Whatever the outcome of Bill Shorten’s surprise move this week, he has caught Tony Abbott on the hop and executed one very successful wedge. Nice one, Bill.… Read more “That’s One for Bill”

Joe Hockey is sitting on a knife edge, just like our economy. His 2015-16 fiscal statement (the budget) is predicated on the expectation that the Australian business… Read more “Why the budget will fail”

Spending five weeks on the North American continent recently, four of them in the USA, was a great way to experience first-hand views and opinions on a… Read more “Reflections on Trans-Pacific Nut Cases”

When Leigh Sales asked Bill Shorten on Thursday night how he was going to pay for the promises he made in his budget reply speech, Bill dodged… Read more “The Mystery of Money or how I learned to stop worrying about debt and deficits.”

Watching Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey the other night on television sitting together in one of their offices pretending to look over their latest brainchild, the 2015… Read more “Hapless Hockey’s Hyperbole”

What is Anzac Day to Australians and New Zealanders? As an Australian, I was taught to see it as a day of honouring the fallen, of remembrance… Read more “A Massive Over-Reaction”

A week or so out from Joe Hockey’s second attempt at bringing down a national budget, what are we hearing? Not much. It will be dull and… Read more “Abbott and Hockey Running Scared”