Try as I might I can’t imagine any possible, even unlikely, scenario where the Coalition government in Canberra manages to get?returned in the widely expected May 2019 general election. To …
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I’m glad that I got the chance to walk down Avenue des Champs-Elysees from Arc de Triomphe towards Louvre when doing so did not mean getting gassed by the police …
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The leaders on the way out (I was going to write “outgoing” but it would have been confusing because in one sense they are not) like to leave these sorts …
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I prefer to live in a country where I can rate my government and not the other way around – but many others don’t have that blessed choice: Millions of …
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You could probably stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant of differing viewpoints as TDC do read on: The radical idea of …
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The voting still continues on the left coast, but from the results so far it seems like the opinion polls were correct in general – the Democrats take the House, …
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Thanks to the good people at Deutche Bank, and via Business Insider, you now know where to travel around the world to get the cheapest cigarettes and beer. Having compared …
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I feel like the voice crying in the wilderness. I have been writing about government debt, both in the United States and in Australia, for a long time because I …
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How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …
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It’s difficult to have a properly working democracy and decent government finances when the government is a sugar daddy for most citizens: The top fifth of households by -income are …
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The progressives love the frisson of imagining dystopias where a few plutocrats enjoy their own private paradise while the masses are condemned to a Hobbesian life of squalor, poverty, violence …
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And?so the Canberra circus rolls on. Perhaps it’s unfair to call it that, as with real circuses people actually willingly pay money to enjoy the spectacle of skill, agility, poise …
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In a long and often bloody and tumultuous history of the Roman Empire, there are few periods like what has become known among scholars as the Crisis of the Third …
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It’s a fact little remarked upon that in 1976 one current and one future leader of?their nation’s top intelligence agency both voted communist: KGB’s Yuri Andropov in the Soviet Politburo …
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The current crop of Western leaders is failing to inspire the electorates much beyond their base. Is it just a coincidence, or do we live during particularly polarised and unsettled …
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(With apologies to former President Obama’s favourite rapper Jay-Z) The Victorian government, having solved all the important issues, like the breakdown of law and order, is now focusing on the …
Read More“RAND PAUL: STUDYING SEXUAL TENDENCY OF QUAILS ON COCAINE IS WASTE OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING” – Possibly the headline of the year so far, after yesterday’s story of the year about …
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