THE COUNTRY (the end of parliamentary democracy as we’ve known it)<br> (Image: AAP) A decade ago (in the days when Morrison was PM) these…
TRUMP – THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FAILURE IN A LONG LIST OF AMERICAN PRESIDENTS
BEFORE READING Please Note: It is hard to keep up with this unhinged President. This piece was written on the first week of the Iranian war. Events since only confirm…
BYE, BYE, AMERICAN PIE
POTUS ‘Bye, bye Australia – sorry. I’m off, I have bigger fish to fry (Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine, UN, Greenland …) Nostalgia is a great comforter. We hope the US will…
THE PROPAGANDA WARS: CONFLATING CRITICISM OF ISRAEL WITH ANTISEMITISM
Since Bondi our political class and media have descended into mawkish competition to prove their condemnation of antisemitism and their determination to stamp it out. That’s a commendable and necessary…
A SCARY NEW YEAR FOR ALL AUSTRALIANS
Happy New Year, hopefully. The first piece (of two) this month argues the West is continuing to futz around while Trump continues his destructive rampage both inside and outside America.…