Obama, The Paris Rally, The Summit on Violent Terrorism
Even though Obama has announced an anti-violent terrorism summit in February, the pathetic US response to the Paris killings remains a serious... Read More
Lessons from Paris Killings
Abbott’s response to the Paris killings is much better than those by other world leaders, including Obama. Abbott identifies the origin as... Read More
How to Improve Political Leadership
The framing of economic policies naturally has to take account of current economic and political conditions. But the significant reduction in Coalition... Read More
Spread of Islamic Threat
It is not very often that the Herald Sun writes an in depth editorial on the values underlying Australian society. But largely... Read More
Lima Conference & Abbott Government Attitudes
The Australian has today published my letter on Bishop’s comments at the Lima Conference (see below) but it omitted the important last... Read More
A “Holiday” of Decisions – But What Decisions?
While we were told a few days ago that Abbott was going to take a long summer holiday, he now says there... Read More
Time for a Long Summer Holiday?
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Today’s Herald Sun reports (see below) that Abbott will scale back his paid parental leave scheme and allocate the savings for expenditure... Read More
Abbott Moves Further Down Polling
Abbott’s further fall in polling, coupled with the Liberal Coalition’s loss in Victoria, raises a serious question viz how can he recover... Read More
Obama’s Australian Bloopers More Exposed
The backlash to Obama’s address at Queensland University has increased, with today’s Australian running three articles (see below) that further damage his... Read More
G20 Doesn’t Solve Polling Problem
Yesterday’s AFR published a letter on climate change I sent it last week (see below). Surprisingly given the many G20/climate change reports... Read More