Tag: Crispin Hull
Crispin Hull / A Big Race: Fossil Profits v Transition
❝The race is between competing interests. On one hand we have the broad mass of the world’s people who do not want to experience the catastrophes associated with global heating: floods, fires, food and water scarcity and so on. On the other hand, we have big fossil energy corporations and the policy-makers in nations that have large reserves of fossil energy.❞
Crispin Hull / Back to Basics on the Voice
❝To put it crudely, it seems that the whitefellas opposing the Voice are concerned that it might give the blackfellas too much, and that the blackfellas opposing the Voice are concerned that it will not give them enough.❞
Crispin Hull / Why Millionaires Want to Pay More Tax
When b/millionaires cry out for higher taxes, it is a sure sign that the low-taxing, privatisation, out-sourcing model has gone too far. The question for Australia is can the Labor Government change direction and do it quickly enough so the benefits become apparent before it faces the electorate?
Crispin Hull / Upsetting Money Launderers and Gaming Profiteers
The whole gaming “industry” in NSW, and other states, is propped up by laundering illegally obtained cash and the immoral plucking of addicted gamblers. Hitherto, state governments have been equally addicted to the tax revenues.
Crispin Hull / On Why We Should Vote Yes to the Voice. And the Use of ‘Like’ in Language.
Crispin Hull shares his weekly op-ed on why we should vote Yes to the Voice….”surely after more than two centuries of dispossession; marginalisation; and attempted extermination by force or assimilation we (everyone who has the right to vote) can acknowledge the Indigenous people of Australia in a clause in the Constitution and that they should have a means of expressing their views on matters of concern to them and that those views should be listened to…”
Crispin Hull / Bluffing the Fossil Fuel Industry and Gambling with Gaming
Crispin Hull shares his weekly op-ed on politics bluffing the fossil fuel industry and gambling with gaming…
Crispin Hull / On the Corrosion and Collapse of Public Service Policy Repair, Maintenance and Scrutiny
Crispin Hull shares his weekly op-ed on the corrosion of Public Service policy repair, maintenance, and scrutiny over the past 25 years, resulting in a slow collapse in public health, public education, and welfare.
Crispin Hull / On Opposition to the Voice to Parliament
Crispin Hull shares his weekly op-ed on the Liberal Party’s failure to support the Voice to Parliament, describing their willingness to accept well-funded voices while denying the Indigenous one as hypocrisy.
Crispin Hull / Ticking Time Bomb for Australian Political Parties
The major-party vote continues to trickle away as mainly women and younger people take their vote elsewhere because their values have changed. Before long some major realignment seems inevitable.
Crispin Hull / Boycotting FIFA World Cup 2022
The Republicans…wanted to overturn the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Rove v Wade which stated that the 14th amendment to the US Constitution (the right to privacy) nullified any legislative attempt by any of the states to restrict abortion.