"There’s one great mission that cries out for leadership: it’s the transition demanded by climate change – the massive national effort needed to harness all our human and material resources into a blueprint for the future," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Chief Minister Andrew Barr has described holidaying Canberrans self-isolating at the south coast as “extraordinarily selfish” because of the risk of spreading the virus and a lack of resources there. Columnist ROBERT MACKLIN, writing from Tuross, begs to differ.
"Here’s the really big question: who will be first to produce the effective vaccine, once the first version fails to turn the tide? I like to think it will be Queensland Uni combined with Melbourne’s Peter Doherty Institute," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"The people of Canberra and surrounds had heard calls to support their compatriots who were doing it tough and responded with that big Australian heart. For we’re not just a country, it seems, we’re a community as well," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"When Hannah Clarke’s children died, there was only her footprint left to remember them by," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
Waiting to see a doctor is bad enough, but "the real horrors are the specialists… their egos outpace even the radio shock jocks’, their arrogance grows positively Trumpian", says "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Suddenly there was a sense that 'we’re all in this together', that the very idea of being Australian and literally under fire from the monster made us one," writes The gadfly columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"This is the year when our chickens come home to roost… or should that be roast?" writes columnist ROBERT MACKLIN
"It is interesting the way a group of young women have gradually demolished the whole silly aristocratic façade of inherited distinction brick by grubby brick," writes "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"Our world is separating itself into two violently opposed camps – the people v. their failed leadership – and an undeclared war between them will mean the destruction of human society as we know it," write "The Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
"With the country on fire and the rivers drying up Australians are watching with growing amazement that Scott Morrison’s belief in 'miracles' extends to a blind denial of science and the evidence all around him," writes "Gadfly" columnist ROBERT MACKLIN.
ROBERT MACKLIN reveals an important detail he left out of his original story, which has been making headlines across Australia.
