AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY FALLS from best (after GFC remedies under Labor) to below top 20. What is going on when the Coalition rides on a fable about good economic management? Alan Austin in the Michael West newsletter explains that News Corp media, that is The Australian, The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun,
Editorial / Opinion
Letter: Monaro’s Barilaro grapples with Murray-Darling
STRUTTING HIS STUFF lest he suffer relevance deprivation, Deputy Premier, Barilaro, despite not attending the Murray-Darling Basin Plan Ministerial Council, decided the plan was “untenable”. Years into the “plan”, in his second term, a Damascene moment of enlightenment suddenly revealed to him (and presumably his government) that NSW is in the
Editorial: Progressive policies and institutions, unabashed
Letter: Ratepayers, environment lose as EDE contractor goes into administration
REMINISCENT OF THE ALBATROSS in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s (1798) The Rime of the ancient Mariner, the burden of the EDE’s contract implosion will be difficult to shake. This failure will push posterity’s ratepayers’ burden well beyond the $86m, now projected, considerably beyond $50m originally “sold”. Adding to embarrassment is the fact, now
July youth grassroots movement for climate action
IN THE LAST year, we’ve seen an unprecedented grassroots movement for action on climate change. In the Global School Strike For Climate, hundreds of thousands of school students and their allies and teachers took to the streets in dozens of countries to protest insufficient action on climate change. These strikes have
