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,…
by ROGER CROOK – THERE are at least two people in Australia today who have the power and, I think, the fundamental ability to cause change – all they have to do is use it. Should they rise to the challenge they…
by ROGER CROOK – DO THE latest opinion polls indicate that more than a few Australians are suffering from voter remorse? Most of us have experienced buyer remorse. The heart overrules the head for a moment; a rash act is often followed…
by ROGER CROOK – GOD help us if communist China becomes more restless. How on earth did Australia, a nation with a proud military history, finish up with a modern version of Dad’s Army? We are being told we are closer to…
