People & associates
John Roskam
Rule by nods and winks
The idea that anyone, let alone the government, has a clue about what the internet will look like in eight years' time is preposterous. In 2001 we...
Big and getting bigger
Kevin Rudd would have felt right at home at the Group of 20 summit. He was in the city where political spin was invented. And he was joined by the...
PM mars nation's image
Australia needs more diplomats, says a report released this week by the Lowy Institute. It seems even Iceland has more overseas representatives...
Boss bashers need a mirror
As Australia enters a recession, one of the country's favourite pastimes has begun. Boss bashing has started in earnest. The government, the...
Rudd
According to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, something is ‘‘pathetic'' if it invokes ‘‘pity or sadness or contempt''....
Rudd's rush is unseemly
In the past few days we've learnt that Kevin Rudd doesn't much like what he calls ‘‘free-market fundamentalism''. It seems, though,...
Wage rises will cost jobs
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. These words of wisdom came from Rahm Emanuel, Barack Obama's chief of staff, last November. Rahm...
Business plays the patsy
What are business organizations for? Do they exist so their chief executives can sit on government advisory boards and have afternoon cocktails at...
Talking down v acting up
There's an old saying: ‘‘If you keep your head while all those around you are losing theirs, you don't understand the situation.'' It's...
NZ gets its ACT together
New Zealand's electoral system might be completely incomprehensible, but it does have some benefits. At the election last weekend, the ACT party,...