Five-ring circus: Latest costly distraction from getting on with Games
We’ve heard enough about legacies. What people want now is proof we can stage the Olympics, writes Mike O’Connor.
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Native title crackdown, lobbyists banned, Olympic certainty: O’Connor’s 2025 wishlist
Twenty twenty-four revealed the truly tawdry side of some of our political elite, but there’s hope for the year ahead. Albo might even grow a pair, writes Mike O’Connor.
‘Long ago, in a different world’: Good news and reflections in the festive season
I see images of Christmas holidays of my childhood in my mind now as clearly as back then, bathed in the brilliant, sun bleached technicolour of a Queensland summer, writes Mike O’Connor.
Cities are bursting at the seams but politicians look the other way
Mass immigration is impacting our liveability as Anthony Albanese unleashes his Big Australia vision, writes Mike O’Connor.
Sit down, shut up and let the smarter elites tell you what’s good for you
Get the feeling these days that you don’t know what’s good for you, but others who are so much smarter have the answer, asks Mike O’Connor.
If these are world-class cities, let’s stay in a class of our own
Many of Europe’s world-class cities are overcrowded, suffer social discord and are under a tsunami of mass tourism, writes Mike O’Connor.
Anthony Albanese has made me ashamed to be an Australian
We’ve had a long line of flawed prime ministers, but when it comes to abject failure of leadership, Anthony Albanese takes the biscuit, writes Mike O’Connor.
End of the woke joke: Trump victory spells doom for DEI
We may be seeing the end of the mantra for those who hide their inadequacies and failings behind the DEI shield, writes Mike O’Connor.
Easier to take a fistful of govt dollars than create a future for your kids
As the New Zealand experience has shown, Indigenous policies that divide rather than unite achieve nothing, writes Mike O’Connor.
Mike O’Connor: The only reason I’m not moving to the Arctic Circle … yet
After coming home to news of $14m 13-tonne white elephants and $700m redundant ferries, to wars being blamed for everything, and a $12bn monument to poor planning, only a new Queensland Premier is keeping me from leaving again, writes Mike O’Connor.
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