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Brendan O'Reilly

Brendan O’Reilly is a retired commonwealth public servant with a background in economics and accounting. He is currently pursuing private business interests.
MV Bahijah live export fiasco has echoes of 2011 live cattle export ban
Economics - 13/02/2024 - 3 comments
Unwelcome to country?
Indigenous Affairs - 29/01/2024 - 5 comments
Lower living standards and high inflation: it's what Australians unwittingly voted for
Economics - 27/11/2023 - 14 comments
The Matildas: Australians going OTT on sport yet again?
Sport - 28/08/2023 - 6 comments
The real reasons for Australia's housing crisis
Economics - 27/03/2023 - 8 comments
Cancer: coping with a loved one's illness and subsequent death
Health - 21/02/2023 - 4 comments
Recent economic management in Australia has been abysmal, and a reckoning awaits
Economics - 9/08/2022 - 8 comments
Reconciliation: a worthy and achievable cause or a political idea before its time?
Indigenous Affairs - 10/06/2022 - 10 comments
Of necessity, tax avoidance has become a key preoccupation for much of middle Australia
Economics - 21/04/2022 - 16 comments
Both our political class and Indigenous communities have failed troubled Aboriginal young people in Northern Australia
Indigenous Affairs - 4/04/2022 - 11 comments
Australia's Antarctic spending surge is extravagant, un-strategic and poorly targeted
International - 30/03/2022 - 6 comments
The station buy-ups by NSW National Parks are a waste of money and will further damage Western NSW
Environment - 25/02/2022 - 17 comments
The deceased leaders of Southern Africa: heroes, populists or villains?
International - 15/02/2022 - 8 comments
Australia is nuts in agreeing to adopt Net Zero
Environment - 13/01/2022 - 13 comments
Why do our governments and public institutions defame Australia by embracing an embellished 'Stolen Generations' narrative?
Indigenous Affairs - 17/11/2021 - 26 comments
A pox on rail fanatics
Nation Building - 23/04/2021 - 50 comments
The Government's AstraZeneca about face: humble pie but no apology to Craig Kelly
Health - 12/04/2021 - 6 comments
The debts run-up by profligate governments are about to cost us dearly
Economics - 18/03/2021 - 8 comments
Blaming the victim
Law & Liberties - 1/03/2021 - 87 comments
Environmental acts of faith are seriously misdirecting public investment in our electricity sector
Nation Building - 1/02/2021 - 33 comments
I don't especially like the Christmas and New Year season
Society - 29/12/2020 - 10 comments
Will the penny ever drop that recovering from Covid19 shutdowns will take a lot longer than governments admit?
Health - 13/10/2020 - 8 comments
How 'progressive' courts are ignoring individual responsibility
Law & Liberties - 21/08/2020 - 5 comments
Severe recession, huge debts: Australia's Covid-19 strategy
Health - 16/07/2020 - 17 comments
Sign language interpreters at politicians' media events: Real help for the deaf or mere virtue signalling?
Society - 18/06/2020 - 11 comments
The robo-debt pile-on
Economics - 5/06/2020 - 21 comments
Meteorologists should add the words 'don't know' to their vocabulary
Environment - 19/05/2020 - 15 comments
Australia's responded to Corona virus with panicked lockdowns and a reckless spending spree
Health - 16/04/2020 - 17 comments
Our politicians are repeating mistakes they made with the car industry and GMH
Economics - 8/04/2020 - 11 comments
Brexit: vindication for de Gaulle but maybe a pyrrhic victory for British nationalism?
International - 20/02/2020 - 7 comments
Australia needs to reassess the role and management of its national parks
Environment - 24/01/2020 - 51 comments
Recent disastrous bushfires result mainly from ignoring lessons from the past
Environment - 9/01/2020 - 24 comments
How a Territory lost its farming lands in a furtive privatisation rip-off
Economics - 6/12/2019 - 7 comments
The Murray-Darling Plan involves a huge waste of water and money
Environment - 15/11/2019 - 12 comments
Recycling to save the planet: another great environmental hoax
Environment - 12/09/2019 - 9 comments
Whistle-blowers and government secrets: cui bono
Law & Liberties - 16/08/2019 - 18 comments
The shameful neglect of Australia's legacy of space facilities
Science & Technology - 23/07/2019 - 3 comments
The latest US anti-abortion laws are a response to judicial activism
Law & Liberties - 24/05/2019 - 52 comments
Labor's election campaign breaks the golden rule
Domestic Politics - 13/05/2019 - 8 comments
Response to egging of Senator Fraser Anning sends all the wrong signals
Law & Liberties - 15/04/2019 - 9 comments
Was the controversial picture of AFLW player Tayla Harris merely a celebration of her athleticism?
Sport - 29/03/2019 - 44 comments
Will the Berejiklian Government be the next to go?
Domestic Politics - 19/03/2019 - 10 comments
'Man-made' climate change: the world's multi-trillion dollar moral panic
Environment - 22/02/2019 - 181 comments
The Eastman case: an unstable defendant, a lawyers' picnic, and a huge waste of public money
Law & Liberties - 4/12/2018 - 3 comments
Abolishing the 'tampon tax' is a politically-motivated response to special pleading
Economics - 12/10/2018 - 10 comments
Agitators challenge authoritarian regimes at their own peril
International - 5/09/2018 - 6 comments
The worst of wasteful government spending
Economics - 2/08/2018 - 11 comments
The reality of our northern cattle industry belies popular rhetoric
Economics - 20/04/2018 - 12 comments
Hard cases make for bad compensation laws
Law & Liberties - 12/01/2018 - 3 comments
Recent royal commissions have been a gross extravagance
Law & Liberties - 3/01/2018 - 9 comments
Australia's Constitution: the referenda we need to have
Law & Liberties - 3/11/2017 - 54 comments
More to the Harvey Weinstein story than Harvey
Society - 18/10/2017 - 18 comments
Why won't women's advocates support banning the burka?
