I AM writing this view on the day the Coalition seems to be falling apart. There is a clear policy divide between the city Liberal Party and the regional National Party which looks like divorce for that union. The city party is saying the legislation that it supported in the Senate helped the government get […]
THE way the weather is at the present time, we have the opportunity to remain inside and see what new changes have been made to contracts for our largest expenditures. Our Council rates are a good starting point and despite the barrier to cost increases, (IPART etc.) they only seem to climb each year, usually […]
AT THIS really busy time of the year for local businesses, things are often conducted in quick fashion, with lines of tourists ready and anxious to do their shopping so they can get back to the beach or enjoy what they came here to achieve. Best practice can become lost in that rush. Tourism often […]
NEW Year – New Aspirations. Rather than going over the trials and tribulations of last year, I prefer to look ahead with renewed vigour in order to see what our society can do better, in order to make improvements to our way of life. The area that offends me greatly, and needs to be corrected […]
INTERESTING headlines from the USA this week: “Billionaire sounds alarm on US economy’s ‘death spiral’”. That certainly gained my attention after a 40-year career in the finance game, including many years working in the USA and Switzerland plus a number of other western and Asian nations. Fortunately, this headline looks to be publicity for a […]
IT was US President Kennedy that said voters should think about what is good for their country rather than the selfish option of asking “what’s in it for me”. I don’t know if my fellow Aussies are that way inclined at present, so I set my thought processes to look harder at what is being […]
