HEALTHCARE COST PROJECTIONS LOOK PRETTY SICK STONE the crows! Who’s doing the diagnosing of medicine’s maladies? Nine out of ten medical experts will tell you doctors are over-worked and under-paid. And the 80 per cent of patients who are bulk billed say they need easier access to more medical services, presumably to ensure their constitutional [...]
SAY CHEESE – BUT ONLY FOR THE ARTISAN (NOT ALDI) PRODUCT Blessed are the cheese makers but, stone the crows, they complain when they aren’t.[i] Close observers of cheesy comestibles will have noticed the Easter Show prizes last week. And (the udder please) Aldi was a big winner, with eight gold medals and the best [...]
FOR SOME SUPER-CORRUPTION – TRY IRAN STONE the crows! You might have missed it, what with all the amusement at ICAC, but everything is really awful in Iran. It’s an excellent example of what occurs when political insiders use the state as their own source of fun and profit, (the Islamic Republic, not NSW that is). [...]
WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SAYS “EQUITY” IT MEANS MORE TAX FOR SUPERANNUATION SAVERS STONE the crows! Karl Marx is back on the menu! Remember, “From each according to his ability to each according to his needs”?[i] The United Voice union does. The comrades are keen on the National Disability Insurance Sheme, which (what a surprise!) they [...]
AUSTRALIA: IN TIME, AN UNSUSTAINABLE EUROPEAN-STYLE WELFARE STATE? STONE the crows! When will a politician promise to abolish death and taxes? Sometime between now and the election is the Crows’ guess. Sure, both sides are announcing how responsible they are. Last Wednesday, the Prime Minister promised “substantial new structural savings that will maintain [...]
Down With Gasbagging : The Case Against Protectionism (Via Preferential Pricing) for Local Users Stone the Crows! Suddenly it’s the 70’s – the decades in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries both. Scary signs of a return to the age of glam –rock and the big spending state sparkled in the skies over the summer. The first [...]
Shock Horror – The End of Free Wine Tasting in NSW There’s no such thing as a free wine-tasting STONE the crows! It’s enough to drive a bird to drink. There was a corker of a warning last week from Hunter Valley wine makers threatened by a New South Wales Treasury plan. That blighter Bruce [...]
ACTU’s Tim Lyons – Backing taxi owners at the expense of drivers and passengers Stone the crows! ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons sniped at the Productivity Commission last week and shot himself in the foot. “There’s a sameness to the advice from the PC,” he said. And added: You can generally guess the content of [...]
Waiting for Daniel Day Lewis as Abraham Lincoln STONE the crows! The laurels go to Lincoln. The Crows discovered many remarkable things in Tennessee last week. One was realising they had completely misunderstood the Battle of Stones River. Another came from watching Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln, in Steven Spielberg’s new biopic, (there’s not much [...]
Governing America – F D Roosevelt and Richard Nixon compared Stone the crows! Government is the goodie in the US. The Crows found themselves in Hyde Park the other day, no not the one across the road from DJs, the one on the Hudson River in upstate New York. (In the immortal words of Chuck [...]