Law & Liberties - 7/09/2017 - 25 comments
The nature and seriousness of North Korea's threat to Australia is not widely appreciated
International - 11/08/2017 - 20 comments
Rape trials generally showcase our legal system at its worst
Law & Liberties - 27/07/2017 - 15 comments
Forced AFL resignations were a holier-than-thou and sexist over-reaction
Law & Liberties - 18/07/2017 - 5 comments
What's behind Australia's exploding indigenous population?
Indigenous Affairs - 5/07/2017 - 30 comments
Breaking the heart of the heartland
Economics - 22/05/2017 - 12 comments
Sex abuse in Catholic institutions: key questions for the royal commission
Law & Liberties - 3/04/2017 - 11 comments
'Stolen Generations' court decision highlights differing laws for indigeous Australians
Law & Liberties - 31/01/2017 - 9 comments
Affair of Channel Seven's CEO exposes mixed societal mores
Law & Liberties - 13/01/2017 - 5 comments
It's not just Italy that needs parliamentary reform
Political Philosophy - 16/12/2016 - 9 comments
Precarious state of our Indigenous languages
Society - 25/11/2016 - 17 comments
The things we aren't allowed to say
Society - 11/11/2016 - 38 comments
Hypocrisy of 'gay wedding cake' case
Law & Liberties - 28/10/2016 - 21 comments
Debate over Adler shotgun is emotional and ill-informed
Domestic Politics - 24/10/2016 - 107 comments
What will the NT Royal Commission achieve?
Law & Liberties - 28/07/2016 - 15 comments
NSW's illl-considered ban on greyhound racing: the thin end of the wedge
Law & Liberties - 11/07/2016 - 17 comments
An election neither side deserves to win
Domestic Politics - 1/07/2016 - 6 comments
Gender pay equality in sport: a market distortion under the guise of equity
Sport - 24/06/2016 - 6 comments
The 'gender gap' in retirement incomes is a big exaggeration
Society - 6/05/2016 - 9 comments
Report of Victoria's Royal Commission on Family Violence hardly surprises
Law & Liberties - 8/04/2016 - 34 comments
Permanent asylum for unauthorised arrivals has reached its global use-by date
Law & Liberties - 1/04/2016 - 18 comments
The tax reform debate is opportunistic, self-interested and ignores key issues
Economics - 9/03/2016 - 2 comments
Oz Day has been hijacked by awards and events publicising politically correct causes
Society - 25/01/2016 - 8 comments
Selling vast tracts of Australia's farmland to foreigners is not in our national interest
Economics - 18/01/2016 - 12 comments
Our politicians can't be trusted with a 15 per cent GST
Economics - 6/11/2015 - 31 comments
Turnbull's response to domestic violence ignores the evidence
Society - 6/10/2015 - 77 comments
Australia has excessive protections for its kangaroos
Environment - 21/09/2015 - 17 comments
Unrelenting Illegal immigration will force policy changes in the US
International - 28/07/2015 - 4 comments
Key aspects of US supreme court marriage equality judgement go unnoticed
Law & Liberties - 1/07/2015 - 8 comments
Why do some people adopt an ethnicity that does not appear to be their own?
Law & Liberties - 26/06/2015 - 14 comments
Australia's abortion laws are conflicting, hypocritical, and poorly enforced
Law & Liberties - 22/05/2015 - 27 comments
Getting the balance right between victim and perpetrator
Law & Liberties - 27/02/2015 - 27 comments
Commentators have wrong take on Sydney siege
Law & Liberties - 23/12/2014 - 31 comments
Hypocritical debate over ASC's capacity to even 'build a canoe'
International - 1/12/2014 - 19 comments
'Ireland's Lost Babies' - another hatchet job from our ABC
Law & Liberties - 18/11/2014 - 13 comments
Capital disaster with asbestos contaminated houses
Health - 5/11/2014 - 5 comments
The budget impasse reflects an indulgent electorate and an undemocratically elected senate
Economics - 16/09/2014 - 12 comments
Productivity Commission report on childcare disappoints
Society - 8/08/2014 - 17 comments
How do Harris's moral flaws affect the value of his ouevre?
Society - 7/07/2014 - 37 comments
Take an axe to profligate child care and parental leave programmes
Economics - 10/06/2014 - 13 comments
High Court 'Norrie Case' builds on existing bad laws
Law & Liberties - 4/04/2014 - 16 comments
Compare the pair: politics and public policy in Tasmania and the ACT
Domestic Politics - 11/03/2014 - 1 comment
Philomena is a distortion of the truth
Law & Liberties - 10/01/2014 - 9 comments
Child sex abuse and the Catholic clergy
Law & Liberties - 17/12/2013 - 32 comments
Flawed official narrative on indigenous population growth
Indigenous Affairs - 29/10/2013 - 4 comments
Indonesia taking us to the cleaners through NT land purchases
Economics - 8/10/2013 - 36 comments
Harpooning ourselves in the foot
Environment - 29/07/2013 - 6 comments
Does the Human Rights Commission treat some groups more equally than others?
Law & Liberties - 9/07/2013 - 11 comments
Parental leave inquiry is investigating the obvious
Society - 26/06/2013 - 2 comments
Animal activists mislead to destroy our northern cattle industry
Environment - 12/06/2013 - 6 comments
Converted to marriage
Society - 8/05/2013 - 38 comments
Empty adoptions' apology is based on half-truths
Society - 25/03/2013 - 35 comments
Navy inserts itself between the sheets and into the mind
Law & Liberties - 21/12/2012 - 2 comments
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