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Such a Team! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Up until this point I’ve reserved judgment on the Albanese government, largely out of a lack of real interest in the intellectual squalor of Australian public life but also because the Morrison government buried us under a mountain of debt that I find unpleasant to contemplate. Having caught up with the latest Treasurer’s economic statement, all my worst fears about the Albanese government have been confirmed. They have no serious economic agenda for the country and appear to have learnt nothing from their last term in office.
Labor’s economic plan is a witch’s brew of unfunded social spending, discredited industry policy and billions of dollars in subsidies for economic parasites in the renewables industry, all overlaid with a veneer of unseemly class warfare rhetoric. If implemented, Labor’s plan will damage productivity and wages growth, and the worst part of it all is they’re either too economically illiterate, too paid-off or too dishonest to care.
Treasurer Dr…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins