It is with great pleasure that I announce my long-term business partner Malcolm Cole will be assuming the role of Managing Director of the SAS Group from 1st July.   The time is right for a baton change, and Malcolm will do a terrific job leading our team to the next level of service and trust, in […]

As Queensland moves towards the State Election on October 26, the State’s politicians, political parties and compulsory preferential voting system are bound to come under intense scrutiny. But what about the behaviour of voters themselves? One of the peculiar aspects of Queensland’s voting patterns is that expected electoral tidal waves tend to form (or dissipate) […]

An Inconvenient Truth was a documentary produced by former US Vice President Al Gore in 2006. In 2007, he was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) for ‘highlighting the link they see between the risk of accelerating climate change and the risk of violent conflict and wars’. In many […]

I am not a political junkie. I am a marketing, branding, and comms operator with a family, career, small business, optimism for a decent social life, and a yearning for an hour in the day just for me. At the SAS Group, I spend my days with many lovable political junkies, and to say I […]

Not as many international students at universities, TAFEs and private vocational colleges – that’s for certain. In response to intense political and community pressure over the spiralling housing crisis, the Albanese Government has decided it will reduce the number of international students coming to Australia.  Labor aims to slash Net Overseas Migration (NOM) from 528,000 […]

We’re less than two weeks out from the State Budget and less than 150 days from the October 26 election. After a messy April, the month of May saw the Miles Government stabilise much of the media cycle and occasionally lead the debate with policies that caught the eye of voters. The release of two […]

The lead up to any federal budget is filled with anticipation and hope that some sort of economic miracle will be revealed. Taxes down … cash rebates up … spending in every portfolio … all while magically reducing debt and driving down inflation.  The media, commentators and the political class perpetuate the ‘miracle budget’ myth, […]

“I’d rather lose by 10 points going for the win than lose by one point and look back and say ‘we should have gone for the win’.” The above quote is from former Republican adviser, Steve Schmidt, to Senator John McCain in the lead up to the 2008 US Presidential election, advising that he should […]

She’s 24 next week. I’ve got a year to go.  As a young father I nursed my daughter for the first time, looked into her little eyes and set a goal: C.J. 25.  Using her first and middle initials, C.J. 25 was my vision for my first born and would shape the kind of parent […]