Franchising and the ATO: Finding the fall guy
Franchising and the ATO: Finding the fall guy By the Australian Business Executive The Australian Government should have a full understanding of the workings of the Australian Franchising industry which has an annual turnover of $172 billion dollars, generated through 94,524 outlets, employing 565,251 people. Australia’s franchising industry is second only in size to the United States’, […]
Do we need DFAT (Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade)?
MEDIA RELEASE 6 April 2022 Do we need DFAT (Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade)? Stewart A Levitt Do we need DFAT? Under the Morrison Government, would we be better off if we had no foreign policy at all and just shut up? Think of it. No one, except perhaps the Russians and the […]
Free Range
Free Range By Stewart A Levitt, 8 August 2020 In casual, summer sleeves and with Fargo, Yankee sounds,the pale cop is unmoored and vaguely sneersas the dark man’s head is squashed into the ground:That black face, stained with fear and grimy tears,calling for his dead, sweet mama:The man on top, intense, no drama:rending cries, hushed […]
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT When Alex Heinke interviewed me for Channel 9 News Brisbane last Thursday, he did not seem particularly interested in anything that I had to say. Surprising, since the story was on the Palm Island compensation pay-out and I am the lawyer ultimately responsible for it. I […]
Praise for the Poem
Praise for the Poem Half of “Too Soon To Be Late” was written from 1998 onwards and the other half, over the past couple of years. “Too Soon To Be Late” is a chronicle of key events in my life, in which I reveal my passions, vulnerabilities and anger, and rail against racism, inhumanity and […]
The Virus is Racism
The Virus is Racism It is mischievous and unfair to tag a virus as the Chinese Virus. Is AIDS the American Immunodeficiency Syndrome or the Gay Virus or the monkey virus? Did the Spaniards introduce a new more virulent strain of Syphilis to Europe from the Americas? European colonisers exported smallpox, measles, typhus and cholera […]
Franchising and the ATO: Finding the fall guy
Franchising and the ATO: Finding the fall guy By the Australian Business Executive The Australian Government should have a full understanding of the workings of the Australian Franchising industry which has an annual turnover of $172 billion dollars, generated through 94,524 outlets, employing 565,251 people. Australia’s franchising industry is second only in size to the United States’, […]
Do we need DFAT (Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade)?
MEDIA RELEASE 6 April 2022 Do we need DFAT (Commonwealth Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade)? Stewart A Levitt Do we need DFAT? Under the Morrison Government, would we be better off if we had no foreign policy at all and just shut up? Think of it. No one, except perhaps the Russians and the […]
Free Range
Free Range By Stewart A Levitt, 8 August 2020 In casual, summer sleeves and with Fargo, Yankee sounds,the pale cop is unmoored and vaguely sneersas the dark man’s head is squashed into the ground:That black face, stained with fear and grimy tears,calling for his dead, sweet mama:The man on top, intense, no drama:rending cries, hushed […]
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT
NineNews’ story of May 18 is the REAL RORT When Alex Heinke interviewed me for Channel 9 News Brisbane last Thursday, he did not seem particularly interested in anything that I had to say. Surprising, since the story was on the Palm Island compensation pay-out and I am the lawyer ultimately responsible for it. I […]
Praise for the Poem
Praise for the Poem Half of “Too Soon To Be Late” was written from 1998 onwards and the other half, over the past couple of years. “Too Soon To Be Late” is a chronicle of key events in my life, in which I reveal my passions, vulnerabilities and anger, and rail against racism, inhumanity and […]
The Virus is Racism
The Virus is Racism It is mischievous and unfair to tag a virus as the Chinese Virus. Is AIDS the American Immunodeficiency Syndrome or the Gay Virus or the monkey virus? Did the Spaniards introduce a new more virulent strain of Syphilis to Europe from the Americas? European colonisers exported smallpox, measles, typhus and cholera […]