John Hewson

Contributor at Sydney Morning Herald

Contributor at The Saturday Paper

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Dutton and the real hate media

1 week 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”.
The Coalition and the real hate media

1 week 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”.
The debt trap of defence spending

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

One of the great disappointments of our election campaign has been the failure to focus more explicitly and substantively on the adequacy of our defence. The best we got was a repeated acknowledgement of the challenges in the prospective global environment, with the Coalition waiting until about five minutes to midnight to release their promised unfunded defence initiative. Without any detail, however, it came across as little better than another thought bubble.
Peter Dutton’s empty leadership

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

We don’t have a presidential election system in Australia and yet so much of this campaign and its media coverage has focused on the contest between the two major party leaders. It doesn’t need to be this way, nor should it be. The strategists on both the Coalition and the Labor side ought to broaden the frontline, by bringing the ministers and shadow ministers into the contest.
What can the RBA do about Trump?

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

As United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs unleash chaos and turmoil across global markets, financial authorities around the world are forced into the unenviable role of working out how to protect their economies.At such an unpredictable juncture, with the leader of the world’s largest economy going rogue, who would want to be a central banker? The risks of a recession in the US and globally are now very real, as are the prospects of increasing inflation, again both in the US and globally.
Fix for a broken tax system

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

As the major parties compete for the title of best economic manager, they are still ignoring the elephant in the room. Their future spending commitments, and voters’ expectations for further support, are not adequately funded by the prospective tax base. Many tax concessions, given initially in good faith, are no longer appropriate in light of today’s policy challenges. Many wealthy individuals and corporations are not meeting their tax obligations, indeed paying little or no tax.
Memories from the campaign trail

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

The launch of the campaign for the May 3 federal election brings back many memories, laughs and cautionary tales of my experiences on the trail in the 1990s. As opposition leader, I had embarked on a big-picture strategy. I released the Fightback policy package designed to deliver the kind of country and economy we would want in 2000. The pressure was really on – what I had to do was to sell it.
Scott Morrison's gas plan is an arrogant, irresponsible disaster (Canberra Times Sep 17, 2020)

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | John Hewson

The only rival to the arrogance of Morrison’s gas-led recovery strategy is its irresponsibility. So much for evidence-based policy as a foundation for good, responsible government. There is no evidence to support the expansion of gas-fired generation in today’s world, whererenewablesare decidedly cheaper, and with negligible emissions.
Air pollution from coal blights young lives, even before birth

1 month ago | johnmenadue.com | John Hewson

Air pollution from Australias dirty coal-burning power stations needlessly causes 850 cases of low birth weight and at least 800 premature deaths per year. Coal is also the number one cause of the climate crisis. Clean renewable technology is available now to prevent these problems and protect young lives. Our youth are a natural treasure and they must be protected.
Four leaders who are unwriting the rule of law

1 month ago | thesaturdaypaper.com.au | John Hewson

One of the most disturbing recent global trends has been the attempts by governments to attack the independence of the judiciary. United States President Donald Trump has become almost obsessed with undermining the Department of Justice and weaponising its processes. His executive orders have also run afoul of the courts, with some overruled and their implementation delayed.

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