David Fagan
Freelance Contributor at Freelance
Author Has The Luck Run Out?, plays and follows music, used to run newspapers and digital progeny. Advises others, director of Carers Qld, QMusic and the Ekka
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Feb 27, 2025 |
palatinate.org.uk | David Fagan
By David FaganLeading a weakened Conservative Party into opposition after fourteen years of government was never going to be easy. More than 100 days into her leadership, Kemi Badenoch is facing increased scrutiny after a series of poor performances at Prime Minister’s Questions. PMQs is an opportunity for Ms Badenoch to challenge Sir Keir Starmer by raising policy issues, exploiting his weaknesses and positioning her party as a credible alternative.
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Aug 13, 2024 |
thenewdaily.com.au | David Fagan
Paris has done its job. We’re all bleary-eyed from early morning gold but in a better mood, helped in Brisbane by a sunny start to the Ekka where the smiles (even in the rain) match the hopes we should now have for our own Games. The Paris Olympics (with the Paralympics still to come) have been a showpiece – not just for Australia but the world that has put its angst on hold for 10 days to turn its attention to sports rarely recognised and, in some cases, pretty well unheard of.
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Jul 16, 2024 |
thenewdaily.com.au | David Fagan
Just 0.02 per cent. A tiny, tiny proportion but the degree of error or fortune that spared both Donald Trump and the world facing an entirely different outlook this week. That tiny proportion empowers a defiant Trump to continue to face down the forces that a large, large proportion of Americans think are arraigned against him. And them.
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Jun 25, 2024 |
thenewdaily.com.au | David Fagan
Peter Dutton pledged last year we would see a different side of the abrasive and unforgiving characteristics needed to accompany the tough guy portfolios he’d occupied over a decade of ministerial office. Instead he’s shown us an even more arrogant streak, unaccompanied by either necessity or authority. Pity, because that other side exists even if it’s too rarely visible.
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Jun 4, 2024 |
thenewdaily.com.au | David Fagan
Few people sign up to lifetime commitments in their 60s, 80s or 90s. Murdoch has done all three. In life, like business, Murdoch has belief that things can last forever – or at least a very long time. His serial “groomsmanship” is evidence of that. As evidence, here’s a reflection from one of my personal interactions with Murdoch while editing his Queensland newspapers. This one happened in the boardroom of The Courier-Mail offices in Bowen Hills, a rare visit necessitated by an urgent decision.
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I wrote a book, Has the Luck Run Out?, about institutional failure in Australia. No one is exempt and the PwC tax cheat shows us we are right to become more and more distrustful, a theme well explored by @madonna king in this column https://t.co/gI8irF2vLl
Youth crime is claiming our attention but in my column for InQueensland this week, I look at when the crime that mattered was run by the cops. WARNING: Contains references that make little sense if you’re 50 or younger. https://t.co/uVCpwXsGYM
Noisy neighbours, sloppy tradies or unending phone queues? Patience is the only response - not just a virtue but a necessity. My column for In Queensland this week. Home of the state’s best journalists, free and informative Craig Johnstone Madonna King https://t.co/mH7n7JheTU