NEW Year – New Aspirations. Rather than going over the trials and tribulations of last year, I prefer to look ahead with renewed vigour in order to see what our society can do better, in order to make improvements to our way of life. The area that offends me greatly, and needs to be corrected […]
MY FINAL article for the year is not about regrets for opportunities missed during the past year, it is more about what our society has started but won’t finish. Often governments prefer to sweep it all under the carpet and start new projects in the hope that voters will simply forget what needs to be […]
INTERESTING information has just been released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showing that more Australians are now living from their superannuation investments than those receiving a pension from the government. This is a really productive situation. Some of the praise must go to ex-Prime Minister Paul Keating, who introduced incentives to have Australian […]
OCCASIONALLY something happens which reminds you of the anti-gambling punchline “sometimes you win but mostly you lose”. Sadly, this has applied to my most recent overseas trip. The holiday was really great but getting home proved a much more difficult task. It has been many years since I last arrived in Australia via Brisbane then […]
HAVING spent over 40 years in the financial investment industry, you became aware of cycles caused by human reactions. People operate the same way in every generation and most people understand, often too late, that the sins of the fathers are usually repeated by the sons in the following years. It doesn’t need to be […]
WITH the expectation of good news for regional and rural residents, I thought that I would look more deeply into the possible resurrection of REX Airlines. The federal government has been propping up the airline in order to ensure regional and remote communities remain serviced by viable aviation options. Their main action was to buy […]
BACK in February this year I wrote about our disappearing airlines, particularly the ones that serve regional and rural areas. The big boys are only interested in the high-volume capital city traffic which means that the lesser populated but important regional areas are at real risk of losing air services to the capital cities. My […]
HE is doing one of the hardest jobs in the world, but claims he refuses to accept any payment from the government for his services. Of course we are discussing US President Donald Trump. Donating your presidential pay may be great for the ego of a very wealthy person, however politicians not getting paid was […]
ONE of the more famous political statements of our lifetime – “It’s the economy, stupid” – was delivered by political strategist James Carville, who was working on Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 Presidential Election campaign. The catchphrase meant that the key concern of US voters in the election was the state of the economy. I think […]
GOVERNMENTS here and overseas are extolling the virtues of owning and operating electric vehicles (EVs), but a strong pushback is coming from rural and regional proponents who are against this idea. I am reminded of the saying that “none are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm”. This seems to be part of the […]
