IN THE midst of the ongoing battle with COVID-19, government continues to allow holders of Australian passports to return. Some bring the virus with them into quarantine, leaving many Australians shaking their heads.
STATE politicians have continued their hysterical response to Coronavirus – instead of easing their approach as the germ became better understood. Rather than “flatten the curve” and “protect the vulnerable”, as was their initial intent, elected officials have instead acquiesced as public sector bureaucrats flattened the economy and protected their own careers.
WHY do politicians so often make decisions based not on judgement but on computer modelling? This is notwithstanding the telling observation attributed to the great Anglo-American statistician, Professor George EP Box, “All models are wrong, but some are useful.” It’s like all those pundits and commentators who were sure that based on faulty polls, Bill Shorten would win the last Federal election.
AN ATTEMPT to unite Australians behind a more “inclusive” national anthem appears to have backfired, with long-running community divisions spilling onto social media. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced during his News Year’s Day address that the second line of the national song would now read “we are one and free” in place of “young and free”.
A NSW MP who last year threatened to topple the Berejiklian government over its support for late term abortions has again raised concerns over its treatment of unborn children. In a Christmas Eve email, Member for Mulgoa Tanya Davies said the NSW government hadn’t honoured its commitment to recognise unborn babies who had died as a result of crime.
IF BOOK sales measure opinion, then Labor’s Kevin Rudd would count as the single most unpopular prime minister in Australian history. Despite a landslide election victory in 2007, coupled with record high opinion polls for his first 18 months in office, the 26th prime minister’s memoirs have flatlined.
THE architect of Labor’s 2019 election climate policy has warned that medium-term emissions targets are unnecessary, contradicting the ALP’s dominant Green wing. Australian National University economics professor Warwick McKibbin said while medium targets were not required, costs controls most definitely were.
AUSTRALIA has been warned it can no longer hide behind its powerful allies and must become independently capable if it’s to deal with Chinese aggression.Federal Senator and former Australian Army Major General Jim Molan said Australia needed to change its mindset and contribute “healthily” to its own defence.
FORMER Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon has labelled climate politics “dishonest” and “delusional”, saying Australian voters were being lied to.
In a broadside speech given to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday, Mr Fitzgibbon said Labor had no business setting medium-term emissions targets.
OUR SAS have been appallingly treated.Why has the government, with the high command, effectively declared war on Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, including those who died?
