Paul Collits - Politics, Policy, Political Views

Paul Collits is Politicom’s Senior Political Commentator. He is a freelance writer and independent researcher who lives in Lismore, NSW. He has worked in government, industry and the university sector, and has taught at tertiary level in three disciplines – politics, geography and planning & business studies. He also contributes to Substack – https://paulcollits.substack.com/

Pandemic 2.0 in final planning phase

On : 27/08/202312/09/2023- by Paul Collits- No Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – LEFTIST politicians are manoeuvring to bring back masking and other pandemic hardships as early as September, to fight off an alleged new COVID strain. Will the word “plandemic” become any more widely used, for example in the legacy…

Insane elites outraged by dissent

On : 25/08/202311/09/2023- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – THOSE who questioned the power of the State and were sceptical of its claims were once taken seriously, even lauded – whereas now they’re routinely pilloried by those under the State’s thumb. I had never heard of Kelly…

Taxed for things never asked for – nor consented to

On : 18/08/202305/09/2023- by Paul Collits- No Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – THE other day, I received a letter from the New Zealand Electoral Commission informing me of my voting rights in relation to the forthcoming Kiwi election. They have not registered that I left the Shaky Isles in 2018…

Hanson loses plot on Ashby’s LGBTQ advice

On : 16/08/202303/09/2023- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – INTERNAL political Party brawls are every bit as tedious within One Nation as when they occur in the major Parties. “If she is worried about under-performance, her best solution is to buy a mirror.” This was Mark Latham’s…

Labor’s lies, damned lies & the Voice

On : 14/08/202329/08/2023- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

What is truth?’ – Pontius Pilate, John 18:38 by PAUL COLLITS – THOSE with long memories may recall Peter Costello dancing the macarena on the Kerri-Anne Kennerley show in 1996, several political generations and, seemingly, a lifetime ago. Simpler times, in many…

Albanese on track as worst PM – hands down

On : 12/08/202327/08/2023- by Paul Collits- 21 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – THE Albanese Government is on track to be a one term government. The odds are shortening – considerably. If this government is that bad – and it is – perhaps we might have a fresh candidate in the…

It’s nuclear war, stupid!

On : 09/08/202325/08/2023- by Paul Collits- No Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – SOCRATES was once said to have opined that the unexamined life is not worth living. Well, if that’s the case, there are now billions of lives not worth the genes they are printed on. Think of the world’s…

Modern democracy a total con job

On : 04/08/202321/08/2023- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – ARE we witnessing the death of democracy? Actually, the question should, rather, be framed as, have we already seen the death of democracy? The editor of the UK’s Sunday Telegraph, Allister Heath, writes of contemporary Britain: “Britain’s deranged…

Mean girl Gallagher just got meaner

On : 02/08/202301/09/2023- by Paul Collits- 3 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – FRESH from her strategic involvement in the low rent Brittany Higgins scandal, Labor Minister Katy Gallagher is now hell bent on rolling out a digital ID system for Australia. To be operational by mid-2024. As always, the proposed…

Andrews’ long history of playing games

On : 01/08/202316/08/2023- by Paul Collits- 1 Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – THE new NSW Premier, Chris Minns, hasn’t, so far, embraced a bromance with his southern counterpart in the weird way his Liberal predecessor, Dominic Perrottet, did. Chris Minns’ good buddy, the endlessly acerbic and coarse Sydney breakfast radio…