Turned to writing at 60, reckon that'll do for the next 30 years, then I'll become a musician - after that, who knows, maybe a wizard...
Bali and the coronoavirus – what comes next?
The Bali economy is in dire straits but the hospitals are not overflowing and morgues reporting business as usual. Is it luck? Are the statistics lulling us into a false sense of security or could we actually be welcoming tourists back before the year is out?...
Turnbull’s memoir silent on monopoly’s future
It was “Too early to tell” according to the misunderstood reply from Zhou Enlai (China’s Prime Minister from 1949 to 1976) to Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s on the question of what he thought about the French Revolution. The same can be...
My week with Malcolm and the hypocrisy of our democracy
Otto von Bismarck (in)famously said: “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best”. It is a sentiment I abhor. And Malcolm Turnbull’s tome of atonement - “A Bigger Picture” - unwittingly demonstrates with abundant clarity that the...
Will Australians buy the “Team Australia” pitch for the Covid tracing app?
The Australian government has announced plans to make a Covid-19 contact tracing app available to all Australians. The privacy and security concerns that inevitably accompany such initiatives are now being debated as the government moves into ‘sales pitch’...
Latest Podcast – talking #auspol with Denise Shrivell
Always a pleasure talking to Denise Shrivell – the ‘founder’ of the #auspol tag on Twitter and a daily voice of reason and compassion. We cover everything from bushfires to Facebook and the changing media landscape.
Clever Politics is Rarely Visionary – the Particracy Rules
We live in a particracy, not a democracy. Clever politicians rule the roost, devoid of vision, focused on the short term and sheltered by a complicit media. There is only one way to change it.
The curious case of a merger opposed
The ACCC is trying to stop TPG and Vodafone from merging – if they succeed, they are bound to fail on appeal. Clver strategy or over reach?
Turnbull’s Legacy – killing the NBN in the name of party politics
NBNCo recently released its updated corporate plan, laying bare the folly of the MTM strategy engineered by Malcolm Turnbull in the name of party politics. Nothing was achieved by that other than a sub-standard network at the same cost.
A comparison of NBN Corporate Plans
NBN Co released its latest Corporate Plan on 30 August 2019 with the headline that it is on track to finish the build of the network by June 2020. After a decade in the build phase NBN Co is highlighting how it now plans to move to an operational mode with a focus on...
Political bribery and a Federal ICAC
Political bribery includes donations of all kinds. Being clear about this should precede establishing a federal Independent Commission against Corruption .
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