Union wharfies on $170k a year hold nation to ransom
OPINION: One union can sit back and effectively shut down the country’s ports at an estimated cost of $84m a day and the Albanese government reckons that’s just fine, writes Mike O’Connor.
OPINION: One union can sit back and effectively shut down the country’s ports at an estimated cost of $84m a day and the Albanese government reckons that’s just fine, writes Mike O’Connor.
We’re smart enough to make up our own minds on how to celebrate our national day without any sermonising from the boardroom, writes Mike O’Connor.
OPINION: Asking Queenslanders to get behind the 2032 Games when the health system is failing and families are living in their cars is a bit rich, writes Mike O’Connor.
A rogues’ gallery including Ray Martin, Alan Joyce, Chris Bowen and Jacinda Ardern dominated a divisive year that we’re glad to see the back of, writes Mike O’Connor.
With an election near suddenly there is a housing crisis, a cost-of living crisis, an inflation crisis and an interest rate crisis. And of course the Federal Government cops the blame, writes Mike O’Connor.
They built the $200 million Wellcamp quarantine hub, but it looks like no one will come, writes Mike O’Connor. VOTE IN OUR POLL
If politicians are a reflection of society, we must be a pretty shabby lot who will vote for whoever promises to give us the most money, writes Mike O’Connor.
Forget policies and platforms, the Labor Party have sought to turn Anthony Albanese from the invisible man to the man of the people with this simple switch, writes Mike O’Connor.
Over a decade since one of the biggest farces in Queensland political history, innocent victims are still suffering the fallout, writes Mike O’Connor.
According to the rules, a recent meeting between the Premier’s former deputy chief of staff and minister Mick de Brenni must have been dull, writes Mike O’Connor.
In modern politics the focus is on image, which leaves us with the unenviable task of working out what the person stands for, writes Mike O’Connor.
Men and women now bash, burn, knife and bludgeon each other with sickening frequency. How did it all come to this, wonders Mike O’Connor.
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