by Jim Ball | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog, Nuclear Energy, Random Notes
A short and sweet pithy missive in todays Australian. “..Energy crisis? No country with uranium reserves such as ours has the right to complain of an energy crisis. The only obstacle to developing a nuclear power industry is ignorance..” Graham Hood,... by Jim Ball | Dec 12, 2016 | Blog, Culture, Multiculturalism, Random Notes, Society, Society and culture |
“…..For the past 40 years, Western immigration policy has been based on multicultural ideology. Its consequence is clear: Islamism has become a Western condition. Successive governments have diluted Western values to the point where they are no longer... by Jim Ball | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog, Debt, Economy, Random Notes
Thinking about the “when” rather than “if” prospect of the international credit agencies like S&P, Moody’s and Fitch et al turning down the wick on Australia’s triple A credit rating, it occurs to me that these agencies are the same credit agencies that rated... by Jim Ball | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog, Random Notes |
Reading a lot about the resignation of New Zealand PM John Key and how he steered NZ successfully over the last 8 years. What seems to be forgotten or ignored is that New Zealand doesn’t have a delicately poised senate to negotiate and navigate. Therein lies the... 
by Jim Ball | Dec 6, 2016 | Blog, Random Notes, What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Greg Sheridan’s article about Donald Trump accepting a phone call from the President of Taiwan was very interesting (“The right call on Taiwan trumps Obama”, 5/12). Trump’s decision to accept the call may be his way of sending a message to the Chinese and... by Jim Ball | Dec 4, 2016 | Blog, Random Notes |
The passing of the ABCC legislation is something of a hollow victory for the Turnbull government as the Derryn Hinch, inspired master stroke amendment, delaying the implementation of the serious application of its intent to existing workplace agreements until the end...