by FRED PAWLE – AS SHARK attacks become more frequent, the world’s leading boffins have convened on a tropical island to reassure us that a happy compromise can one day be found. Yet, there are not many consolations to being attacked by…
by FRED PAWLE – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong is clinging to a USAID model of sending billions of taxpayer dollars to opaque woke projects in poor countries. One of the intangible benefits of Donald Trump slashing tens of billions of dollars from…
by FRED PAWLE – THE orgy of nostalgia for the glory days of COVID – five years ago this month – confirms that most journalists and their “expert” friends still don’t understand life outside their own bubble. Whenever the mainstream media marks…
by FRED PAWLE – OF ALL Australia’s vulnerabilities at the moment, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s woefully inadequate understanding of high-stakes gambling is the most dangerous. As a gambler, PM Albanese is more like the bloke who hits the pokies after a couple…
by FRED PAWLE – IS THERE no problem in the world that European leaders – and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – can’t make worse? The European Commissioners – who two months ago were building a new renewable energy grid to save…
by FRED PAWLE – PENNY Wong has unveiled her plan to help India produce renewable energy and in return receive hordes of unskilled migrants. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t believe his luck. The Foreign Minister has probably never sat in the…
by FRED PAWLE – OUR civilisational decline is now fuelled by unrestrained hatred and the hypocrisy of disinterested elites. One doesn’t hear the Ernest Hemingway Law of Motion mentioned very often these days. About a quarter of Australians are now either on…
by FRED PAWLE – HAS anybody seen Energy Minister Chris Bowen lately? The man who was central to Labor winning the 2022 election has suddenly gone uncharacteristically quiet. After single-handedly losing the election for Bill Shorten in 2019, Bowen was one of…
by FRED PAWLE – IT TAKES political cunning to deal with State-funded medical staff boasting about killing patients. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns rise to the challenge. “You’ve got to jail people. Not just anybody who breaks the…
by FRED PAWLE – BY PASSING even more tyrannical hate-speech laws, our politicians have revealed how little they know about Australian culture, let alone the fragile freedom upon which it is based. In the middle of a housing and cost-of-living crisis, what…
