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/

Perrottet tempers Lib’s lurch to Left

On : 21/12/202118/02/2022- by Paul Collits- 14 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – PREMIER Dominic Perrottet has many children. And there is one more on the way. So, no shortages of challenges at home. A high-pressure environment. He also has a lot of pressure in his day job, as his first…

Variant scam making rich richer

On : 16/12/202112/01/2022- by Paul Collits- 9 Comments.

IT TOOK me about two weeks in March 2020 to figure out that, however it began and whether anyone was “behind it”, COVID was a scam. Nearly two years on, we are still thrashing around in the COVID swamp, all of the…

Keep kicking & screaming, George!

On : 15/12/202118/02/2022- by Paul Collits- 7 Comments.

THE gaslighting of retiring federal MP George Christensen by senior Coalition figures in Canberra is a disgrace. It is also very, very dumb politics. When they bully Christensen, they bully a now quite large and ever-expanding freedom movement which has had a…

Who could ever trust Gladys again?

On : 09/12/202123/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 6 Comments.

by PAUL COLLITS – WHO’DA thought? I figured I had written my last article on the recently departed NSW premier. She has hardly left the building first time round and she is, apparently, being forced on us again. Morrison said Berejiklian hadn’t…

Academics without intellect – but plenty of cash

On : 08/12/202121/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 15 Comments.

AUSTRALIA’s ageing professors might be sans frontiers (without borders), in terms of the infinite subjects over which they range and on which they claim expertise, and the disparate forms of media they now embrace. But they are also, seemingly, without arguments and…

Perrottet passes first big test

On : 07/12/202121/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 17 Comments.

A BRAVE cohort of minor-Party politicians and would-be politicians have dared to oppose the COVID cult and the imposition of vaccine mandates. These include Mark Latham, Pauline Hanson, David Limbrick, Craig Kelly, George Christensen, Fred Nile, Campbell Newman and Malcolm Roberts. The…

Virtue signallers let loose on unvaxxed

On : 02/12/202115/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 6 Comments.

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. …

Aboriginals seized in vaccine round-up

On : 30/11/202113/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

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…

Lies, damned lies & COVID statistics

On : 23/11/202107/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 5 Comments.

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…

Vitriol & humiliation replace mateship

On : 22/11/202105/12/2021- by Paul Collits- 1 Comment

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…