by FRED PAWLE – FOREIGN Minister Penny Wong is clinging to a USAID model of sending billions of taxpayer dollars to opaque woke projects in poor countries. One of the intangible benefits of Donald Trump slashing tens of billions of dollars from…
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 NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – PETER Dutton has vowed to scrap major Labor policies – including climate change initiatives – as PM Anthony Albanese calls a May 3 federal election. In his official budget reply, the Opposition Leader said Coalition policies would…
by FRED PAWLE – THE orgy of nostalgia for the glory days of COVID – five years ago this month – confirms that most journalists and their “expert” friends still don’t understand life outside their own bubble. Whenever the mainstream media marks…
by FRED PAWLE – OF ALL Australia’s vulnerabilities at the moment, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s woefully inadequate understanding of high-stakes gambling is the most dangerous. As a gambler, PM Albanese is more like the bloke who hits the pokies after a couple…
by VIV FORBES – A SPIRIT of madness exists in today’s Labor-led bureaucracy – the bureaucratic instinct is to kill every animal in any threatened herd to ensure all sick ones die. There’s a fatal flaw in the scorched earth disease control…
by FRED PAWLE – IS THERE no problem in the world that European leaders – and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese – can’t make worse? The European Commissioners – who two months ago were building a new renewable energy grid to save…
by MONICA O’SHEA – PRIME Minister Anthony Albanese has called for four-year fixed election terms in Australia, a move that would keep incumbents in power longer. His comments come as speculation grows over when the next federal election will be called, with…
by FRED PAWLE – PENNY Wong has unveiled her plan to help India produce renewable energy and in return receive hordes of unskilled migrants. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can’t believe his luck. The Foreign Minister has probably never sat in the…
by MICHAEL de PERCY – AFTER three years of the worst government in Australian history, it isn’t the cost-of-living crisis, the divided society, reduced productivity or the increased public spending ailing Albanese. It’s not even Tony Burke’s spurious use of citizenship ceremonies…
