by PAUL COLLITS – THE recent, unnerving revelations by Politicom’s Sean Burke about unvaccinated Environment Protection Authority staff being forced out of their jobs were jolting for many in NSW. It begs the question, just how widespread are employment-related vaccine mandates in…
BACK in the day, real (State) police used mockingly to call the Australian Federal Police the “plastic police”, such was its reputation for useless endeavour, surplus to requirement, and with toothless capability. In recent decades, the AFP’s most noteworthy contributions to Australian…
IAN Chappell was a peerless captain and has provided cricket tragics – whether readers, viewers, or (now) listeners – with searingly honest analysis of the game for many decades. Perhaps his most perceptive insight was his claim that a cricket coach should…
by PAUL COLLITS – KARL Marx famously said that history always repeats, first as tragedy then as farce. As always, and right on cue, the Scott Morrison-led Government emerged from its bunker to speak truth to Marx’s maxim, only to deliver a…
THE recent announcement by Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt that he is retiring at the forthcoming election is noteworthy. His explanation for his exit from politics was the usual cover-all – “to spend more time with family”. This might be true, but…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE conservative stalwart broadcaster Mark Steyn has made the suggestion, in apparent seriousness, that the British Tories should draft Tony Abbott as the next leader of the Conservative Party. Mark’s interviewee at the time, Kathy Gyngell, editor of…
THAT popular Aussie stalwart actor, Ray Meagher (of Home and Away fame) has taken in his autumn years to advertising a product called Revitive, claimed to be a circulation booster. The increasingly out-of-touch “leaders” of various Australian jurisdictions should have poached Ray…
by PAUL COLLITS – AMID all the keystrokes spent upon Novak Djokovic’s appalling deportation from the penal colony that is contemporary Australia, the following words rang most true, and, at the same time, provided an idea. This is Kit Knightly at Off…
DEAR Premier, So, now we are in the age of geographical gaslighting. Bullying by postcode. Well done, Mr Perrottet and your little friend at The Australian (one Rhiannon Down, who has a tag on her twitter account “get vaxxed asap”). I see…
TYPE-casting and then bagging those who choose not to get a COVID jab is an emerging sub-genre of journalism, or what passes for it. Those who provide commentary and who write columns are especially prone to give in to what is clearly…
