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In my column in The Australian this morning I focus on one of the key government mistakes: ordering the NBN to roll out cable to the door of every home in a multiple dwelling unit instead of dropping the cable at the entrance to the building and leaving the rest to the body corporate:Wiring up a Brownfields MDU (what we might call an old block of flats) generally requires the co-operation of a body corporate, an organisation pathologically incapable of replacing a light bulb in the lobby, let alone installing Fibre Access Network Architecture (FANA) from an Optical Distribution Frame (ODF).Curmudgeonly body corporates or frustrated MDUs as they are technically known were the bane of Conroy s life until he resigned as communications minister in June. [FULL ARTICLE]Share this: WHEN the last major review of the ABC s purpose was conducted, Malcolm Fraser was prime minister, the Internet was science fiction and Leigh Sales had barely started high school. As I write in The Australian today, the ABC might be nervous about an inquiry on the scale of the Dix Review commissioned by a Coalition government, but it should not be.The best way to head off suggestions, very much alive on the Right, that the ABC should be sold off is to demonstrate that public broadcasting has a serious role to play in the cultural life of the nation.For that to happen, the ABC Act must be amended, and the corporation s charter reviewed.[FULL ARTICLE]Share this: The National Disability Insurance Scheme is supposed to cut through the bureaucratic red tape that blights the lives of the recipients of brute bad fortune. As I write in The Australian today, whether it actually does so is another question altogether:IF you are confined to a wheelchair at the age of 29,[url=http://www.ugg-boots-sale.org]cheap ugg[/url], it should not take a year to get the lock on the front door moved to a height where you can reach it.A child of 4 1/2 with chronic cerebral palsy should be entitled to a powered wheelchair and if there is a rule that says she does not get one until she turns five, anyone with an ounce of common sense would be prep #file_links[D:\keywords14.txt,1,S] ared to bend it.Advocates of the National Disability Insurance Scheme invite us to believe that these and countless other lived experiences of official intransigence will be solved once the NDIS is introduced at a cost of $14.5 billion a year.There is a catch, and it is rather a large one. The bureaucracy-busting National Disability Insurance Agency, the body set up to help cut through the red tape, will itself be run by bureaucrats.We can only hope that these bureaucrats will be unlike any others we know and that they will be dedicated to reducing suffering, not increasing it. [FULL ARTICLE]Share this: In The Sunday Times this week, I report on Tony Abbott s plans to take on political correctness and the attempts to dismantle the machinery of the nanny state: AUSTRALIA’S new conservative government has begun a purge of state-sponsored political correctness, vowing to reverse the intrusion of the nanny state into everyday life.Tony Abbott became prime minister three weeks ago after being elected on a platform opposing “Big Brother government” that nudges its citizens to make “appropriate” lifestyle choices Supporters #file_links[D:\keywords12.txt,1,S] say Abbott wants to take moral decisions away from government: the aim is to denationalise morality and deregulate private behaviour much as Margaret Thatcher denationalised industry and wound back state intervention in Britain’s economy. [FULL ARTICLE]Share this: TONY Abbott s government is up for a fight in the arena of ideas. Senior party figures recognise in retrospect that the Howard government should have fought harder to dismantle the infrastructure that has supported to the progressive project.Before 2007,[url=http://www.ugg-boots-sale.org]cheap uggs[/url], however, the boundaries were less clear. The Rudd and Gillard government s willingness to embrace the nanny state and their submission to the principles of political correctness have served to illuminate the fault line. As I write in The Australian today:Under Tony Abbott, there will be zero tolerance for evangelism on the public purse on anthropogenic global warming or any other matter.When it comes to what is lazily described as the culture wars, the progressives have been kicking sand in the faces of liberal democrats for more than 40 years Labor returned to power in 2007 with a somewhat romantic view of the state, believing that its instruments could be used to teach its citizens how to behave. From teenage binge-drinking to finding the cheapest place for petrol, the all-benevolent hand of the federal government was where wisdom would reside.As George Brandis explained to the Sydney Institute this year, the democratic Left is an unreliable ally in defence of economic liberties, but up to now it had at least championed civil liberties. Today, it is the self-styled progressives of the Left who want to ban things, said Brandis. They want to eliminate the expression of opinions which they find offensive. [FULL ARTICLE HERE]Share this: Jonathan Haidt s brilliant book The Righteous Mind should be required post-election reading for Labor s thinkers. Haidt, a social psychologist, offers a convincing explanation for why the Left in the United States no speaks to the values of middle America.In my review of Haidt s book last June, I noted the same phenomena was occurring in Australia where the Coalition had become the natural home for working families:H #file_links[D:\keywords11.txt,1,S] aidt explores the intersection between morality and politics and, if he is right, Labor, like the US Democrats, is losing touch with human nature, and divisive class-war tactics will only make matters worse. Haidt concludes we are born to be righteous and that political and moral choices are closely linked. The progressive Left s failure is that it has not learnt what it needs to be righteous about Haidt identifies six moral virtues touched by politics,[url=http://www.ugg-boots-sale.org]ugg outlet[/url], the taste buds of the righteous mind : care, fairness, loyalty, authority, #file_links[D:\keywords13.txt,1,S] sanctity and liberty. The dish served up by the progressive Left satisfies three of these instincts at most, leaving the other half for conservatives to feast on.