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/

Saving the Liberal left?

On : 24/05/202206/06/2022- by Paul Collits- 1 Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is nothing like a very long, very tedious election campaign that totally ignores the pain of the truly dispossessed to further tick off the already disgruntled. That the number of pre-poll votes cast trebled the already large…

Poll vendetta as ‘grumps’ lash out

On : 23/05/202204/06/2022- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – AND so to the recriminations. For the ABC “squad”, it was always going to be described as “the climate election”. Well, they would say that. Yet for at least 90 per cent of the electorate, it was not…

Liberal & Labor equally despised

On : 23/05/202203/06/2022- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, thank God the bread and circuses are over for another three years of utterly bastardised representative democracy. This is an idea whose time has well and truly gone. Now come the recriminations, blame games, useful narratives and…

Parties offer fake policies & false hope

On : 19/05/202228/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 6 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – THE most recent Roy Morgan poll shows the majors on an anemic 34 per cent each of the primary vote and a whopping 32 per cent for minor Parties and independents. Despite the fact that as many people…

Voters abandon ‘deceptive’ democracy

On : 13/05/202224/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 3 Comments.

ONE Nation’s Pauline Hanson has been forced by the Australian Electoral Commission to take down a satirical cartoon about voter fraud. As reported by Sky News: “The AEC has ordered Pauline Hanson to pull her popular political cartoon series from social media…

Premier’s ‘heartless’ response to drowning city

On : 13/05/202213/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 3 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – IF YOU walk around the streets of Lismore, as I do, you will see and hear lots of nothing. Yes, the proprietors at our local shopping centre, completely inundated in February, are bravely returning with limited spaces and…

John Howard’s ‘ungodly’ church

On : 10/05/202209/09/2022- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – SIR Robert Menzies spoke at length about the importance of faith in politics, something that many mainstream Australians would wholeheartedly endorse. The Liberal Party founder said “human nature is greatest when it combines dependence upon God with independence…

‘Immorality’ puts Libs in crosshairs

On : 07/05/202222/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 1 Comment

by PAUL COLLITS – THE Australian Christian Lobby has a very clear strategy for the 2022 federal election. It is targeting candidates and not Parties. It is attempting to get more members in the parliament that are sympathetic to Christian families, values…

Time to punish major Parties

On : 05/05/202213/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 5 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – AN AUTHOR of my acquaintance has just co-written a book about Scott Morrison. A very good book (reviewed recently in Politicom), though not pleasant reading for members of the Liberal Party or Liberal voters. The author says he…

The silence of the wolves

On : 03/05/202219/05/2022- by Paul Collits- 4 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – OF SEVERAL things that struck me about Rebecca Weisser’s memorable piece on the “leper vote” of unvaccinated deplorables and other sundry COVID dissidents, one line in particular stood out. “Even federal Health Minister Greg Hunt quietly dropped the…