THERE are two kinds of vaccine virtue signalling. The obvious one is everywhere to be seen in the current vaccine dictatorships across the globe. The abuse meted out to the vaccine “refuseniks” has been relentless. The insults (stupid, selfish, granny-killer). The threats. …
THE Northern Territory often produces a vague sense of unease due to its climate, desert landscape, remoteness and isolation. You wouldn’t venture far off the main highways. The Territory is also a focal point for the culture wars in view of its…
by PAUL COLLITS – AT THE time of writing, around 70 per cent of Australians were fully vaccinated against COVID. Put another way, the proportion of Australians being relentlessly insulted, bullied, gaslit, demonised, isolated and threatened is approaching one third. By no…
AT LEAST some of the vitriol aimed at the vaccination refuseniks relates to the so-called free rider problem. The populist tone of much of the push for mass vaccinations to thwart COVID has the ring of Aussie jingoism. We are a nation…
AFTER the sad demise of the previous NSW premier, I thought, well, one eastern State’s unspellable spinster-premier is gone, one to go. The then State of Origin contest over who could be the more ghastly premier came to an end after ICAC’s…
THE now daily revelations at NSW ICAC are providing satisfying sport for those who wish to see Gladys’s downfall made permanent, or, perhaps, simply wish to see alleged petty corruption exposed. It must make painful viewing and reading for those who see…
IT IS fashionable to have an informal law named after someone relevant to the circumstances giving rise to the “law”. Often, sadly, they emerge from tragedy. Chloe’s Law in NSW relates to the implementation of protections for the victims of physical and…
LET me get this straight. Mayors in regional NSW are afraid of fully vaccinated Sydneysiders visiting their low-vaccinated regions. The double jabbed are the lucky folks who now get to travel (legally) again out of Sydney, as of November 1, 2021. The…
IN AN age of Everest-scale policy challenges and Lilliputian leaders, one can only think, what would Margaret do? The COVID era has thrown up third rate chancer-politicians whose careers are mostly rehearsals for their post-politics money-making and global-stage prancing. Thatcher was shunted…
WITH thanks to the late David Bowie and the polymath Brian Eno, we are reminded of what it means to be called to heroic virtue, the traditional measure of sainthood. I, I will be king And you, you will be queen Though…
