jmcdonnell64Sep 83 minWhat’s Behind the Victorian Recovery RoadmapMedical authorities have praised the Andrews government’s recovery roadmap but the business has slammed it as an over-reaction. The Prime...
jmcdonnell64Sep 82 minPremiers Prefer To Stay Under the DoonaAt last Friday’s National Cabinet meeting Scott Morrison put forward a perfectly reasonable plan to re-open the national economy based on...
jmcdonnell64Aug 253 minParliament ResumesParliament resumed on Monday under novel circumstances. Some members participated by way of video link, while others from Victoria had to...
jmcdonnell64Aug 253 minWhat Can We Learn From the NT Election?What can we learn from the NT election? The answer is not much. As at Sunday afternoon, Labor had still not achieved the 13 seats require...
jmcdonnell64Aug 122 minIs Inland Rail a White Elephant?There seems to be universal agreement that a key component of economic recovery, after the COVID recession, is infrastructure investment....
jmcdonnell64Aug 122 minThe Regions Have a Jobs ProblemThe virus infection can have dire consequences for the economy as everybody realizes. Unlike previous recessions this one has been delibe...
jmcdonnell64Aug 102 minIdiots Undermine COVID ResponseDaniel Andrews is at the end of his tether trying to manage the response to the COVID pandemic. He had to unwind the lockdown proposed by...
Jason ReganAug 108 minWhat Have We Learned This Week in AFL?With the AFL moving well past the halfway mark of the shortened season during the past week the potential finals picture is becoming clea...
jmcdonnell64Aug 43 minDan Andrews Closes Down the Victorian EconomyOn Monday the Victorian premier, Dan Andrews, announced his plan to shut down Victorian industry. He said that this was necessary to redu...
jmcdonnell64Aug 33 minShock and Awe in VictoriaVictoria had 671 new cases of COVID 19 on Saturday, 429 for Sunday, and it was too much for the Victorian government who decided to impos...
jmcdonnell64Jul 292 minIt’s Time to Revisit Water PolicyThere have been good rainfalls over Eastern Australia recently. Over the weekend and early this week drought there have been good rainfal...
jmcdonnell64Jul 283 minGovernments Are Failing UsA number of Australian governments are failing the public through incompetence or corruption. The South Australian government has lost th...
Jason ReganJul 285 minErosion of Trust Costs Lives In COVID TimesThe Victorian Government is currently fighting a battle it can not win. To be honest, the COVID-19 battle is already lost in Victoria. Th...
jmcdonnell64Jul 273 minWe are in a Depression and it HurtsA depression is defined as two successive years of negative growth and Treasury is forecasting that the economy will contract by 3.25% th...
jmcdonnell64Jul 233 minAuditor General Clears Angus Taylor in Watergate AffairWhen Tony Abbott won the election in 2013 one of the star recruits to the Coalition government was Angus Taylor. Taylor was the ultimate ...
jmcdonnell64Jul 223 minThe Changes to Jobkeeper and JobseekerThe Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, announced the changes to Jobkeeper and Jobseeker at a press conference at Parliament House on Tuesday...
jmcdonnell64Jul 212 minSteven Marshall is suppressing the MediaThe Premier of South Australia, Steven Marshall’s border restrictions have been imposed as part of a policy of suppression of COVID 19. I...
jmcdonnell64Jul 202 minJob Trainer Is Good Policy – how does it work?Last week the government announced a $2 billion ‘Jobtrainer’ package designed to promote skills training. The idea is to encourage more e...
