• Australian and US flags

    15, June, 2020

    Gun control is not the only thing Australia can teach the USA. Our electoral system is light years ahead of America.

    By Published On: 15, June, 20208.6 min read
  • 28, April, 2020

    Socialism and capitalism are often at war with one another but for our society to continue we must find ways to have them cooperate.

    By Published On: 28, April, 20208.2 min read
  • Long term and short term planning

    11, April, 2020

    Covid was described as 'unimaginable'. Why? We have had epidemics before. The problem was that this time, we had no plan to handle it.

    By Published On: 11, April, 20204 min read
  • Wind Turbines

    9, January, 2020

    Environmentalism is about searching out the facts, then acting on them. There is too much 'virtue signalling' from some quarters to do something that has little impact but allows us to say we care about the planet.

    By Published On: 9, January, 20208.8 min read
  • 4, December, 2019

    By Published On: 4, December, 201922.9 min read
  • Dry pasture in a drought

    8, November, 2019

    We think of farmers' demands for water as fixed and the supply of water as variable. What if we fix the amount of water a farmer receives on an annual basis, and the farmer can plan around that amount?

    By Published On: 8, November, 20197.6 min read
  • Eli Cohen

    25, October, 2019

    Morality largely depends on your perspective. One person sees a particular incident as perfectly moral and another as totally immoral.

    By Published On: 25, October, 20195.2 min read
  • Us v Them

    19, June, 2019

    What do you want from politicians? Will you get it, or is it even realistic to demand it?

    By Published On: 19, June, 20196.9 min read
  • middle class workers

    9, May, 2019

    What is important to us from the government? Is it what will put money in our pockets, or is it what is good for the whole of society?

    By Published On: 9, May, 201910 min read
  • 22, February, 2019

    Media is a business out to make a profit. If providing us with what we say we want sold more newspapers, or got more viewers the media would do it. What do we really want?

    By Published On: 22, February, 20196.2 min read