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We are encouraged to rely more and more on government officials to do for us what we could equally well do for ourselves—and, maybe more importantly, not to do what might help us solve our own problems.
Sep 08 2024
10 mins
If we imagine a metric called the Pinocchio Scale, which measures the number of lies told by a politician as a percentage of his or her overall public statements, our current prime minister (for want of a better description), Airbus Albo, has moved well into uncharted territory.
Sep 06 2024
5 mins
The Bum-Wiping Boondoggle of ‘Early Education’
The NDIS is a public policy albatross, initiated with the worthiest of intentions it has been allowed to mutate into a massive boondoggle, one right up there with Australia becoming a ‘renewable energy superpower’. The NDIS cost us somewhere the region of $42 billion in the current financial year and is expected to blow out even further.
But there is another boondoggle, not quite as expensive as the NDIS, but just as egregious in the extent to which it has been corrupted by rent-seekers and bureaucrats. Unlike the NDIS, this one has been flying under the radar. I am referring to the child-care industry.
This one ‘only’ will cost us $12.7 billion this financial year, but that is a not inconsiderable drain on our public purse. And like the NDIS, its cost is blowing out year by year. In 2019/20 it reportedly cost $8.6 billion. That is a jump of 50 per cent in three years.
In his 2023/24 budget, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has allocated expenditure of $98.6 million over the…
We are in the middle of an unprecedented civilisational experiment, and to restore any kind of vigour and optimism to Western civilisation, vigour and optimism must be restored to the family.
Aug 29 2024
23 mins
Apparently, what respectable Australian researchers do is assume that there is a link between suspensions and incarceration because American researchers claim to have found one.
Aug 29 2024
14 mins
Altogether, auteur theory sounds fascinating and, no doubt, develops excellent skills of analysis for students of film, as they dissect and discuss this or that auteur director’s body of work. But what is it doing in an English course, in high school, in Year 10?
Aug 29 2024
14 mins
