Henry Thornton News & Views No 29
I have been asked to talk on ‘inflation’, a subject that requires discussion of 'Macroeconomics’ and some coverage of major countries,...
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Pete Jonson
- Aug 5
- 12 min
Henry Thornton News & Views No 28
AFR, July 30-31, P1, Tom Burton, ‘Worst over’ for omicrom, flu waves’. ‘Australia appears to have avoided a much-feared simultaneous...
Pete Jonson
- Aug 2
- 14 min
Henry Thornton News&Views No 27
AFR Weekend, Longer COVID, 23 – 24 July, P 18, ‘The third pandemic wave is getting serious but to manage it we will need to overcome a...
Pete Jonson
- Jul 24
- 11 min
Henry Thornton News&Views No 26
AFR Weekend, 16-17 July, P1, ‘The jobs wave.’ ‘Unemployment is close to a 50-year low, skilled workers in hot demand and employers are...
Pete Jonson
- Jul 17
- 9 min
Henry Thornton News&Views No 25
The Aussie, July 9-10, P 11 and P 18, Paul Kelly, ‘Remote Indigenous communities are still racked by violence against women and...
Pete Jonson
- Jul 9
- 15 min
Henry Thornton News&Views No 24
Henry Thornton, Terrible shooting in Tokyo, July 9. Yesterday an assassin shot from behind the former and longest serving Japanese Prime...
Fiona Prior
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Moral compass for sale?
I guess the term ‘moral compass’ came into use because the terms being compared - good/bad, right/wrong - were polar opposites, and could...
Pete Jonson
- Jul 2
- 9 min
News&Views No 23
AFR, Editorial & Opinion, 25-26 June, P 42, ‘Australia needs to take a seat at the global table’. ‘Despite a torrid first few weeks in...
Pete Jonson
- May 25
- 6 min
News&Views Number 18
Dear readers, 22 May, ‘Change of management’. The Oz, May 21-22, Paul Kelly, ‘Crucial test of democracy’. Paul Kelly, Greg Sheridan and...
Fiona Prior
- Oct 4, 2021
- 2 min
Generation Covid
A generation generally refers to groups of people born within a 15 to 25-year span. It may also be defined by historic events. For...
Fiona Prior
- Aug 1, 2021
- 3 min
'Grrrrrrrr....'
Things that make me go ‘Grrrrrr’. It is strange to be in lockdown when so many cities in the world are approaching their post-lockdown,...