Bureaucracy and The Australian Ethos
“Perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanise them”. Hannah Arendt. The Royal Commission report into the Robodebt scandal has shone a spotlight on the leviathan that is now the Australian government. Not surprisingly, the Albanese government has distanced itself from the findings, portraying the...
5 Policy Responses To The Covid-19 Vaccination Disaster
Recently I attended the Australian Medical Professional Society’s Curing the Corruption of Medicine event in Melbourne. The keynote speaker was British cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhotra. Double vaccinated with Pfizer, Dr Malhotra initially supported the vaccine rollout and encouraged the vulnerable to take the injection on national TV in January of 2021. His stance soon changed when, amongst other concerning...
How To Overhaul Universities’ Reliance On Foreign Students
Recently, Commonwealth Education Minister Jason Clare announced plans to overhaul Australian universities to reduce their reliance on international students. In making his announcement, Clare said “That’s the power of education: it changes lives.” In many respects Clare is correct; education does changes lives. But what doesn't change lives is administration. The Group of Eight (Go8) represents Australia's "leading research-intensive universities". But...
Death, Taxes and … Death Taxes?
“We know that there is a growing pot of wealth, sitting in the hands of older Australians that will be passed on in coming decades.” Gosh, that sounds juicy. What government could refuse the temptation to take a slice of that pie? However, that sentiment speaks to the fundamental flaw in the approach of our policy makers towards balancing our books...
