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Stop giving the public service impossible jobs and then blaming them when the system collapses (opens the original)
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Bureaucrats are easy scapegoats for the ills that come with governments supplying thousands services. Sure they make some ridiculous and identifiable errors. Who in their life hasn't? But the overall mess in the provision of large-scale services just isn't their fault. The NDIS and aged care are just examples. Our demand for nationwide services generates the need for enormous blackhole bureaucracies. Activity is generated but who is answerable to whom and for what is unclear. That's the nature o
People were vile to me while I was an MP. Here's why I won't out them (opens the original)
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Why do so few of our decent, hard-working, caring, young Australians get the credit they deserve? Sure they're not all as famous as the young man who ran to Bondi, barefoot, with a defibrillator. But they're out there. Every day thousands of young Australians are doing good, kind things we rarely hear about. Unfortunately, even younger Australians don't see the example they set. Mum and Dad telling them what is the right way to behave might be their only guiding light. How much better for them i
Yes, housing prices are phenomenal. But some people really need to cut their cloth (opens the original)
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Band-Aid solutions are not very effective and certainly not long-term. And yet successive governments keep serving them up. Because we want them. Or think we do. It's just a load of short-term instant gratification. Better to relearn a few home truths. What governments and people need to learn is the title of an early Rolling Stones song. You can't always get what you want. Your granny might have said, "you need to cut your cloth." Margaret Thatcher loved using stories that related back to her b
End the guilt-tripping and virtue-signalling. Let's just get real about making a practical difference (opens the original)
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It's time to face up to the real difference between living a traditional Indigenous life and simply having Indigenous heritage. It's never easy drawing lines in policymaking, but it has to be done. Noel Pearson's remarks at the Garma festival highlighted the very real divide between the structural realities of remote communities and life everywhere else. In remote areas, Indigenous Australians live much, much closer to their traditional culture and language than people with Indigenous heritage i
If you keep barracking for your side like it's sport, the big loser will be democracy (opens the original)
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Why is it that so many Aussies will confidently share their views on Trump, Netanyahu, Meloni, Macron, but might not be able to name their own local member? Simple. We don't want to bury ourselves in the bother of understanding policies. We want to revel in being a virtual team player for personalities. That's OK in one sense. We have a representative democracy because we had to work out a manageable way of coming to policy decisions that we could accept as binding on all of us. We divide oursel
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