by PAUL COLLITS – WE’VE had neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism, neither of which has much advanced the interests of ordinary people. Neo-conservatives give us endless wars with (literally) no outcomes other than the advancement of what President Eisenhower termed the military industrial complex. …
by PAUL COLLITS – IMPERIALISM has been going on ever since man discovered transportation to cross the high seas. It reached its peak, coincidentally or not, in the age of the industrial revolution, the enlightenment and the invention of modern capitalism. We…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Liberal Party has “blocked” – whatever that means and whatever gives them the right to so do – the candidacy of Noel McCoy in the seat of Castle Hill, a pre-selection he was expected to win…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE list of sins of Australian cricket’s administrators and its practitioners is long and impressive. Where to start? One statistic might help to set the scene. During the COVID “pandemic”, Cricket Australia announced that, reluctantly, it had to…
by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, blow me down with a feather. Victoria’s dictator, the seemingly unassailable Daniel Andrews, has forcefully declared that “COVID exceptionalism” is over. And one of Victoria’s go-to, tame academics, Catherine Bennett, who was regularly wheeled out to frighten…
by PAUL COLLITS – BACK in the day, there was a pact between elected politicians and those who put them in office. They did our bidding. They exercised power in our interests. They were, in other words “accountable”. They limited their actions…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party will continue its trajectory to political oblivion if it fails to find new and substantial talent in the next electoral cycle. One opportunity for an infusion of new blood occurs in the seat of Castle…
by PAUL COLLITS – IN ESSENCE, so-called conspiracy theories are plausible explanations of exceptional events, based on the long-accepted assumption that deeply inter-connected governments and corporates routinely have hidden agendas, cover things up, collude and lie. Indeed, those of us who have…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE question of forgiveness has raised its head this week, in the context of post-COVID reparations for the victims of heavy-handed policy, police brutality and loss of employment. It’s one part of the “move on” movement, the urge…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is nothing quite like a woke, sporting sponsorship mishmash to get people bleating platitudes and hypocrisy and avoiding the real issue. If you thought the netball nonsense was put to bed following Gina Rhinehart’s brilliant decision to…
