FOOD AS AN ADDICTION – THE CASE FOR AN INFORMATION CAMPAIGN Stone the crows! Political willpower will fail the fat. A new study has found that while people understand food is addictive they still assume the obese are responsible for their shape. Even worse, for advocates of the orthodoxy that obesity is an illness, the [...]
ROAD SAFETY REMUNERATION TRIBUNAL: B-DOUBLE REGULATION STONE the crows! The government appears intent on abolishing the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal.[i] The RSRT was established in July 2012 to set minimum pay and conditions for truck drivers, approve collective agreements and resolve disputes, especially situations where a driver was dismissed for refusing unsafe orders. [ii] It [...]
Need a speech or an oped. Call me on 0417 469 093 Stone the Crows! What price a national maritime welding capacity. CAN AUSTRALIA BUILD WARSHIPS AT ANY PRICE? There is talk of giving the Royal Australian Navy a fourth air warfare destroyer.[i] Not necessarily because it is needed, the current white paper specifies three, [...]
Need a speech or opinion piece. Call Stephen Matchett 0417 469 093 Volume of Outrage Unrelated to the Number Producing It. TURN THE GAS TO HIGH Stone the crows! Weekend coal seam gas has the locals a twitter where we roost. Not that there are drills in the Domain, the nearest work is aways away [...]
Need a speech or a comms strategy? Call me 0417 469 093 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO ECONOMICS? Stone the crows! What an economics exempt election that was. Sure, The Australian and the Australian Financial Review hammered away at the absence of economic policy. But columnists aren’t candidates and an argument about who is spending how much [...]
SUPERANNUATION: NOT ENOUGH TO DO THE JOB Super science and why nobody knows what it shows Stone the crows! As if science was not enough to keep it busy, CSIRO is getting in on the super slushie – the $1.6 trillion (yes trillion) we have socked away for our old ages.[i] The national science agency [...]
Need a speech or a comms strategy? Call me 0417 469 093 BO XILAI CASE DEMONSTRATES CHINA’S ANTI-DEMOCRATIC TIME-BOMB Stone the Crows! The Chinese really know how to put on a show, as in trial. In the process, they demonstrate why the People’s Republic will never become the super-power Australian miners desire and the military [...]
Need a speech or a comms strategy? Call me 0417 469 093 HEALTH COSTS – BEFORE AND AFTER THE ELECTION Stone the crows! We need to get the election out of the way so the country can get back to proper politics. You may not have noticed that there is an argument afoot over health [...]
AUSTRALIA: AN INVASION TARGET? STONE the crows! The ideas armoury is empty. The venerable Robert O’Neill put the possibility of an invasion of Australia on the agenda the other day. But it was lost in the blizzard of blather following the election announcement. Most main media merely ran an AAP brief.[i] Ignoring the issue is [...]
HIGHER EDUCATION? FORGET IT… Universities are politically irrelevant. They have a month to do something about it. Stone the crows! Universities are big, but ignored! Higher education employs 113,000 people; teaches 934,000 local students and generates $9.7bn in export income from international students studying here.[i] While well behind medicine, it does okayish on the motherhood [...]
