DO you ever get the feeling that something isn’t right and that you are being politically processed into believing spin, instead of fact? Whilst the Prime Minister believes in creating as few shocks as possible, his Treasurer, who eventually wants to succeed him, appears hell-bent on achieving change in order to cement his eventual move […]
I’M starting to see many similarities between the economic realities of the USA and those of Australia. Principally in the rising debt levels and the fact that the country’s leaders are just realising that something needs to be done about it before their populations realise the size of the predicament. President Trump, who is no […]
NOW that the Federal Government’s three day “Productivity Summit” is over, many of us are still trying to work out what it was all about. The three areas that the conveners required to be discussed were productivity, economic growth and tax reform. The current housing supply dominated most of one day’s debates but from what […]
SOME experts, when commenting on our housing shortage, place the blame on high levels of immigration creating greater demand than supply. Australia’s long-term net migration average is about 250,000 a year. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, net overseas migration was 446,000 in 2023-24, down from 536,000 a year earlier. The largest group of […]
THERE are times when I feel sorry for the decisions that governments see the need to make, especially when those endeavors fail. Twice previously I have written articles in relation to the Government financially backing the highly optimistic opportunities to ensure our ability to deliver new and more efficient green power technology. They decided to […]
YOU can only try your best, however when it involves government you might be better off not getting involved. In this instance, I reflect on my article published in November 2023 titled “A continuing mystery”, which discussed the MH 370 mystery. Yes, I held a private pilot’s license and yes I was a somewhat inexperienced […]
AS USUAL, it’s all about the weather, but some interesting and disturbing side effects are becoming known following research being done overseas. For years we have received health warnings about the fact that really hot weather can create unfortunate circumstances, especially for older people. With our community now focusing on global warming and its health […]
LAST week I listed the nations with the largest debt loads, measured as a percentage of borrowings in relation to a country’s GDP. It has worried me for some time that there doesn’t appear to be the political will for short term governments to reduce the long-term debt of their nation. It seems they prefer […]
THE fourth of July is America’s national day annually. The nation’s President, Donald Trump, demanded that legislation containing most of his vision to “Make America Great Again” needed to be put into law by that date this year. He broadly achieved that due to his personal control over the Republican Party, over which he seems […]
I WAS recently reminded that “by the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he is often too old to go anywhere”. As you get older, three things happen. First is that your memory goes, but I can’t remember the other two. So, I thought that it must be time to look […]
