by PAUL COLLITS – TONY Abbott is an easy man to like. It was always surprising to me that he was often reviled, certainly during his time in Parliament. The last time I bumped into Tony Abbott was at one of those…
by PAUL COLLITS – HISTORY repeats, first as tragedy then as farce, as Anthony Albanese’s guiding mentor Karl Marx once stated. I couldn’t help but notice one of Freebie Albanese’s more recent indiscretions. With a political tin ear that is hard to…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE old Queensland tourism pitch needs to be updated to “Labor tyranny one day, squishy Liberal the next”. Queensland Labor was appalling on every level. And because there is no upper house north of the Tweed, governments can…
by PAUL COLLITS – APPARENTLY, we celebrated United Nations Day this month. I only know this because it was brought up in the Prayers of the Faithful during Mass last week. We were asked to pray for the UN, especially this week,…
by PAUL COLLITS – HAVING twice faced the serious possibility of losing my daughter this year, I can only imagine the anguish of those who have actually participated in the death their own child – only later to be remorseful. TV’s Father…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHAT will future historians know and think about the 2020s? Will there even be historians in the future? I once asked Professor Ian Plimer why he persisted in engaging in rational debate over climate change, when his opponents…
by PAUL COLLITS – PARENTS of a certain age who read bedtime stories to their children might recall Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen. Not being considered a thought crime, it has probably escaped the modern, woke publisher’s scalpel. Maybe there…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHATEVER else has happened this week past, there is one story above all others that has captured the attention of the disgruntled outsider class. Forget about the now routine Trump assassination attempts, Hezbollah rockets raining down on Northern…
by PAUL COLLITS – WHEN Donald Trump said “fight” in Butler Pennsylvania late July, everyone cheered. Being the target of an assassination attempt (twice, now) certainly galvanises the troops. They will fight by voting for the Republican candidate on November 5, ensuring…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIANS are seeing a wholesale shift in power from the parents to the State. The political elites are now saying they no longer trust parents to supervise their children’s social media use. But this is merely a bonus….
