by JOHN MIKKELSEN – EVERYONE is probably fed up to their eye teeth with cyclone talk after ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred stopped pirouetting and finally took a final bow. After exiting stage left – and leaving a trail of damage in its wake…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE RBA’s decision to cut interest rates by 0.25 per cent this week should have come as no surprise in the current political climate. With an election looming, the Albanese Labor Government is desperate to claw back some…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE speed at which Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese’s green dominoes are falling is truly breathtaking. When Queen front man Freddie Mercury belted out the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust back in 1980, he would never…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FAMOUS line from an old Australian film was my first thought when I heard Labor’s latest renewable energy pipe dream – a $2b subsidy for “green aluminium”. “Tell him he’s dreaming” was uttered by Darryl Kerrigan’s main…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – FARMERS are not the only ones wondering if our national weather forecaster, the Bureau of Meteorology, will get it right this year. With Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, it’s a…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FEW short years ago, Australia was known as The Lucky Country; now in the eyes of the developed world, we are rapidly becoming the dumb country. Much of that is down to the fact that our Federal…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – BOB Hawke once infamously referred to a senior citizen as a “silly old bugger” before he inevitably became one. But it seems bureaucrats and some private enterprise operators want to make life ever more complicated for this significant…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – CHANCES are Australia could be facing another disastrous bushfire season like the one we experienced five years ago, which from a personal perspective came too close to home. I wrote about the night, November 8, 2019, when we…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FORMER Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser once said life wasn’t meant to be easy, but his plagiarised quote left out part of the original message. Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw added the more optimistic: “but take courage,…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – BELEAGUERED Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto might have survived a potential leadership spill this week over his mishandling of the Moira Deeming expulsion controversy, but that’s not the end of the story. The fact he was unchallenged says…
