by Patrick J. Byrne The Federal Government is yet to produce a coherent plan to deal with huge challenges: threats from Beijing’s aggressive nationalism, major global supply chain disruptions and more company failures. Prime Minister Scott Morrison has brought trade unions to the workplace reform table. In some ways, it demonstrates the powerlessness of unions. They are looking to regain influence and standing…

AN OLD PERSON’S OBSERVATION In the era between World War II and the mid 1970s, Australia could manufacture a vast range of products – planes, cars, ships and a million things in between. Practically anything we wanted could be made in Australia. Here we are in 2020 and, after selling our industries to mainly Chinese interests, all we can make now is fools…

by Patrick J. Byrne PART ONE OF TWO PARTS (Read the second part here) Covid19 (or SARS-CoV-2) is a new coronavirus related to the common cold that emerged from China in December 2019. It is a separate species of virus from the annual flu virus, or influenza. The Lancet (March 30, 2020) reported an overall infection fatality rate of between approximately 0.4 and…