Paul Bongiorno: Medicare is latest victim of government health bungles
The shambles that has become a hallmark of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and quarantine has hit Medicare, putting thousands of operations in...
Paul Bongiorno: The Morrison government is losing the race against a fast-mutating pandemic
The news out of Victoria is a chilling indictment of the failure of Australia’s national government to face up to the challenges...
Paul Bongiorno: Byelection spin ignores some real lessons
The art of politics as we know is spinning reality in such a way that perceptions become more influential than what is...
Paul Bongiorno: Playing cat and mouse on tax serves the nation poorly
Less than 24 hours after delivering the biggest budget debt whopper in history, the government began attacking Labor over its doubts about...
Paul Bongiorno: A budget of fantasy figures and questionable commitments
Let’s face it, all budgets are political theatre based on assumptions prepared by the treasury to suit the plot devised by their...
Paul Bongiorno: The government is a Liberal in Labor’s clothing with this budget
The pandemic has stress-tested the economic principles that have shaped the responses of Australia’s Coalition parties for at least the past two...
Paul Bongiorno: The government delivers more hypocrisy to the nation
The brouhaha over Christine Holgate’s $20,000 gift of watches to fat cat Australia Post executives is more of the double standards and...
Paul Bongiorno: NDIS vaccine failure unmasks the government’s disability agenda
Something is horribly amiss when thousands of Australians with serious disability have not received their first COVID shots eight weeks into the...
Paul Bongiorno: Not even the states can save the Morrison government from itself this time
There’s something smug about the reaction of the federal government and its health advisers who believe the disaster they are presiding over...
Paul Bongiorno: Shuffling deck chairs can’t save sinking ship
Scott Morrison has gone into marketing overdrive, painting a reshuffle that saw no new faces in his ministry as a regeneration. Priority...