Jack Waterford

Coronavirus not only effects the elderly and cooperation on the part of the young is the key to beating COVID-19. Perhaps we need Grim Reaper ads to highlight the risk to their own. (more…)

Poor messaging and own-goals killing flu strategy (more…)

Officials are not independent. They are more loyal to ministers than the public need for information (more…)

The US already has a two-tier health system: when the disease takes hold in the general population, many of its facilities will be swamped, with only the wealthy able to be sure of proper treatment. (more…)

We are not ‘fighting’ the virus but staging a skilful retreat. (more…)

Jack Waterford writes on the life and legacy Len Hewitt, former secretary of the Prime Minister and feared government man. (more…)

One miracle is all he can hope for: now he needs something new to sell to a public that sees through him.The nation needs a leader it can respect (more…)

WHY does Peter Dutton and  the Home Affairs Department need more high -tech powers  when the real problem of sex abuse is in the home? (more…)

Sundry crime bodies in the home affairs portfolio, operating in the new co-ordinated mode, are proving indefatigable in their search for extra powers to conduct cyber warfare against Australian criminals. (more…)

We need an inquiry into how public service stewards provide dubious alibis for ministers (more…)

Donald Trump is in trouble on so many fronts now that minor set-backs of practical administration probably do not pre-occupy him much. But there was interesting case in the US District Court  recently that has the potential for Australian consequences while Australian senators have a rump of independents and minor parties capable of joining with an opposition to block legislation. (more…)

From Scott Morrison, I would never buy a used car, or (probably) a political party. As a direct liar or dissembler, he, among politicians, is only of fair average quality. (more…)

Sports rorts, scandals, climate inaction and contempt for public interest show a robber mentality.   (more…)

The winner-takes-all approach to grants involves corrupt ideas of government, even if no crime occurred. It is an abuse of power (more…)

Must we follow Trump down his Iranian rabbit burrow? (more…)

PM can’t find the fitting gesture or demonstrate our solidarity with bushfire victims. (more…)

Australia can’t much influence Trump, or Hong Kong or Boris.  The more reason he should be working on what he can change (more…)

Time for detailing how conservative policies could improve the nation (more…)

Austrac’s record on remittance scrutiny looks as lamentable as Westpac’s (more…)

If integrity commissions shouldn’t ask nasty questions in public, why can, and do, royal commissions? (more…)

Did Morrison win that election? Or did Labor simply blow it? (more…)