Displaying items by tag: Public Policy
Finally, a Decentralisation Policy That Might Work
Governments in Australia and elsewhere have longed for decentralisation, and pursued it relentlessly. It never worked. Could Covid madness be the answer?
Profiting from Covid - The New Growth Industry
Welcome to the Covid economy. Depleted incomes, smashed small businesses, bullshit jobs, a whole new platform for crony capitalism, deserted main streets. What's not to love?
Jacinda, Justin, Joe, Boris and ScMo - A Busted Flush for the Anglosphere?
The Anglosphere faces a crisis of leadership. The West is now ruled wall-to-wall by second rate ideologues and/or chancers, either determined to change the global order or powerless to prevent the revolution we now face.
The Big Lie That Will Save ScoMo's Skin
The governments, including Australia's, that have jettisoned freedom and the economy to save us all from a largely limp virus, are banking on getting away with one more big lie to get them off the electoral hook. It is called a vaccine.
Convergent Opportunism
Conspiracy theorists are everywhere. Sometimes, though, they are called acute observers, social scientists, historians, critical thinkers. Governments and others may not have planned the Covid epidemic, but many with agendas are cashing in. Call them convergent opportunists.
Judging Trump - Four Years On and (Perhaps) Counting
Americans face, as they always say, their most important election in a generation. Assessing the merits of any president isn't always easy. Assessing the merits of Donald Trump is a whole other thing.
A Protest Bus, a Cartier Watch and the Awful Fruits of Privatisation
When protest buses attacking Daniel Andrews get forced off the road by police, and when politicians abuse private sector executives for doing their jobs, there is clearly something very wrong with our public services. It all goes back to an unhealthy 1980s obsession with privatisation and "new public management".
A Nothingburger that Changed the World
Circling the Wagons for Gladys
Many are coming to the defence of the NSW Premier following her outing as a consort of the corrupt. Their arguments in her favour, all five of them, are without merit.