Short week, short takes, Mr Acting Editor.
Take One, Senate: After 56 hours of Budget Debate up the Hill we get 22 more down the Hill. But it has its uses.
The first is practical. With two Cabinet Mi...
So often it’s the little things in life that seem to count the most, Mr Acting Editor, and the big ones not so much. Politics is no exception: things like feral chickens, garbage collection, roads and...
There’s no chimney on the House on the Hill, Mr. Acting Editor, so there’s no chance of ever seeing the smoke whether black, white or grey. We read and hear instead about the heat, sparked I am sure b...
As far as parliamentary debates go, Mr Acting Editor, the Budget Debate is by no means the Hill’s equivalent of ‘The Harlem Shake’. Not even close. Never was, and likely never will be. Not without som...
That was, Mr Acting Editor, some reality check (pun intended) and it is not one we will be able to cash any time soon. Public debt now stands at $1.469 billion and counting. Our new Government is proj...
Bob’s your uncle? Not on Budget Day 2013, Mr Acting Editor. The man has some job to do and I don’t envy him one bit. You could say that the new Finance Minister in a new Government is stuck between a ...
You know the saying, Mr Acting Editor, the more things change the more they stay the same. The Throne Speech ritual endured once again — with some minor variations. It was long, yes, (45 minutes or so...
It is practically an annual ritual, Mr Acting Editor, wishing and wondering what will be in the Throne Speech. Guesses and hopes make for interesting copy, but let’s also be realistic about what we ca...
Please, Mr Acting Editor, I do not mean to make light of the recent double murder and the outrage that has followed when I ask this question: how many times must we go around the political mulberry bu...
Let me go out on a limb this week, Mr Acting Editor. There are those who question (not unfairly) my apparent preoccupation with process. They think that we ought to be more concerned with turning the ...
