PREDICTING THE FUTURE ABOUT THE AGEING POPULATION IS SUCH A HARD WORK Stone the crows! There’s a reason why old Australians don’t work. Not a lot of them like it, which is good because bosses aren’t keen to employ them. Among the pandora of predictions about the ageing population, the need for older workers to [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 261 13 MARCH 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as [...]
A COMMAND ECONOMY IN EDUCATION IS BACK ON THE AGENDA Stone the crows! The Brezhnevites are back, and re-regulating education is the issue they are using. Friends of the smaller state are less on the back foot than their bums as the idea of privatising public services takes a political pounding. The unpopularity of the [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 260 6 MARCH 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
THE CASE FOR KEEPING TAX MORALE HIGH Stone the crows! Convincing not convictions gets people to pay tax. Back in the early 1980s Australia was headed down the Athenian road, with tax evasion rife and avoidance endemic. The obvious cause was because a less than efficient tax system made it possible but the underlying reason [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 259 27 FEBRUARY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
THE GREEKS KEEN TO RESURRECT A FAILED STATE STONE the crows! It looks like the Greeks have got another bailout, with four months more loans to cover yet more talks on what the country can pay back. [i] Which will not be much – the economy is 25 per cent smaller than it was in [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 258 20 FEBRUARY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
SUBMARINES SHOULD BE FIT-FOR-PURPOSE AND SAFE Stone the crows! David Johnston was dead wrong to say he would not trust the Australian Submarine Corporation to build a canoe. [i] What the former defence minister should have said was that he was confident that the ASC could assemble and maintain a first rate canoe, if given [...]
GERARD HENDERSON’S MEDIA WATCH DOG – ISSUE NO. 257 13 FEBRUARY 2015 The inaugural issue of “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” was published in April 1988 – over a year before the first edition of the ABC TV Media Watch program went to air. Since November 1997 “Gerard Henderson’s Media Watch” has been published as part [...]
