Crispin Hull / Who was at the top of the University League Tables for Cheating? The Business School.
“As the University of Sydney and University of NSW wring their hands and bewail a massive documented doubling of cheating in the past couple of years we should not be surprised….”
Weekend Event Guide | Friday 4 November-Sunday 6 November 2022
Your definitive guide to events in and around the Douglas Shire for a ghoulish Halloween weekend!
New $2 million home for Far Northern firefighters providing good jobs and better services
The new $2 million Mossman Fire and Rescue Station was officially opened today.
Crispin Hull / This Budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers was the Juvenal of Australian politics – deploring bread and circuses.
❝In a way, Chalmers and Gallagher have reversed budgetary thinking. With apologies to John F Kennedy, they are asking how the wealthy can contribute more to their country not asking how the country can provide less for the not so well-off…❞
Weekend Event Guide | Friday 28 October-Sunday 30 October 2022
Your definitive guide to events in and around the Douglas Shire for a ghoulish Halloween weekend!
Crispin Hull / It is not about promises, but performance
❝To improve government performance you need more revenue which means a fairer, more efficient tax system….Resources, carbon emissions, and consumption should be taxed more. The concessions should be revised on superannuation, negative gearing, capital gains, dividend imputation and fossil fuels. Property taxes should move to annual land taxes to replace stamp duty and transport tax should move from fuel and registration to road use (when, where and how far you travel). Payroll tax should be axed, replaced by higher taxes elsewhere…❞
Crispin Hull / Support and Aspirations for the Voice
❝The recent comments by Nationals frontbencher Barnaby Joyce likening the Voice proposal to a law enacted in Nazi Germany show what a difficult task it will be to get the Voice referendum passed.❞
Weekend Event Guide | Friday 21 October-Sunday 23 October 2022
Your definitive guide to weekend events in and around the Douglas Shire.
Crispin Hull / The Australian Way of War
❝We keep blundering into wars where we have no business against people who pose no threat, based bombast and lies: the Boer War, World War I, Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.❞
Weekend Event Guide | Friday 14 October-Sunday 16 October 2022
Your definitive guide to weekend events in and around the Douglas Shire.