14, August, 2021

A government should have contingency plans for a variety of potential disasters. COVID-19 was a wake-up call. Is long-term planning just too hard, too expensive, and too time-consuming?

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.

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.

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?

11, December, 2014

Why do we have a split health system where Medicare cover part of the cost, and Health Funds cover other parts?

4, December, 2014

There are long-term structural issues with Government budgets but nobody seems interested in addressing them. What should we do?

12, January, 2014

Should Health Funds be allowed to run their own clinics and hospitals? It will result in some inequalities in medical services.