by ROGER CROOK – I HAVE just received a nice note from my namesake, WA Premier Roger Crook, to tell me he’s going to return some money I gave him in the first place; he hopes it will help pay our electricity…
by ROGER CROOK – WHILE no Arab nation will accept Gazan refugees, Australia’s Labor Government has no such reservations, welcoming them into Australia with only hours of vetting. It now appears that Western democracies, including Australia, have been the main supporters of…
by ROGER CROOK – WHEN Prime Minister Albanese visited the NT last year, he never asked to be taken to the town camps to see the disfunction for himself; probably because he had to get back for the Australian Tennis Open. Out…
by ROGER CROOK – IT WAS a cynical act by Albanese’s Labor government to open the gates to more than 500k immigrants, when they knew there was nowhere for them to live? It was callous to welcome these people when they knew…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIANS are tired after two slow years of pandemic recovery and a rapid escalation in rents, mortgages, the cost of food, diesel, petrol, electricity and gas. Cost of living, for many, has become an extraordinary challenge and seemingly…
by ROGER CROOK – THE basic tenets of democracy died in Australia in 2007 – and they are yet to be revived. We elect governments to govern; to take care of our needs today and plan for all our tomorrows. If they…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA is now inextricably tied to China. If for any reason trade between our two countries should be disrupted, Australia’s economy would rapidly deteriorate and China’s would not. In 1987 when President Ronald Reagan said “Mr Gorbachev tear…
by ROGER CROOK – BRITAIN and Australia share many things. The first non-Aboriginal occupants of this country, at least in any number, were British. We also share a common language. While the third and most important feature we share with each other…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are ever increasing concerns around the world that the conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas could escalate across the Middle East – and beyond. With China rattling the sabre over Taiwan; Russia seemingly pushing and maybe…
by ROGER CROOK – IN OCTOBER 2023 more than 60 per cent of Australians rejected changing the Constitution to give Aboriginal and Torrens Strait Islander people a special voice to Parliament. Film producer Rachael Perkins, a young Australian woman with Aboriginal, German…
