Henry Thornton Home Page
"Economics is like growing cabbages; there is no limit on entry and a lot of marginal producers," Austin Holmes
PD Jonson
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email

TP Maher
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email

Nick Raffan
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email

Louis Hissink
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email

Gary Scarrabelotti
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email

Henry Thornton
Articles Articles
Comments Comment
Email Me Email
ALL CONTRIBUTORS
Henry Thornton - Contributors: A discussion of economic, social and political issues Tiresias
In Greek mythology, the original Tiresias was the blind prophet of Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.

The new Tiresias was born in Sydney in 1967. Educated at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, he worked as a casual tutor in politics before joining the Australian Public Service in Canberra.

A former teenage neo-liberal and Thatcherite, he has also been a workplace delegate in the Community and Public Sector Union, where has he has done a little bit of good assisting individual members dealing with bullying and harassment. In his opinion the central task facing Australia is how to have the best of all possible worlds: a market economy embedded within a stable, bourgeois society, which offers its members the widest possible variety of meaningful and worthwhile life-choices and that maintains a Western culture under the protection of a government resistant to social engineers within and the UN, NGOs etc without.

Tiresias studies classical Greek in his spare time and is about to publish a PhD thesis on an early Enlightenment political philosopher.

 
Email Me Email   Request Second Opinion »
Yoursay - Monetary Policy Reva...
Fine idea, but the present government could never pull such a tax off. Given the fiasco of t »
Date: 13/01/2013
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Yoursay - Green thuggery and w...
A straightforward condemnation of Senators Milne and Rhiannon from the PM is both essential »
Date: 09/01/2013
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Yoursay - on submarines #1...
A fur coat to hide Australia's rags »
Date: 23/11/2012
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Asian languages…some modest pr...
Further to your Blog today on the fatuous and gaseous White Paper, here is a practical contr »
Date: 30/10/2012
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

The Andrew Bolt Showtrial...
Where this will end, I do not know, but it won’t be good. In a world of angry, overcrowded, »
Date: 30/09/2011
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(1)

Potlatch in Drongoland: no dog...
Foreign aid is all about poor people in rich countries paying money to rich people in poor o »
Date: 14/10/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Free speech on trial...
Democratic Europe’s first political trial since end of Cold War resumes in Netherlands. »
Date: 07/10/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Is the ‘free-trade’ lipstick s...
People do eventually notice that labelling crooked trade deals as ‘free trade’ is as pointle »
Date: 06/10/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(1)

The SAS prosecutions: a legal ...
The current prosecution of junior soldiers from the SAS regiment for manslaughter et cetera »
Date: 29/09/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Beyond the burqa...
The burqa and everything that it stands for is now a major issue. It is in our national int »
Date: 22/09/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Through a glass very darkly (p...
... America’s global prospects for the 21st century. »
Date: 03/09/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Australia's political mess...
The Magic Pudding of the resources boom and resulting trade surplus enable all manner of sel »
Date: 03/09/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(1)

Through a glass very darkly (p...
... America’s domestic prospects for the 21st century »
Date: 01/09/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

When the electoral dust settle...
... what the Coalition should do, but probably won't. »
Date: 25/08/2010
Author: Tiresias of Canberra
(0)

Showing 1 - 14 of 26
« PREVIOUS   | [1] | 2| |   NEXT »
LOGIN
For member services:
Forgot Password?
FRIENDS OF HENRY
MacroBusiness Blog »
MacroBusiness Blog
Online Opinion »
Online Opinion
Roy Morgan Research »
Roy Morgan Research

Other sites we like »
MEMBERSHIP IS FREE
Membership to
henrythornton.com
is FREE and the benefits, are overwhelming!
  GOLDMEMBERSHIP  
ONLY AUD $55.00 pa
Show your real colours and signup as a
proud, card carrying friend of Henry
 
HOME | NEWS + Views | Economics | Politics | Investments | Corporate | SMERSH | Lifestyle | FORUM | SIGN UP
Sydney web design by Sydney web design by Wiliam web developer
© 2009. henrythornton.com Pty Limited. All Rights Reserved. The Herald Tribune is powered by the New York Times.