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 …
Sweden takes the big coronavirus risk for none of the economic gain
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 …
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 …
The America first model on how not to fight COVID-19
There has to be the first canary down the mine shaft. When it comes to providing a how-to on moving from lockdowns to opening …
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 …