[FULL ARTICLE]Share this: Grant-seeking in the not-for-profit sector has become an industry in itself, complete with its own sub-group of experts ready to advise community groups how to better twist the arms of government and private philanthropists, I write in The Australian today.The grant-seeker s trade magazine, Third Sector, publishes tips. Not-for-profit consultant Frank Spranger recommends assigning a manager to routinely review federal and state government websites for new grants and tenders that could be relevant to y #file_links[D:\keywords15.txt,1,S] our organisation .Peggy Hailstone, who describes herself as a professional grant writer, writes about grant-seeking trends in the April edition, advising that capacity-building is particularly big this year: 2013 offers an excellent opportunity to progress your grant-seeking, she writes. Will you take up the challenge or let it slide past? The Australian National Preventive Health Agency, a creation of Nicola Roxon, has become a grant-seeking magnate for community not-for-profit organisations which devise ridiculous ways of encouraging responsible drinking:Incolink, the union-dominated body that manages redundancy payments for construction workers, scored $300,000 for its Drink Safe Mate project, which will help young workers learn to handle the grog using a capacity-building approach . The Multicultural Centre for Women s Health in Victoria also went for capacity-building, intending to use its cheque for $492,267 to improve the capacity of young people from immigrant and refugee backgrounds to reduce their risk of alcohol-related harm . The organisation Youthsafe opted for a resilience-based binge drinking project that must still be in the early stages, since we are told it will cost $356,678 to develop, deliver and evaluate.Bathurst Regional Council was given $495,071 for its Smashed Arts project, which will engage young people in the Bathurst region by providing health education messages .The Western Sydney Alcohol Awareness Initiative scored $95,439 to train young people in the Penrith area to produce videos for their peers promoting the harms of binge drinking .When it comes to dishing out public money in the cause of preventive health, no multifaceted early intervention approach or awareness-raising initiative is too questionable to dismiss.[FULL ARTICLE]Share this: Abbott s cultural critics struggle to see anything coherent, let alone virtuous, in his philosophy, I wrote in The Australian last week. Yet rarely has a conservative leader presented a manifesto with such grounded philosophical underpinnings.His repeated reference to a state that favours lifters over leaners comes from Robert Menzies Forgotten People radio talk, delivered in 1942, in which Menzies contrasts the socialist dystopia of Chifley and John Curtin with his classical liberal ideals.As Menzies put it, leaners grow flabby; lifters grow muscles . Many of my friends will retort, Ah, that s all very well, but when this war is over the levellers will have won the day. But I do not believe that we shall come out into the overlordship of an all-powerful state on whose benevolence we shall live, spineless and effortless; a state which will dole out bread and ideas with neatly regulated accuracy; where we shall all have our dividend without subscribing our capital. If the new world is to be a world of men, we must be not pallid and bloodless ghosts, but a community of people whose motto shall be: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Individual enterprise must drive us forward. Read the full article here.In The Weekend Australian on Saturday I noted that despite some disappointing results for the Liberals in western Sydney, the party drove deeper into Labor s former heartland where the primary vote of both parties is equal both are on 43 per cent across 15 seats in the west and north-west suburbs.Abbott s Menzian rhetoric goes down well in the west:Counter to received political wisdom, the people of western Sydney appear not to be looking for handouts. They are less likely to collect all major categories of welfare, with the exception of the Youth Allowance. Nationally, one in 11 adults are on the Newstart Allowance; in western Sydney it is one in 23.Read the full article here.Share this: Rudd s technocratic dreams were his great undoing, I write on spiked today. No wonder the technocrat s journal The Economist is backing him.From the vantage point of its offices in LondonThe Economist presumes to possess either knowledge more perfect or judgement more reasonable that the citizens of Australia.The Economist has fallen for the technocratic delusion that Friedrich Hayek examines in The Use of Knowledge in Society, an essay Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says helped inspire him to create his collaborative encyclopedia. Hayek, writing in 1945, notes that it had become fashionable to downplay the wisdom of the streets and assume that the experts, armed with lumps of aggregated information, knew best. Yet, as he pointed out, ‘these facts are never so given to a single mind’, which is why commentators, like central planners, so often get it wrong. It is hardly surprising that an international magazine, so remote from the world it describes, should fall for the technocrat’s delusion, nor that by doing so, it should find itself backing Rudd, the supreme technocrat. [FULL ARTICLE...] Share this:
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