Tag: Crispin Hull

“…but hung Parliaments are now going to be the new normal. There are several factors, the most important being the declining primary vote of the major parties..”

“… the decision was arrived at in secrecy and announced with all the finesse of a Queensland copper plodding around a Versailles diplomatic ball.”

The move by Australia to ditch the French-designed diesel-electric submarines in favour of nuclear-powered ones is an unspoken admission of eight years of bungling.

Three years were lost dithering about trying to decide what was the best way to go in in replacing the Collins Class submarines. Then in 2016 the Turnbull Government made the wrong decision.

Or more correctly, three related wrong decisions. The first was not to use nuclear propulsion. That led to the second decision which was to build from the ground up. And the third mad decision was to build the submarines in Australia.

Now five years has gone as we go back to drawing boards.

“The chaplains are not qualified to give advice to children who are suffering psychological trauma. The Bible is not a textbook on adolescent psychology. Indeed, unqualified chaplains are more likely to do harm than good…
The chaplaincy program pays utterly unqualified people to spout mumbo jumbo to children – it is a form of child abuse…”

Over the next few months, we will watch the Government juggle public-health policy, information massaging, and election timing in its attempt to keep power.

“Now this conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet, we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources, and livelihood are all involved. So is the very structure of our society.”

Squllionaire Warren Buffett, who has a social conscience and who is embarrassed at how little tax he has to pay, proposed a tax in the US, and President Barack Obama flirted with it for a while, but did not impose it.

But Australian Labor could implement it after the election as The Millionaires Tax – the tax where millionaires would have to pay the same level of tax as the tradies.

It would sail through the Senate as the right-wing populists (Lambie and Hanson et al) could not object. Neither could the Greens….

A morally bankrupt, supine, irrational sell-out was committed by the Australian Labor Party last week when it said it would acquiesce with the third, and…

If Prime Minister Scott Morrison had a buck-related sign it would say: “Send the buck lower down the food chain to anyone but me.”

In today’s Opinion Piece, Crispin Hull takes a close look at political tribalism and State COVID lockdowns…