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The ageing alarmists won’t let go
Millions
The Courier-Mail (no link) is running a #Brisbane airport propaganda line that a curfew would disrupt flights for a million people a year (8 flights per night*pax/flight*365). Using the same basis of calculation, and assuming 500k people under the flight path, they are disturbing about 100 million people a year. #auspol #greens #auspol
Albanese government’s close embrace of Qantas may no longer fly with the times
I wrote this for the Guardian last week, Events have already moved on, with the snap resignation of Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, but the anomalous status of a “national flag carrier” with no interest in the welfare of the nation remains unresolved.
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We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen
We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen
My latest in The Conversation #auspol
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The intergenerational report will try to scare us about ageing. It’s an old fear, and wrong
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