Young people are f***ing morons
Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent […]
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“No farmer, no food”
We have all probably seen this or a similar slogan at some point in our lives, sported on a t-shirt by a cowboy (or in […]
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The “far right” Thatcher fan
She is a lesbian politician (with a Swiss Sri Lankan partner) who wants to attract more women to support her, and she idolises Margaret Thatcher, […]
Continue reading »“TOP 20 PER CENT PAY 95% OF TAXES, MIDDLE CLASS ‘SINGLE DIGITS’” – But tax the rich: OMB later cited internal data to the Washington Examiner that […]
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Why I’m losing faith in Australian “Liberalism”, part 457
Two stories about the National Broadband Network in the media today. The one generating more outrage is the one singling out the most expensive connections […]
Continue reading »RENT-SEEKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT TAXPAYERS’ MONEY – Can Australia be made more like the United States, more than […]
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Breaking news: CFMEU are still scumbags
What does one even say? Union head Ged Kearney has sensationally claimed it is a mining giant’s fault that CFMEU protesters are making threats, as it […]
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They will have to pry the air-con from my cold dead hands
The tropical summer is not yet here, but life already is starting to feel like in some tropical, third world, busted-ass banana (bender) republic: Queenslanders […]
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Ten things we should be talking about instead of Same Sex Marriage
It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that the public debate in Australia […]
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Booze, girls and the Polish economic miracle
Poland is a land of mystery. Perhaps the biggest mystery is how the country has somehow managed to survive to the present (albeit far from […]
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Tony Wanker and the Woke Chocolate Factory
Contrary to what you might think, chocolate in general contains very little caffeine; no matter how much you eat – whatever other consequences might be […]
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Looking at Australia from Europe
Sometimes you just don’t know what to blog about. But you can still blog about not knowing what to blog about, which seems like the […]
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The Cocaine Index of Economic Prosperity
The good news is Iceland is back after a lost economic decade post the spectacular economic crash in 2008. You could be boring and support […]
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Standing on the birthplace of modern capitalism
I’m standing right on the birthplace of modern capitalism and it would feel like a pilgrimage except instead of quiet and contemplation there is noise […]
Continue reading »WHAT IF INEQUALITY IS MISLEADING? – I’m not an economist so I can’t critique but it strikes me as interesting research: Bruce Meyer of the […]
Continue reading »MACRONOMICS – Who would have thought that a 39-year old empty suit would prove to be empty? A lot of people actually. Emmanuel Macron’s honeymoon […]
Continue reading »A $5 MILLION VICTIM – Oh dear: Outgoing Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour has suggested that criticism of him and his controversial $5.6 million salary […]
Continue reading »HOW THE ENTITLEMENTS ATE THE BUDGET – In one graphic: Like a reverse Pac Man, swallowing the fiscal future.
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IPA and the shortsightedness of Australian business
Having avoided my mailbox yesterday, this morning I picked up the latest issue of “Institute of Public Affairs Review”. Attached to it was a letter […]
Continue reading »END OF THE MATING GAME – Social progress versus evolutionary biology: A dearth of marriagable men has left an “oversupply” of educated women taking desperate […]
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