Tag: Crispin Hull

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….

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.

Crispin Hull looks back on the year of living precariously, reflecting on why life in Australia is so much less precarious than in most other places on earth and what we should do to make it remain so….

We must not underestimate the power of the Chinese Communist Party.
In today’s OPINION piece, Crispin Hull breaks down the coercive, schoolyard-style and crime-gang inspired bullying strategy of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
He shares his view of how we need to collectively respond to China’s weapon of coercive diplomacy-and how ultimately this strategy is a self-destructive path…

It has been apparent for more than a decade that fuel tax is an unsustainable and inequitable way to fund Australia’s roads and that it should be replaced by a road-user charge.

The announcement by the NSW Government that it will abolish stamp duty and replace it with an annual property tax proves that bold tax reform is possible beyond merely giving big socially destructive income-tax cuts to the wealthy.

In a week when opinion polls were shown not to have done very well in the US, research into why the polls got it wrong in the 2019 Australian election was published – basically, it was the human factor.

When Joe Biden gets a clear majority of the vote and Electoral College on Tuesday, a side question will be whether Donald Trump goes willingly or has to be militarily crowbarred out of the White House before inauguration day. Either way he will go.
The real issue is whether Biden and his Vice President, Kamala Harris, can reverse not only the excesses of Trump but replace the whole rotten dysfunction of the American polity that set in with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.