16 February 2024

The moral world falls at the end game in Rafah

People in the West are Gaza-war weary. You see it in fewer reports, articles and commentary. It is an understandable by-product of the complicity-cum-impotence of Western civilisation in the face of Israeli barbarism.

16 January 2024

Diplomacy, morality and media have failed the people of Gaza

Imagine this headline: Brits bomb Belfast to obliterate IRA 24,000 dead, 50,000 injured, all hospitals flattened children limbless and starving.

15 August 2023

Its easier to wreck a critical institution than to repair one

When Barnaby Joyce forced the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to relocate from Canberra to Armidale, he couldnt have chosen a more vulnerable, complex or vital institution to damage.

6 August 2023

The APS: Integrity, or spineless servility?

The Robodebt Royal Commission has shown that the Australian Public Service is at a crossroads. It can be a professional and ethical APS that serves the public interest through the government of the day. Or it can be an overtly politicised service, little different from the staff in ministerial offices. What must not persist is the stealth service, where the pretence of a professional public service masks spineless servility and outright capture.

22 June 2023

Calvary Hospital acquisition may open new horizons

How different it might have been if the Catholic Church had kept out of it. If, instead of clergy expressing institutional male outrage, it had been Little Company of Mary Sisters (LCM), in the sensible attire of modern nuns, with SRN, and perhaps even, MBA and MBBS, after their names, saying, This is our hospital. We have dedicated our lives to caring for our patients here, and we will not let you take it from us. What would public opinion have said then?