Small Business Workers Smashed By Lockdowns
Small business workers continue to suffer heavy job losses and the divide between the two Australias has widened, according to analysis released today by free market think tank the...
A Warning From Australia: Boris Johnson’s Cure Is Worse Than The Disease
Victoria has become famous for using lockdowns to ‘defeat coronavirus.’ Dr Anthony Fauci mentioned Australia as a country that did “quite well”. We haven’t defeated the virus. The virus...
Originally appeared in The Telegraph
A Target Of Zero Cases Means Zero Jobs, Zero Freedom And Zero Hope. Here’s A Better Way
Australia needs a COVID-19 reset. After seven hard months of social isolation, economic pain and despair about the future, the time has come to change course. COVID-19 is not going anywhere. It...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Dan’s Debacle Shows Why Democracy Matters
The debacle that is the response of Australia’s state governments to the coronavirus pandemic has provoked claims such as “the federation is broken” and “the PM must do...
Lockdowns Hurt Small Business, Young Australians But Public Servants Flourish
This is not Australia’s first recession, nor will not be the last, but it is the first recession caused by deliberate actions taken by government. Creating a depression-era economy is…
Originally appeared in The Australian
Australia Is In A K-Shaped Recession
Australia is experiencing a ‘K-shaped’ government-induced recession from the lockdown measures. The public sector are thriving and growing on the upward arm of the ‘K’, but the private sector...
The WHO Has Let The Cat Out Of The Bag: COVID-19 Is Now More About Politics Than Public Health
The World Health Organisation’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last Friday that “we will not – we cannot – go back to the way things were… the pandemic has given new impetus...
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Dan Vs Democracy
When Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews says that it is ‘foreseeable’ that a state of emergency could last beyond another 12 months, Australians would not be out of place in wondering…
Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Dan’s Divine Rule Betrays Our History
Most Victorians wouldn’t have a clue what you were talking about if you said Premier Daniel Andrews was acting like King Charles I. Coronavirus or not, the government of the state...
Originally appeared in Australian Financial Review
COVID19 and the Path to Pragmatic Acceptance
In Victoria there has been a furious reaction to the casual announcement by the Premier, Daniel Andrews, that he would recall Parliament in order to seek an extension to the…
Australia Has Returned To Being A Convict Nation
It must be nice to be Shane Warne. Shane was one of the 22,640 citizens The Australian Border Force granted permission to leave the country between March 25 and July…
Private Sector Smashed While Bureaucrats Flourish In Lockdown
More than 604,000 private sector jobs have been destroyed since lockdowns were introduced in March while 14,000 jobs have been added to the public sector according to an analysis of…