How about that RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons – wouldn’t he look good in the big chair as NSW premier or even Prime Minister. He certainly looks comfortable handling one of the country’s biggest peace time disasters. Which is a lot more than you can say for Scomo and Gladys. GoRead more »
It’s reasonable to give new leaders a chance to prove their worth. And that’s what most fair minded Australians have done with Scott Morrison. But the honeymoon is over; indeed it has crashed and burned, just like the millions of acres consumed by the biggest bush fire season in livingRead more »
They didn’t know it at the time, but the 1920s would be part of a small break between two world wars. That’s right, 100 years ago people living across the world were about to enter a new decade after going through the hell of the war to end all wars,Read more »
We live in two worlds now. In the first one we carry on with our lives – work, home, family – and count our little blessings. In this world we get on with each other well enough, be it in traffic jams or queues at Woolies. It’s not perfect butRead more »
It is possible to deal with climate change without wrecking the economy, argues Labor MP Dr MIKE FREELANDER, the federal member for Macarthur: Australia has been plagued by policy paralysis in the climate change arena for far too long. Conservative apparatchiks have made a sport out of pitting environmental policyRead more »
A lot of your money has been spent on consultants over the past few years asking them to come up with ideas to help make Campbelltown great. But the best ideas are free, and this one from Councillor Warren Morrison is a beauty. If he had his way, every pieceRead more »
We’ve never had it so good. But we’ve never been less happy. We live longer than any other generation in history. But we live in fear that cancer is just around the corner once we turn 80. We have the highest standard of living ever imagined. But it doesn’t stopRead more »
It’s shocking to think that in 2019 we hardly harvest any stormwater in the Sydney metropolitan area. Unfortunately, the more you look, the worse it gets. After spasmodic and half hearted attempts at introducing mandatory water tanks for every new home built, when it comes to water conservation we haveRead more »
Like most people I get turned off by the antics of the current crop of protesters. Their tactics of glueing themselves to the road, among other things, to disrupt traffic in the heart of cities like Brisbane, have certainly earned the ire of conservative commentators. Some of them are frothingRead more »
We need a ceasefire in the war over climate change. It may only be a verbal war but for those of us who sit in the centre it is a waste of time. The interesting thing is that both sides of the argument employ similar tactics: yelling hyperboles at eachRead more »
The problem for me is not whether Campbelltown Council’s new logo design is good or bad. For mine, it was always about why do it in the first place. Why spend so much money and effort on something that Blind Freddie could tell you wasn’t going to give much inRead more »
Moralistic arguments ought to be set aside and the NSW abortion bill should be passed without amendment, argues DR MIKE FREELANDER, the federal member for Macarthur: Until now I have restrained myself from commenting on the so-called “Abortion Bill” in the NSW Parliament as this is a state issue, hasRead more »
