by PAUL COLLITS – WHILE globalists in Brussels, Geneva and other nodes of power might be licking their wounds – for the moment – over Trump, they are openly sniggering over their prospects in the UK. Nigel Farage, hero of Brexit –…
by PAUL COLLITS – CARDINAL George Pell wasn’t initially sure of his priestly vocation as a youth. He had a solid academic career beckoning, as well as a solid football contract inked in. He chose the priesthood, and, by George, it cost…
by PAUL COLLITS – EVILDOERS are not always stereotypical monsters, like Jack the Ripper, but are often disguised as middle level bureaucrats – just following orders. Hannah Arendt had a simple argument in her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem. Computer screen-savers in Queensland…
by PAUL COLLITS – A LONG time ago, there was a cartoon, probably done by Alan Moir, of the dour looking 1980s NSW Premier Barrie Unsworth that showed his various faces. Barrie excited, Barrie sad, Barrie angry, Barrie determined, and so on….
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the great questions of international relations and of history is what “causes” war. Many tomes have been written about both individual wars and about war in general. One is by our own Geoffrey Blainey. The literature…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS will have to get used to a different Australia. The old one has gone. Free speech is gone – and the only consolation is that our grandchildren will know no difference. Two depressing stories have emerged suggesting…
by PAUL COLLITS – POLITICIANS are flushing taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the toilet without blinking an eye – all to get their friends and themselves filthy rich. In the US, they have recently spent $8m to study the effect of flavored cigarettes…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE war on Cardinal George Pell continues beyond the grave. How could it not? The stakes for the Mean Girls and their allies are simply too great. The battle lines have clearly emerged. On one side, we have…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA is doomed to another period of tip-toe, pale conservatism in the event of a change of government. Paul Kelly of The Australian newspaper penned a long-winded exposition this week on the state of Australian politics as the…
by PAUL COLLITS – STEPHEN Jones – a politician of whom I had happily never heard, until this week – is retiring. He is taking his bat and going home. He is, appropriately enough, the Member for Whitlam. (Formerly it was called…
