Paul Collits, Author at Politics, Policy, Political Views

Paul Collits is Politicom’s Senior Political Commentator. He is a freelance writer and independent researcher who lives in Lismore, NSW. He has worked in government, industry and the university sector, and has taught at tertiary level in three disciplines – politics, geography and planning & business studies. He also contributes to Substack – https://paulcollits.substack.com/

Hunt should shut up – or confess

On : 11/05/202414/05/2024- by Paul Collits- 8 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN politicians are increasingly demanding that voters forget about pandemic lockdowns (and Islamic terror). The first and only rule of the post-pandemic political classes is to never, ever mention the failure of their COVID response. “Just shut up!” …

You will be silenced & you will be happy

On : 09/05/202410/05/2024- by Paul Collits- 3 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS are being told they should only ever get their information from government. According to our political elites, it’s only “the people” who lie. Hence, government agencies and universities (!) will be exempt from Australia’s coming misinformation legislation. …

MPs running cover for Muslim misbehaviour

On : 25/04/202429/04/2024- by Paul Collits- 7 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – ELON Musk has been riding the climate lie wave all the way to the beach. He is one of those “foreign billionaires” about whom mixed feelings are decidedly in order. What is to like about a rich greenie…

Prepare for second socialist revolution

On : 18/04/202408/05/2024- by Paul Collits- 1 Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – BRITISH MP Robert Jenrick has warned that the inevitable Starmer Government in the United Kingdom will enact a “second Blairite revolution”. Mr Jenrick currently serves as the UK’s Tory Immigration Minister. Elites outsource decision-making to the unelected to…

Bishop Mar Mari speaks truth – others spout garbage

On : 18/04/202408/05/2024- by Paul Collits- No Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIAN bishops are currently in the news. In the case of Western Sydney this week, for the wrong reasons. Very nearly tragic news, for Assyrian Orthodox Christian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel. The good Bishop, whose words have been…

Regional Aussies don’t ‘live’ – just ‘exist’

On : 12/04/202430/04/2024- by Paul Collits- No Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – A HEALTH crisis close to home (not so close to home, geographically) has found me deep in the tropics for a month or so. Three long days’ drive north. It is like a foreign country. I don’t know…

Rich greenies have hands in your pocket

On : 04/04/202423/04/2024- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – FOUR of Australia’s most disturbing public figures – Mike Cannon-Brookes, Chris Bowen, Malcolm Turnbull and Wyatt Roy – are all in the news at the same time, and in the same story. They are dishonestly taking money from…

Where does Labor dredge up such creatures?

On : 02/04/202418/04/2024- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – THE title of one of Cat Stevens’ early classics turns out to be an apt description for the hapless, short-term, finger-in-the-dyke Premier of the Sunshine State, Steven Miles. Where does the Australian Labor Party dredge up these creatures? …

Pope acts like a fool in Holy times

On : 27/03/202412/04/2024- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – AS BILLIONS of Christians celebrate the holiest of weeks, leading up to Easter, the head of the Catholic Church seems more focused on slandering those who struggle with his extreme social views. If ever there was a world…

Eight reasons Australia is completely ‘stuffed’

On : 21/03/202408/04/2024- by Paul Collits- 3 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – NSW Premier Chris Minns has done a “sit down” interview. Wow, the issue at hand must be important. It is, but, inevitably, what the current Premier has to contribute on the topic is narrow, paltry, self-serving and insignificant. …