It is normal practice in the corporate world when there has been a significant failure of administration, that senior executives are held to account, being downgraded or even dismissed. Apparently this principle does not apply to the government employees who have presided over a disaster in Australia’s quarantine service, even when it has devastated…
Following last year’s big power outages in South Australia, after the closure of the Northern Power Station, and soaring electricity prices with the closure of the huge Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria, the Turnbull Government responded by asking Chief Scientist Alan Finkel to conduct an inquiry into the future security of the national energy market. The centrepiece of the review should have been guaranteeing the provision of long-term energy security, at the lowest cost, for Australian businesses and consumers. As coal has provided the lion’s share of Australia’s electricity for the past century, and will continue to do so into…
The title of the new book, Cardinal: The Rise and Fall of George Pell, says it all: Cardinal Pell is guilty, and must be brought down. Although no charges have been laid against the Cardinal, the author, ABC journalist Louise Milligan, has tried him and found him guilty. With much fanfare, this new book, published by Melbourne University Press, attempts to claim that Cardinal Pell has not only routinely covered up for paedophiles in the Catholic Church, but is himself an abuser. The 370-page book is littered with errors, small and large, which show that the author has little knowledge…
Having won the U.S. presidential election against the combined forces of the Democratic Party and the media, and with less than enthusiastic endorsement from his own Republican Party, it was to be expected that Donald Trump as president would face unprecedented opposition from the media, the Democrats and from powerful sections of the American political…
