by DAVID FLINT – PERHAPS the best way to compare prime ministers is by their respect for the constitution. Three are in the news these days, Anthony Albanese, John Howard and Gough Whitlam. While Whitlam, a QC, knowingly played the constitutional delinquent…
by DAVID FLINT – TAKING out the trash refers to politicians releasing bad news when it’s least likely to be noticed, such as a Friday afternoon before a three-day weekend. Both sides of politics do it. But now, the US mainstream media…
by DAVID FLINT – AUSTRALIANS are fortunate that we have been part of the world’s most benign empires, first the British and then Raymond Aron’s Imperial Republic, the American. Apart from Joe Lyons’ insistence that, married to a divorcee, Edward VIII was…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE was a time when Australians would leave their front doors and windows wide open. Not my mother, who was born in what was then the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. There, an open door was seen as…
by DAVID FLINT – THIS week signals a turning point, perhaps the last chance to halt the decline and fall of Western civilisation. From being led by a compromised sell-out to Beijing and an elite infected with neo-Marxism, the path is now…
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…
