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John Hewson

Contributor at Sydney Morning Herald

Contributor at The Saturday Paper

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  • 1 week ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

    Now the election is finally over and the parties and candidates have settled down to their new realities, national priorities must be afforded their proper place. The election campaign focused too much on short-term offerings for voters – there was little discussion of what the respective leaders wanted our country to be in the coming decades.

  • 2 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

    The memes began with, “We need to talk.” Then the internet lit up with a flood of break-up staples providing a weary electorate with perhaps some much-needed comic relief. “We’ve grown apart.” “We want different things.” And of course, frighteningly, “I think we should start seeing other people.” By Thursday, the 80-year relationship could be best described as “off again, on again”. What does this all mean?

  • 3 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

    Unfortunately, the old campaign funding laws mean we need to wait several months for details of the money involved in this month’s election. The promised real-time exposure will make a significant difference in the future. Voters will know where the money is coming from and where it’s being spent as the election campaign unfolds.

  • 4 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

    As editor of the British tabloid rag The Sun in the 1980s, Kelvin MacKenzie had a favourite description of how to make the lives of public figures unpleasant – his journalists were instructed to “stick a ferret up their trousers”.

  • 4 weeks ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

    As editor of the British tabloid rag The Sun in the 1980s, Kelvin MacKenzie had a favourite description of how to make the lives of public figures unpleasant – his journalists were instructed to “stick a ferret up their trousers”.

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