Noel Turnbull

Noel Turnbull has had a 50-year-plus career in public relations, politics, journalism and academia. He blogs at http://noelturnbull.com/blog/

Noel's recent articles

NOEL TURNBULL. Wages, jobs and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

This is the West sir, and when the legend becomes fact, print the legend says the reporter to the Governor who is returning to a town for the funeral of a friend,Tom Doniphon, in the final scenes of the 1965 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The quote came to mind when reading an obituary of the economist, Alan Krueger, just after reading yet another quote from yet another business leader saying that increasing the minimum wage would increase unemployment. And this wage-unemployment myth is very much part of a modern Western myth just as much as it was...

NOEL TURNBULL. The billion dollar question

If you were running the Victorian Government what would you do with a spare billion dollars? Education, health, clean energy, public transport, the arts, reduced taxes or something else entirely?

NOEL TURNBULL. A dangerous decline

It is symptomatic of much that is disturbing and dangerous about Australian political discourse that Australias continuing decline in international public sector corruption rankings is given so little attention.

NOEL TURNBULL. Dodging the draft

Kim Jong-un has managed to achieve something that Presidents Johnson and Nixon couldnt get the draft dodging Donald Trump to Vietnam. Of course Trump didnt stay long soon leaving on a jet plane.

NOEL TURNBULL. Alarmed with due cause.

As Australia is heading for the mother of fear campaigns for the next election it is significant that in the USA home of fear, loathing and negative campaigns voters are becoming alarmed about the most fundamental threat (other thannuclear war precipitated by Trump sitting on the button) to the future of our world.

NOEL TURNBULL. A climate of hope.

Despite Donald Trump, Scott Morrison and others there is a significant change of opinion on climate change around much of the western world particularly in the US of all places for the better.

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