Jeremy Cordeaux tells South Australia’s Premier he has misread the public mood over felling parkland trees for an elite golf tournament, and urges him to back up while he can.
The government bought more fuel but never worked out where to store it. Jeremy Cordeaux says we now pay up to $60,000 a day to leave tankers parked off the coast.
Ben Carroll has promised ten free dental clinics before the Victorian election. Jeremy Cordeaux asks what a broke state will use for money, and where the dentists will come from.
More than 45,000 people signed the “Stop the Chop” petition, carried book by book up Parliament House steps. Jeremy Cordeaux says it is people power the government ignores at its peril.
Tobacco excise revenue has collapsed from $16.3 billion to $4 billion while illicit smokes supply 80% of the market. Jeremy Cordeaux says the policy created the black market.
Jeremy Cordeaux says David Speers turned a reasonable point about skilled visas into a “new member goes rogue” headline, and warns One Nation to stop being naive with a hostile press.
In 2006 Peter Costello declared Australia debt-free and set up the Future Fund. Jeremy Cordeaux asks how the country went from a surplus to a trillion dollars of debt.
Federal debt has passed $1 trillion, a one with twelve zeros. Jeremy Cordeaux breaks down the $569 million a week in interest and asks how long the country can pay it.
From the Great White Fleet’s welcome to Sydney and Churchill’s finest line to Phyllis Diller and Jerry Lewis, Jeremy Cordeaux marks everything that happened on 20 August.
Strathfield, where Jeremy Cordeaux grew up, is the first council to require English on shop signs. He calls it plain common sense, and asks how any country would differ.