Fred Pawle
former Communications Director
Fred was Communications Director from July 2017 to June 2020.
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Fred was Communications Director from July 2017 to June 2020.
Unlike most of the media, Stoic philosophers knew this pandemic was coming, and can offer simple advice about how to survive it. By Fred Pawle.
We are not using technology properly in this crisis. There are smarter ways to prevent the virus spreading. By Fred Pawle.
Another promising Australian energy project has been abandoned for the usual reason: doing business here is too difficult and expensive. By Fred Pawle.
Despite a vicious, deceptive campaign against it, an application to explore for oil in the Greta Australian Bight was today given environmental approval. By Fred Pawle.
Some of our beaches will be inundated this weekend by avid oil consumers demanding the expulsion of a Norwegian oil company from the Great Australian Bight.
Taxpayers have been funding research into lethal sharks for 20 years but all they’ve received in return are dangerous beaches. By Fred Pawle
Writing the posthumous biography of a famous friend such as Bill Leak poses a few challenges but none as daunting as those he faced.
Even fundamental libertarians cannot deny the mutual responsibility we have towards each other, including people inclined to make stupid decisions. By Fred Pawle
Your medical data will help unlock the secrets of countless ailments and cures, generating billions in profits. So shouldn’t you share the spoils? By Fred Pawle.
As two Coalition Governments focus on increasing efficiency in the public service, a new report warns us that bureaucratic waste is dangerously high. By Fred Pawle.
It doesn’t matter how much information you share with environmentalists, their conclusions are the same: fossil fuel miners are destroying the planet. By Fred Pawle.
Amid the nostalgia of Bob Hawke’s memorial in Sydney was the nagging feeling that Labor is unlikely to produce another leader as great as him. By Fred Pawle.
Unlike their counterparts in the democratic West, the protesters in Hong Kong are advocating to retain one of the fundamental legacies of British colonialism. By Fred Pawle.
The activists who swung the election in Corangamite ironically are heavy consumers of the product against which they were protesting. By Fred Pawle
How a series of incisive reports and a robust campaign to inform the electorate helped swing the result in the 2019 federal election. By Fred Pawle.
Sir John Carrick AC KCMG said life is a ‘limitless adventure’. His own life, as a soldier, POW and Senator, is testimony to it. By James Mathias and Fred Pawle.
The idea of our rural roads and highways being wired up with electric-car charging stations appeals only to inner-city dreamers.
Australian women have lived with endometriosis for too long. The Government is funding new research and treatment to end the scourge. By Fred Pawle.
The kids who paraded their victimhood through Australian streets yesterday were not being as original or independent as they thought. By Fred Pawle.
Opponents to oil exploration in the Great Australian Bight ignore the existence of similar operations elsewhere in the world. By Fred Pawle.
The protest movement against oil drilling in the Great Australian Bight is growing. Curiously, most of the protesters are among Australia’s most avid oil consumers. By Fred Pawle.
The longer we postpone developing nuclear energy, the further behind we will fall in being able to build plants cheaply. By Fred Pawle
Despite warnings of imminent catastrophe, the world has never been more peaceful or prosperous. Shouldn't we be more cheerful? By Fred Pawle.
As the Senate forms an inquiry into obesity, cracks are appearing in the formerly international consensus regarding a remedy. By Fred Pawle.
Four Corners twists the facts about sugar, obesity and personal responsibility to fit its own anti-business agenda. By Fred Pawle.
A couple of minor historic delays pushed our day of civic celebration into the most appropriately languid part of the year, says Fred Pawle.