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Smoke and mirrors: The big money behind Australia’s vaping ban
With a new financial year underway, the Morrison government will request the Governor-General to prohibit the importation of e-cigarettes containing vaporiser nicotine and nicotine-containing …
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Pandemic history ignored by state premiers
If we’ve learnt anything about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is that history may not repeat but it does have a habit of popping its …
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Our loony protesters are among the looniest
Around 100 assembled in Melbourne and less in Sydney. Not big numbers but what they lacked in people power they more than made up …
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Hazzards of entertaining the masses, one presser at a time
Pity the lot of our public administrators in these difficult times. Governments are imperfect organs and they will make mistakes. Not, it must be …
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Coronavirus: We’re in need of objective facts, not ideology
It’s no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic is rattling a few brains. Pity the economic commentators who have spent the last twenty years divining …
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New Senate may provide cleaner, smoother parliament
The numbers are in. Well, almost. The AEC has declared the Senate results for Victoria and there are no shocks or surprises left. The composition of …
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Albo’s listening tour … not coming to a theatre near you
Spare a thought for the Labor Party. Or don’t. See if I care. This week, while the realisation dawned on Australians that we live …
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Stench of statism rises in Australia
There is a terrible stench rising in this country and it took solid, fetid form yesterday. In Canberra, News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst had …
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Election 2019: where the betting markets went wrong, and why
We now all know the result. The Coalition has won majority government and Labor has been sent packing. In the betting markets 25 favourites …
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Betting markets show a pathway to Coalition victory, but it’s a long shot
Predicting the election result has been portrayed as a battle over who will be more accurate, the polls or the betting markets. The polls …