Travelling further than Oatlands …

After four hours sleep last night, I was awoken by a call from a prospective voter concerned about my genealogy. She implied...

Not again …

I note The Examiner has again chosen to disadvantage my campaign for election to the Launceston City Council by refusing to acknowledge...

Budget avoids tackling the hard issues

The absence of an articulated strategy to tackle spiralling public sector costs could damage Tasmania’s credit rating and set the economy up...

Government must come clean on support for Gunns

Premier Lara Giddings must come clean on what financial support her Government has promised timber group Gunns, a Tasmanian analyst said today....

Aurora: The wisdom of hindsight…

The following was published in The Examiner five years ago in my column The Business Edge. At the time, Aurora would have...

My sharp new sunglasses …

Day Two 19 Jan 11 09:49 AM Posted by Tom Ellison An easy 25km to Legana and back, and only passed by...

AFL – Economic saviour, or financial disaster?

A couple of years ago, I released some modelling into the likely economic benefits of hosting AFL games in Tasmania. My findings,...

Forestry: We were warned …

Tom Ellison, then finance writer for The Examiner, raised the alarm bells about Forestry Tasmania’s dismal performance in 2006. He wrote then...

Superannuation changes; too little, too late. The Kohler analysis

LIFTING the superannuation guarantee rate to 12 per cent isn’t nearly enough to address a critical shortfall in retirement savings, according to...

Restraint, not pork barrelling