Should anyone really be surprised that the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) has turned into a stupendous, money-guzzling white elephant? It was, after all, another brain fart of the same Labor government that gave us the NBN (original budget $29 billion, currently up to $51 billion and counting). In
freenz.substack.com An opinion piece from a vaccinated Australian writer, that is equally relevant in NZ. Yes it’s long, but I hope that some take a few minutes to read as it’s profound and wise. And it makes me wonder about the truth of those early reports
Tell me this isn’t a government operation. Right at the time that Australia is facing an energy crisis, power generators are making it even worse by taking capacity out of the grid. Why would they do that? Because, under the rules set down by the government, they will get
Viv Forbes saltbushclub.com Viv Forbes has technical and financial qualifications and experience. He has solar panels on his roof, but no vested interests in coal, oil or gas apart from diesel farm equipment and a diesel generator in the shed. Australia’s new ALP Government has gigantic green energy
As Anthony Albanese unpacks from yet another foreign jaunt since becoming PM just weeks ago, the country is rapidly falling apart around his ears. Lettuces are $11 a head, fuel is over $2/l, interest rates are spiking, and large parts of the eastern seaboard are facing blackouts just as
New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out With Science nzdsos.com Maria Zeee, from Zeee Media, talked to Australian Doctors in A Conference of Conscience series. Our Australian colleagues may have been less outspoken in the past two years, but they have come out fighting and they did not equivocate. In speaking
In just three weeks, the Albanese government has been thoroughly mugged by political reality. The party who boasted of a vague “plan” to “fix it” are body-slammed with simultaneous energy and cost-of-living crises, including the biggest interest rate hike in 22 years — and suddenly, the “plan” is
Information Opinion Back at the turn of the century I decided to step back from day-to-day activities at my company (doing actual ‘work’ was such a bore) preferring to be ‘Chairman of the Board’ in the background. Well, I am Chairman of the Board but you know what
In its first few weeks of government Albanese’s Labor have managed to comprehensively bollix nearly everything. Nearly. There’s been one glaring and pleasingly surprising exception: so far – so far – Labor have passed their first China test somewhat impressively. The surprise is even bigger, given that Albanese appointed notorious
Who’d want to be a fly on the wall when Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern get together? Not me, that’s for sure. It’d be like listening to Monty Python’s “Four Yorkshiremen” sketch as re-done by two middle-aged socialists. “When I were a girl, I
Jacinda Ardern has raised the 501 issue with the new Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Unsurprisingly and rather predictably, Albo has given Ardern the short shrift and told the functioning idiot that masquerades as our Prime Minister that Australia will keep on taking out the trash: Australia will continue with
Well, I’m glad our illustrious PM thinks it’s all a bit of a giggle. When he’s not scurrying overseas to pose for selfies in batik shirts while dodging questions about the cost of living, supply chain, and energy crises engulfing Australia, Anthony Albanese is going on breakfast
Even after getting brutally mugged by reality in his first fortnight of government, Anthony Albanese is still trying to act like an opposition leader when it suits him. Albanese’s entire campaign strategy was to play, not just a small target, but an invisible man. That included simply turning on
Well, that was fast. Just two weeks in office and the wheels are already falling off the Albanese government. Suddenly, Albo is finding out government involves a lot harder work than just sniping at everything the other guy does, and when you keep telling people you have a plan to
For a bloke that so few Australians actually voted for, Anthony Albanese sure has tickets on himself all of a sudden. Remember, twice as many Australians voted against as for Labor at the election. The party recorded its lowest primary vote in 100 years — nearly in its entire history. In
