Will 2032 Games be a five-ringed millstone around our necks?
It’s too late to “do a Dan Andrews” and cancel the 2032 Games, but Queensland’s disastrous record in managing infrastructure costs does not bode well, writes Mike O’Connor.
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Beware Albanese’s censorship by another name
An attempted attack on free speech in the US could be imported Down Under, giving the Albanese government unprecedented power to control what you see and hear on social media, writes Mike O’Connor.
ABC’s latest woke move another step towards expensive irrelevance
Just because the ABC has a workforce from “all corners of the community” doesn’t mean they’ve hired the right people for the job and are delivering taxpayers value, writes Mike O’Connor.
Cries of victimhood: Welcome back to a country that’s changed
Returning home from an overseas holiday, I am met with the insistence on Voice truth-telling or rather one group’s version of it at the expense of everyone else’s, writes Mike O’Connor.
Why should sacked G-G Hollingworth be paid $7m?
Queenslanders struggling with the cost of living might be wondering why former governor-general Peter Hollingworth has been paid more than $7m in pension and expenses since he was sacked, writes Mike O’Connor.
Cleopatra, Gone with Wind latest victims of ‘grievance’ hunters
OPINION: Who knew that Cleopatra was black or Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind was a homicidal white supremacist? Welcome to 2023, where the ‘torturous search for grievance grinds on’, writes Mike O’Connor.
O’Connor: Why we’ll be poorer for voting yes for Voice
Opinion: The more Anthony Albanese and the Yes camp try to pressure me in their direction, the more I will push back, writes Mike O’Connor.
Grounded boomers are paying price of age discrimination
Many people of a certain age are discovering their dream of post-retirement travel won’t be realised or will be curtailed because they are not wealthy enough to take out travel insurance, writes Mike O’Connor.
Never forget our surrender to Palaszczuk’s Covid tyranny
Don’t ever forget how armed police banned us from crossing the border to visit a dying relative as an inept bureaucracy failed spectacularly, writes Mike O’Connor.
Albo’s tears just make me more suspicious
OPINION: An Australian prime minister shedding tears in public is not unprecedented. But Anthony Albanese’s ‘lip-quivering performance’ over the Voice to parliament made me suspicious, writes Mike O’Connor.
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