How can the University of Queensland recover from the Drew Pavlou affair?
The management of the University of Queensland, and in particular Peter Hoj and Peter Varghese, stand condemned today by the international media, by both Labor...
Covid strategies for Australia: herd immunity or quarantine land?
Let’s talk about some of the covid policy options facing Australia in the coming months and years. It seems to me we can either grasp...
The Drew Pavlou case: business with China versus the American lobby
In a week from now, UQ student leader Drew Pavlou will face an internal hearing at the University of Queensland to decide whether or not...
Churchill’s children: the rise of the privileged Marketeers in Anglo-Land
For almost a century the royal road to becoming a top politician in Anglo-Land was to study law and/or a bit of economics. In Australia...
The Guru recipe
[I just read a self-help book and, like Don Quixote, need to vent...] My 10 rules for becoming a successful guru: Appear popular at the...
PATRICIA EDGAR. The Circus that has been Government Policy on the ABC for Forty Years
Cross-posted from John Menadue's Pearls and Irritations. The ABC has been an extraordinarily resilient organisation. It has withstood management and Board upheavals, survived remorseless budget...
Let’s have another World War!
Sometimes, it feels like 1910 all over again. Then, a confident Germany was the up-and-coming industrial power house, fearing an even more up-and-coming Russia, with...