Category: Opinion

CRISPIN HULL The fragility of Australian democracy has been illustrated again in the past week with further exposure of unsatisfactory political funding rules and the…

A selection of this week’s most thought-provoking comments. We encourage you to share your views, and to have your say! In Response to “NEW DOUGLAS…

CRISPIN HULL Every year the opposition to 26 January as Australia Day grows as the knowledge and understanding of ever more Australians grows. It exemplifies…

CRISPIN HULL reveals how the use of average speed cameras is a more effective road safety strategy than spending billions on road upgrades. He targets National MP resistance to the strategy, particularly in NSW and at a Federal level.
Crispin considers that a responsibility lies at the Federal level, zeroing in on the shameless politicking of Acting Prime Minister and Nationals Leader Michael McCormack….

Do non-government corporations like Twitter have the right to publish or not publish whatever they want? What does Twitter’s banning of Trump’s account teach us about censorship and freedom of speech? Why does acting Prime Minister’s Michael McCormack refuse to acknowledge the Capitol attack as an act of sedition? And why has Morrison failed to call out some of his recent MP’s blatant falsehoods?

If you needed any proof that blokes and the blokes that run big corporations rule our lives to our detriment, look no further than the Covid cricket fiasco.
he MCG is now listed as a potential COVID-19 acquisition site after a man who attended Day Two of the Boxing Day Test later tested positive to coronavirus. It will be impossible to track down all his contacts.

It should have come as no surprise this week that Australia’s billionaires collectively added more than 50% to their wealth in 2020 – the year of the pandemic. That is what extreme wealth, and most extremely wealthy people, do when unchecked. They take advantage of things, especially adverse conditions.

Breaking quarantine, social-distancing or mask-wearing laws are crimes in a class on their own.

It’s no secret that cane is struggling and that land is going out of production into hobby farms or cattle grazing. For a variety of reasons, there are few options for crop diversification for agricultural land that could be implemented, or switched to, quickly at scale. But with each additional loss of cane production, overall viability becomes more threatened.

Friday is the 100th anniversary of the Royal Assent to the UK Parliament’s Government of Ireland Act which partitioned the island of Ireland to provide two Parliaments, the Parliament of Southern Ireland and the Parliament of Northern Ireland.