“The historical and political ride of the decade” – Bob Carr “The book is totally unpredictable, shot through with zany and erudite qualities. Like a river in Australia’s tropical north, it overflows its banks in all directions. But any reader should fasten their seat-belt, because this is the historical and political ride of the decade,…
Gladys Berejiklian has quit State Parliament and politics, after heading a NSW Liberal Party centre-right administration for six years. Her legacy is a NSW Liberal Party right-wing Government. She has departed to the sound of sobbing and mourning by her band of rusted-on supporters. But the vast majority of people in NSW were left bewildered…
Break open the champagne and let celebrations commence! Washington DC’s Congress has averted a government shutdown, costing millions of jobs and cutting cash to millions of welfare programmes. How did they do it? A couple of hours before midnight on Thursday, September 30, 2021, the US Senate and the House of Representatives passed a $US…
With everyone I know searching for a job – part-time or full-time, casual or permanent, at home or at a workplace – it is nice to see that the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has taken up the challenge. Let’s not call it Job Finder (that name is already taken), let’s call it God Finder. The…
My brother, Anthony John Mitchell, has died in Brisbane while in palliative care from cancer. He was 81. Tony was born on 22 August, 1939, one of four boys whose parents were Jim and Lucy Mitchell. Before their marriage, Lucy Gladys Wilesmith was a member of a pioneering family from the Herberton area of far…
Just over 12 months ago, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian was Australia’s most popular premier, the NSW economy was leading the nation, employment was picking up and interest rates were at a record low. But then the wheels fell off. Premier Berejiklian dreamt of a farewell which was wrapped in good news for the voters of…
Eight Cabinet Ministers are in the Melbourne Cup field of wannabees to become the 49th Premier of NSW. In keeping with NSW Liberal Party tradition all the runners are male and white. All of them are from Sydney, and the majority had a private education at fee-paying private schools. Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, MP for Epping…
BOOK REVIEW Abe Saffron, the king of Sydney’s vice rackets, had a long friendship with Dudley Doherty, a top spy with the Australian Secret Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). Doherty used his accountancy skills to draw up a false set of books for Saffron’s racketeering to evade taxation, a criminal offence. They went to brothels together, shared…
Watching life ebb from the premiership of Gladys Berejiklian requires a strong stomach because it is a most terrible experience, rather like seeing someone running out of breath. After keeping a daily record of the scandals raining down on her political career, the question keeps surfacing: “Why does she do it? Why hang around while…
Is Gladys Berejiklian waving? No, she’s drowning. Her premiership has been struck amidships by a tidal wave of scandal. She can run fast but history shows that the scandals, once they start, will run even faster. In this hyper-charged environment, leaking and back-stabbing take over over from loyalty and obedience. You won’t find integrity among…
