by PAUL COLLITS – THERE has never been a President-elect like this one. Donald J Trump is re-writing the rules of the weird two-month transition period between an election and the inauguration. Americans have never seen anything like this. Many are claiming,…
by PAUL COLLITS – VICTORIAN Labor’s polling is in the toilet. Its Uncle Festa Treasurer, Tim Pallas, has resigned, leaving the State $156b in the red with a tanking economy. Premier Jacinta Allan is a dead girl walking. Or should be. And…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE was a time when the ABC was, indeed, ours. That was the era of James Dibble reading the seven o’clock news. It was the time of Bill Peach’s crack team of investigative, irreverent young journalists, like the…
by PAUL COLLITS – SIMON Birmingham’s seemingly sudden retirement from politics caught a few people by surprise. He has left the building with the Liberals on the cusp of a possible, equally surprising, return to government in 2025. Birmingham thinks Dutton will…
by PAUL COLLITS – MAINSTREAM media in Australia has become too controlling and needs to be broken up, according to Federal Senator Gerard Rennick. He said politicians and the media were working “hand in hand” to push lies and suppress alternate points…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE American Founding Fathers must have had a reason for granting the president the power to pardon criminals. It’s just not clear now what that might have been. Maybe it was yet another act of creating separations of…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHY the hell is Peter Dutton supporting this obvious Trojan Horse legislation? – The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024. Just when you thought it was safe(ish) to trust the Liberals again, we get this…
by PAUL COLLITS – ALL this looks and feels very familiar. Déjà vu in caps. By now, everyone will know that Alan Jones, former school teacher, Wallabies coach, Malcolm Fraser speechwriter, 2GB radio star, one-time Sky News presenter (until Murdoch’s people shafted…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE just witnessed one of the funniest things I have seen this year. It features US podcaster Joe Rogan, so there is a multiple expletive alert. Rogan thinks Joe Biden voted for Donald Trump. He even “guarantees”…
by PAUL COLLITS – IT IS an unusual week when I have scarcely noticed a US presidential election. That’s what happens when one is close to losing a child, for the second time in a year. No one expected the progressive Democrats…
