Observations

Studies, Committees, Senate Reports and PhD’s all have one thing in common…99 percent of them are completely irrelevant and produce nothing we did not already know. Politicians and business ‘leaders’ speak in clichés, and when a real answer is demanded escape to ‘as I understand it’ or defer the question entirely to ‘after a Committee has reported on the issue’. One of the reasons Common Sense is so Uncommon is the need to appease every minor voice, dissenting or otherwise. Unless of course it is the vast majority of PhD’s whose sole purpose are to meet quotas and lift University rankings.  Everyone knows Nokia failed because they stopped watching the mobile phone market (now the smartphone market, but they missed the name change) and yet their top executives believe they did nothing wrong, and cry themselves into stupidity at press conferences. Everyone knows that government departments, on the whole, are top heavy and waste millions of dollars on salaries not req...

When news of Brexit hit the media almost exactly one week prior to our election last Saturday, my first thought was that this will guarantee a Coalition victory on July 2 nd . But it didn’t. Why not? Why should it have? The first reaction from the world to the Brexit news was to sell shares and buy gold, a very conservative reaction to uncertainty that occurs like clockwork whenever people feel out of control. There was also widespread reporting of wailing and gnashing of teeth amongst the populace in the UK at the unheralded uncertainty of it all, increasing the price of gold even further. When uncertainty strikes, people flee to what they know and the status quo wins wherever it exists. So why didn’t the Coalition win last Saturday, as people stuck with ‘certainty’, as I predicted they would by 52 percent to 48 percent? Political apathy and disillusionment. We are now hearing of ‘recriminations’ among the Federal Liberal Party, which is another way of saying ...