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…
by Paul Collits – WHO actually needs euthanasia when you have COVID? This is a question that should be asked, as the NSW parliament is now moving very much closer to considering the latest in the wave of “voluntary assisted dying” bills…
FORGIVE the absence of party poppers, streamers and balloons. NSW’s so-called “freedom day” is a croc and an insult. It is nothing short of Orwellian newspeak. It is a lie, repeatedly told and somehow believed, celebrated, gloated over. There are alternate names…
PERHAPS NSW should be renamed “The Premiers’ State”. We have had our fill of them since the largely achievement-free but cleverly-crafted-to-look-impressive, decade-long reign of Bob Carr. The list is almost endless – Morris Iemma, Nathan Rees, Kristina Keneally, Barry O’Farrell, Mike Baird,…
by PAUL COLLITS – RIGHT-of-centre politicians seemingly still crave some sort of approval from their sworn political enemies. We have given up on truth. We have legislated it out of existence. “AT ALL costs, let me not be accused of being a…
