24 November 2024

Is the USA a Banana Republic?

In June 1986, as the newly elected MHR for Burke I had the great privilege of standing beside Paul Keating on that fateful morning he declared that Australia “could become a banana republic” if we did not squarely face up to our economic problems.

21 July 2023

RBA lunacy rolls on

Increasing interest rates hasnt quite done the job; now we are told we need to increase unemployment to curtail inflation! Roll on the lunacy of conventional central banking and treasury inflation policy. Can some lessons never be learned?

29 April 2023

$368 billion on submarines: not a chance in hell!

This week the Federal ALP Government announced a significant cutback in the number of tanks to be stationed in the north to repel whatever is expected to land there to take our beautiful country away from us. Why because tanks just wont do the job in future.

15 November 2021

Real reasons for submarine bid fiasco must come to the surface

The nuclear sleight-of-hand, the budgeted billions and the diplomatic debacle warrant deep examination it's time to bring it all out in to the open.

29 September 2021

Rupert Murdoch's snail-like journey on climate change

The situation is so bad that even Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire has read the commercial tea leaves on climate change and rolled over. Not surprisingly Scott Morrison now also shows signs of a belated change of heart.