by DAVID FLINT – THE only good politician is a frightened politician, according to one of the world’s best-known and most highly qualified geologists, Professor Ian Plimer. I had asked him on ADHTV why politicians are massively increasing ordinary Australians’ electricity bills,…
by DAVID FLINT – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong has hardly “recognised” Tel Aviv as Israel’s capital. She cannot. That remains the sole prerogative of the Israeli government. If Minister Wong had prudently first phoned her Jerusalem-based counterpart, she would have realised her…
by DAVID FLINT – AFTER the 2016 presidential elections, it became obvious that the US mainstream media had abandoned its vocation of being both free and responsible, to become the propaganda arm of a Democratic Party captured by the far Left. Exceptions…
by DAVID FLINT – ACTING against corruption should obviously be just and efficient. This basic consideration should not be abandoned in parliament’s unseemly rush to ram through the National Anti-Corruption Commission bills before their long summer break. Taxpayers should not be left…
by DAVID FLINT – IT IS often said by those going into public life that they wish to make a difference. This requires an attachment to principle stronger than the wish for advancement. It is not common. I recently interviewed a man…
by DAVID FLINT – POLLING, it has been said, is funded not to measure, but to shape public opinion. Obvious in the 2020 US election, however, there is little evidence of this in Australia. But as demonstrated here, the polls can be…
by DAVID FLINT – THE politicians, mainstream media and other elites planned to sack Elizabeth II well before the end of the last century. If our founders had not ensured the final decision would be with the people, the elites would have…
by DAVID FLINT – THE almost universal sadness on the passing of Elizabeth II has come as a surprise to those who think the institution of constitutional monarchy is irrelevant and easily removed. When the world comes to watch King Charles III’s…
by DAVID FLINT – Sir Robert Menzies was, of course, not infallible. But he was right in his strong belief that while everything should be done to improve the welfare of the Aboriginal people, it would be a serious mistake to endow…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH the former British chancellor, Rishi Sunak, openly wondering whether lockdowns were a good idea, when will the Australian political class and mainstream media admit that they were completely wrong, not only on lockdowns, but most other aspects…
