by PAUL COLLITS – THE other day, when one of my grandchildren (optimistically) stated that what separates humans from animals is rational decision-making, I reached for the phone and pulled up one of those excellent videos on the brilliant problem-solving skills of…
by PAUL COLLITS – I HAVE the misfortune to live in a local government area with an atrocious city council. Despite huge rates, the uses of which no one in Lismore can readily identify, the place is down at heel, with uncleared…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is now two Parties masquerading as one. It can’t survive – and it doesn’t deserve to. A very clever and insightful Australian citizen podcaster, Damian Coory (The Other Side), recently demonstrated the perversity that is…
by PAUL COLLITS – IF EVER an organisation was bereft of decency, it is the morally and electorally pathetic Victorian Liberal Party. To adapt a phrase much now in the news again, they are waging a veritable jihad on decency. The only…
by PAUL COLLITS – THIS week, The Beach Boys musician Brian Wilson died – and Vishwash Jumar Ramesh didn’t. Go figure. A lot of people have been saying that Ramesh should buy a lottery ticket. Most would agree that Brian had probably…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is no rational basis to net-zero, even if you do believe in climate change fantasy. This is accepted by anyone remotely in tune with reality. Recently, two excellent Australians did an interview on the madness of net-zero…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE with a good memory and an eye to American politics will recall, with ease, the personnel chaos that was the Trump 1.0 administration. Some of the appointments to key posts were embarrassments, the internecine wars were the…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE non-event that is the Liberal Party still seems to be the story in Australian politics. Even as three-term Albo continues going about his quiet Marxist revolution, for which he thinks he has a mandate. A landslide without…
by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the recent passing of the philosopher of moral virtue, Alasdair MacIntyre, thoughts have turned to other thinkers who viewed the world in similar fashion, back in MacIntyre’s day. I didn’t have to look far along the bookshelf…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE following is my eulogy at my daughter’s recent Memorial Mass. I post it by way of thanks to all those readers who have supported me with prayers and good wishes. I will get to all the previous…
