I wonder what type of negativity and opposition was faced by the first proponents of wide scale electricity grids? Towns had gas street lights, homes had gas or oil lamps, was there really a need for electricity? Was there outrage from street lamp lighters who would be put out of work? Was electrification of the [...]

Surprisingly enough, Murdoch’s* The Australian has come out swinging in defence of Murdoch’s* Sky News and its battle with the just-announced 24 hour ABC news network: THE ABC’s plan to launch in the next few months a 24-hour national television news service amounts to a taxpayer-funded declaration of war on commercial media outlets in Australia. [...]

A laughably flimsy column from Malcolm Colless today. It’s the latest example of what seems to be common practise now at The Australian – assert that they know what Australians are thinking and feeling, without bothering to muster any evidence to support their cause. It seems that The Australian’s political opinion team have been appointed [...]

We call them banana benders or cane toads and sometimes use the state they live in as a punch-line for unkind jokes, but for the most part Queenslanders are no more stupid and backwards than the rest of us. However I’m not sure that The Australian’s Malcolm Colless agrees with me. from next January all [...]

This is a guest post by Dave Gaukroger. __________ The Australian today has published a confusing article by Malcolm Colless where he attempts to paint the discussion of climate change as a “beat-up” and offers as an example two events from the past few decades when people have supposedly overreacted to an imagined threat. Colless’ [...]

Malcolm Colless has another rant about how the new industrial relations regime grants loads of power to the evil unions and destroys the balance so that the workers can run roughshod over their bosses. I encourage you all to give your thoughts on his arguments about unfair dismissal and enterprise bargaining in the comments – [...]

Malcolm Colless’s latest column in The Australian gives a fresh example of a recurring trend in political debate – the tendency to take substantial policy issues and reduce them down to an argument over whether the Government has a mandate. But it’s a pointless argument to have. In this particular case, the issue is the [...]