“This nation, after three thousand years of grandeur and decay… exhibits today all the physical and mental vitality that we find in its most creative periods… Very probably such wealth will be produced in China by 2030 as even America has never known and once again, as so often in the past, China will lead Continue reading »
Economy
The latest Audit Office report documenting mismanagement by the Morrison government of a grants program – in this case the Community Health and Hospitals Program – has generated outrage. At a time when the health system is under great pressure, over a billion dollars in grants were allocated on the basis of a dodgy process. Continue reading »
Kate Devlin dispels the sudden Science Fiction panic around superintelligence, and looks at the real threats to employment and the environment from AI and machine learning
I am in complete sympathy with Jennifer Bush Pearls and Irritations 5, June 2023 in resigning from the Labor Party because of Prime Minister Albanese’s congratulations to Israel despite its government’s disgraceful treatment of Palestinian people. Brand Loyalty. That indescribable loyalty, we feel towards our own country, our own football team, our own political party. Continue reading »
The evidence is now in – Chinese tourists are largely boycotting Australia. See the chart below which compares annual visitations from different countries in the year to March 2023 with those from the same countries in the year to March 2019 (well before the pandemic). Tourism is picking up from most countries, especially India which Continue reading »
Don’t believe anyone – not even a governor of the Reserve Bank – trying to tell you the Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase minimum award wages by 5.75 per cent is anything other than good news for the lowest-paid quarter of wage earners. Because they are so low-paid, and mainly part-time, these people account Continue reading »
HMRC contributed enormously to the rise in fraud after the then Chancellor approved tens of billions to be spent on pandemic support schemes
Despite the controversy, the French President's economic proposals are far from the 'Anglo Saxon' model. Barnaby Towns argues that, when it comes to addressing inequality, the UK could learn from them
An exclusive poll for Byline Times reveals voters believe the Prime Minister puts his own interests above those of the nation
Such terms and phrases as a rules-based system, de-risking, democracy vs autocracy, and coercive behaviour are not exhaustive but still expose obfuscation and double standards. Politicians campaigning for election love to use buzzwords and catchy phrases to explain what they stand for and what their policies are. They do that because they assume, probably rightly, Continue reading »