Pollies, please don’t tell us what cars to drive
In a vast country like Australia, where people love their SUVs and V8 utes, it’s going to be a long time before the population broadly embraces electric vehicles.
In a vast country like Australia, where people love their SUVs and V8 utes, it’s going to be a long time before the population broadly embraces electric vehicles.
If you’re an aging, white male in Australia, you’re expected not to voice your views on anything these days, let alone on big issues like the flag.
The AFL is too TV focused, money hungry and consumed with rule changes to replace Gillon McLachlan with a man of the people like Richmond’s Brendon Gale.
Serious issues in Indigenous communities like poverty, domestic violence and substance abuse won’t be helped by making schools fly the Aboriginal flag.
The bitter exchange of insults and accusations that aired on radio revealed a real truth rarely spoken – Neil Mitchell and Eddie McGuire hate each other.
Attracting tourists is hard enough without thinking they’ve arrived in some broken down sh–hole that doesn’t care.
The same Premier who readily called the shots when it came to locking us up six times now has the gall to claim mask mandates aren’t up to him.
The colour teal is associated with an AFL club, not just newly elected politicians, and the independents may just have a bit in common with Port Adelaide.
It may be too late to save our stricken capital but Premier Daniel Andrews could try by appointing a minister for Melbourne. If he “had any guts” he’d take the job himself.
Australians’ reluctance to gamble on their political leaders might just save Scott Morrison but the real election shock would be if the independents get in.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/steve-price/page/12