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 …
Like getting drunk with the Brady Bunch
No one could have prepared us for this. I’m not talking about the dispiriting global roll out of a life destroying pandemic and its …
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 …
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 …
How to survive lockdown as COVID-19 cabin fever hits
The media dances between adjectives. Depending on who is doing the scribbling for the autocue, we live in unusual, unprecedented, extraordinary, unique or challenging …
No leaping for joy until you leave
Yesterday I walked out the doors of the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead with a clean bill of health. The CT scan I …