Till debt do us apart
I feel like the voice crying in the wilderness. I have been writing about government debt, both in the United States and in Australia, for a long time because I …
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Public sector workers’ paradise
How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
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The new 60:20 rule
It’s difficult to have a properly working democracy and decent government finances when the government is a sugar daddy for most citizens: The top fifth of households by income are …
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On San Francisco Shit Patrol
The progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
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Canberra: Things will get worse before they get much worse
And so the Canberra circus rolls on. Perhaps it’s unfair to call it that, as with real circuses people actually willingly pay money to enjoy the spectacle of skill, agility, poise …
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Crisis of the 21st Century
In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third …
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The 1st Amendment Freedom of Leak
It’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …
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We’ve got some pretty unpopular leaders
The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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I’ve got 99 gender pronouns but a bitch ain’t one
(With apologies to former President Obama’s favourite rapper Jay-Z) The Victorian government, having solved all the important issues, like the breakdown of law and order, is now focusing on the …
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