by ROGER CROOK – THIS Federal Election play has been inflicted on us many times before – the only thing that changes are the players. The plot always remains the same. The build-up to electing the next Australian government is a tragedy;…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE’S humbug afoot and a lot of nonsense being talked about the 10 per cent tariff US President Donald Trump has placed on Australian exports to America. The consternation being expressed over the effect this may have on…
by ROGER CROOK – In Killarney, Ireland, a lost American tourist pulled up alongside an old man who was fixing a fence on a narrow country lane and asked, “Can you tell me please, how to get to Kilicracken?” The old man…
by ROGER CROOK – US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has decided that many nations who trade with his country, do not trade fairly; he uses his definition of fairness. This statement and the threats of 25 per cent tariffs on Australian steel and…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIA needs a leader that can rattle the cage of complacency in which Australia is trapped. One who can shout “wake up! wake up Australia”. Wake up before you become the “white trash” of Asia, which was forecast…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIAN farmers and miners are battling to survive the Albanese Government’s obsession with a net-zero emissions target. The value and strategic importance of agriculture and mining to Australia has been neglected by both sides of politics for too…
by ROGER CROOK – MULTICULTURALISM in Australia has failed – it is dead. The challenge for Australians is what we must now do to preserve the Australian way of life and whether our political leaders have the courage to do what must…
by ROGER CROOK – THE last time I saw Labor luminary Dr Jim Cairns was in the 1980s on a very cold Saturday morning in a market at St Andrews, up in the hills outside Melbourne. He sat behind an old card…
by ROGER CROOK – IN LIFE, cream rises to the top – the clever people do the jobs which clever people do, while the rest of us get on, as best we can, with whatever our calling happens to be. Fresh milk…
by ROGER CROOK – BEN Chifley was no ordinary Prime Minister; he had come through the Labor ranks the hard way. A train driver by profession and driven (no pun intended), like his predecessor John Curtin, he had experienced a world war,…
