by FRED PAWLE – SUNDAY’S march across Sydney Harbour was not about free speech — or even Israel, for that matter. Palestinians are not known for their prowess in the construction business. Instead, they have proved a dab hand at digging tunnels…
by FRED PAWLE – WHY would a politician bother trying to improve a nation when it’s easier to ruin it instead? If you are a politician who, for whatever reason, wants to destroy the nation you govern, follow these four simple but…
by FRED PAWLE – WELCOME to Country and “traditional ownership” of land are both affronts to the democratic systems and values that made Australia the country it is. Every day under Prime Minister Anthony Albanese I get the uneasy feeling that our…
by FRED PAWLE – WHILE the West wallows in disenchantment, Asians embrace our technology and consumerism with conspicuous glee. When Australians started travelling overseas en masse in the 1980s, returning home was an essential and reassuring part of the experience. Australians are…
by FRED PAWLE – WE MIGHT be too busy to contemplate the meaning of this sunburnt country, but circumstances demand we do so anyway. Or perish. This might seem an inappropriate time to ask what’s the purpose of Australia – with inflation…
by FRED PAWLE – DONALD Trump’s message to the mullahs in Iran should be heeded by the millions of migrants who are struggling to assimilate in the West. It’s okay to go home now. While the world speculates about what the Middle…
by FRED PAWLE – DON’T be fooled by the official narrative about Iran. If the past is any guide, it serves the elites’ interests, not yours. Opinions about the Middle East these days are like magic mushrooms sprouting en masse in a…
by FRED PAWLE – WIDESPREAD pessimism is causing an increasing number of Australians to move overseas. Curiously, Israel, where the future is even bleaker, doesn’t have the same problem. Last Thursday I commented on X that there seemed to be a lot…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA’S political class is deliberately creating the conditions for the current riots in Los Angeles to be replicated here should they ever deem it necessary. This is the modern equivalent of the American “cultural colonialism” that used to…
by FRED PAWLE – THE most ridiculous taxation proposal in recent memory might finally trigger the beginning of the end for compulsory superannuation in Australia. Maybe Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ plan to tax unrealised capital gains on some superannuation accounts isn’t such a…
