Category: Featured Story

The baby boomers “have cajoled and electorally frightened governments into polices that benefit them – from free university; cheap land; and subsidised mortgages in the 1970s; to superannuation concessions in the 1990s; investment concessions thereafter; and all the while generous senior’s cards giving car rego, utilities and rates concessions to the well-heeled….”

Crispin Hull takes a look at the reasons behind the steady rise of consumer abusiveness…

Crispin Hull shares today’s opinion piece on the proposal to take electricity from Snowy Hydro 2.0 via good old fashioned overhead power lines….”Overhead power lines are ugly, dangerous and costly. Yet here we go again….”

Crispin Hull shares today’s opinion piece on the recent High Court decision on the Victorian imposition of electric vehicle tax….

More than 250 dodgy Shitbox Rally cars departed from Port Douglas yesterday, inland bound for Adelaide in what promises to be seven days of adventure and laughter in the spirit of raising funds for cancer research.

This weekend, local breast cancer support group Pink in The Tropics held their annual fundraising breakfast at the Palmer Sea Reef Clubhouse. Enjoy a gallery of the event.

In today’s Opinion piece, Crispin Hull criticises corporations for prioritising shareholder value at the expense of consumers, citing instances of unfair practices like changing terms without notice and imposing high late payment fees. He advocates for a stronger regulatory body, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), to address individual complaints and enforce tougher regulations, higher fines, and the breakup of monopolies. This, he argues, would hold corporations accountable for their actions and curb their exploitative practices…

” I and many other Yes voters thought, very naively, that Australians were better than that: that we would not fall for the sort of misinformation and conspiracy theories that delivered the tragic Brexit and Trump results in Britain and the US. Silly me.”

Browse our gallery of Saturday’s NicNak Fashion parade, a joyful afternoon of fun, fashion, great laughs and wonderful community spirit!

“The war in Ukraine is doing an immense amount of good on the deterrence front. Ukrainian determination and technological genius have created an asymmetrical war machine that upturns the myth that numbers and overall economic strength will always win the day.”