by THE SPECTATOR – IT IS quite extraordinary that tiny-minded, useful idiot activism has reached the point where anti-Australia Day radicals want to cut down colonial trees as an act of protest. All the while believing that we are in the middle…
by PAUL COLLITS – SCOTT Morrison has been cosying up to Donald Trump. He spent New Year’s Eve with the Trumps at Mar-a-Lago. This is the same Scott Morrison who, in 2021, used $2b of Australian taxpayers’ money to bring a Moderna…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FAMOUS line from an old Australian film was my first thought when I heard Labor’s latest renewable energy pipe dream – a $2b subsidy for “green aluminium”. “Tell him he’s dreaming” was uttered by Darryl Kerrigan’s main…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to force all local councils to hold citizenship ceremonies on January 26 — Australia Day. “I don’t want us to be divided. I want us to stand up for what we…
by FRED PAWLE – THE Australian Defence Force is so feeble it can’t even hit its own recruitment targets. It has fallen short every year since 2012, and now sits at a total of 59k personnel, a massive 21k short of its…
by PAUL COLLITS – ONE of the many unforgivable things the Liberals did in government was to allow the censorship of free speech, executed ironically by Peter Dutton’s then Home Affairs bureaucrats. The Liberal Party had got itself into a tizz over…
A VERY dear friend was diagnosed with COVID before Christmas. She had a sore throat. She was either prescribed or advised to take a Pfizer “anti-viral”. She then became seriously ill. The same thing happened to a friend of hers. Big Pharma…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA has no leader of sufficient charisma and brand recognition to unite its disparate Right-of-centre micro Parties. Absent unity and popular appeal, conservative voters are doomed to the Liberal Party model of almost equally numbered, warring moderate and…
by FRED PAWLE – DESPITE the bleakness of our current outlook, it’s crucial to remember that the best way to defeat tyrants is to not take them too seriously. For all his literary brilliance, George Orwell wasn’t great at irony. His use…
by FRED PAWLE – THEY might disagree about the dangers of coal, but federal ministers Penny Wong and Tanya Plibersek share an enthusiasm for idiotic social media posts. Environment Minister Tania Plibersek says Australia is saving the planet by banning coal. Meanwhile,…
