23, April, 2022

What balance are we prepared to accept between taxation and overnment-provided social services?

25, May, 2021

Is democracy the best form of government and is it likely to be around in a hundred years?

8, March, 2021

Trump's America is the prime example of cutting regulation. Should we do more in Australia, or is that a slippery slope?

4, January, 2021

Why does social progress take so long? Why do some people resist change that will give us a better life?

16, October, 2020

WEIRD. It stands for Western – Educated – Industrialised – Rich – Democratic. Are we all a bit weird? How do other societies operate, and is it OK to be weird?

29, December, 2018

People do change opinions so we need to find the trigger that will explain a situation in their terms that leads to a different conclusion.

28, June, 2017

Creative thinking and politics conjure up images of rorting and dodgy accounting. However, innovative thinking should be applied to some of the problems governments face to find alternative solutions.

4, May, 2017

Too much regulation is the call from business. Without that regulation, would we live in a better world? Perhaps it would a place where a business that was not prepared to bend the rules would fail.

26, February, 2017

If you can't measure it, you can't manage it. Should we apply this to government regulation?

30, June, 2016

Most civilisations implode when the upper and lower classes get too far apart. A shrinking middle class is a sign of a civilisation in decline.