Tag: Crispin Hull

” With the Russian invasion, countries banning imports from Russia (which supplies 12 per cent of world oil) will source elsewhere, including places where Australia gets its fuel. That will cause prices to rise even more and supplies to be less secure, with rippling effects through our economy.

We should be getting smarter sooner. We should be embracing and leading the third industrial revolution…”

“..Governmental paralysis and lack of public initiative is depriving Australia of enormous economic and social benefits…”

“…Pardon the pun, but we are at a watershed here. Do we do what we did in 2011 and 2017 and allow people to rebuild their flooded homes and businesses only to see them flooded yet again? Do we watch while councils and state governments rebuild flooded infrastructure rather than relocating it or building it back in a way that is more flood-proof?…”

“…events in the 21st century have changed the way rights, protections and security intersect.
Maybe a new Labor Government should not try to deal with religion in isolation, but open up the whole rights and protections issue…”

Crispin Hull on Recession, Interest Rates and Recession

“We approach yet another Australia Day – the national day that most nations celebrate their identity and/or birth – with continued human confusion and muddle about both. Geographically we are certain about what Australia is. Humanly we are not.”

“When the Government loses trust in government, small wonder that most of the population does likewise…”

“The pandemic has, unfortunately, caused our fearful political leaders to shy away from the very bold steps needed to deal with the political fault lines that that very pandemic has exposed.”

” It looks like “let ‘er rip” is the new policy given the exponentially rising infection rates. It comes with various ministers in the Morrison-Joyce Government using the phrase “living with Covid”. The trouble is that the “let ‘er rip” policy comes with a more threatening phrase: “Dying with Covid…”

” Australia should build up its diplomatic armoury; remain vocal on breaches of human rights and trade rules; join with other democratic nations to undermine the vast government censorship in China; and join other countries in dealing with the one national-security risk we should fear above all others: climate change. It should also patiently wait for the demise of Xi….”