The renewable energy industry will become the latest incarnation of the long-gone Holden Commodore as billions in subsidies are dangled before would-be investors, writes Mike O’Connor.
We are all equal in tendering for contracts, but some are just that little bit more equal, as witnessed by an Indigenous scheme that’s awarded more than $9bn, writes Mike O’Connor.
Religion is unfashionable and is under attack in a way that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago, writes Mike O’Connor.
Crowded roads, schools, hospitals and an ambulance service stretched to breaking point – we are now feeling the effects of an “open-door” migration policy, writes Mike O’Connor.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OPINION: Queensland and other states are complicit in the failed NDIS, which has become a $100m-a-day financial sinkhole, writes Mike O’Connor.
While politicians trade insults, the people of Brisbane suffer for the harsh truth that no one will acknowledge our road system is at breaking point, writes Mike O’Connor.
Portraying successful people to be the bad guys sends the wrong message to emerging generations of Australians, when the message should be financial rewards are honourable goals, writes Mike O’Connor.
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